The game was originally released for the Super NES in April of 1993, published by Interplay and developed by Silicon & Synapse. Since you can only control one viking at a time, you’ll be jumping from viking to viking frequently so you can maneuver each one individually (if you have a second player, you can control two vikings simultaneously, which does make some of the puzzles easier). You must figure out how to combine these abilities to get past whatever obstacles the level presents. Olaf can use his shield as a hang-glider, for example, while Eric can smash walls by charging head-first into them. Each viking has a different set of abilities. The gameplay involves solving puzzles to get all three vikings to the next teleporter. (There’s also a “time” called Wacky, which is, well, you know… wacky?) There are 37 levels in the SNES version, taking the vikings on adventures in the time of the dinosaurs, ancient Egypt, and the space age. The vikings - Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce, and everybody’s favorite, Olaf the Stout - break out of Tomator’s spaceship and go on a time-travel adventure that spans eons. Tomator, you see, captured these guys because he needed them for his intergalactic zoo. In celebration of the company's 30th anniversary, The Lost Vikings 2 was re-released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as part of the Blizzard Arcade Collection on April 13, 2021.The Lost Vikings was an incredible puzzle platform that featured a scruffy trio of vikings who become displaced in time by an alien emperor named Tomator. The SNES version by Blizzard Entertainment continued the use of the more cartoony graphics style seen in the original game. The releases for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, and Saturn feature pre-rendered 3D graphics, CD music and extensive voice acting provided by Rob Paulsen, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings, and Frank Welker.

The gameplay remains largely the same, though the three Viking characters all have new or modified abilities. The sequel to The Lost Vikings, it features the original three characters plus two new playable characters: Fang the werewolf and Scorch the dragon.

All versions of the game, except the SNES release, were titled Norse by Norsewest: The Return of Lost Vikings. Lost Vikings 2 is a 1997 puzzle-platform game developed by Beam Software and published by Interplay.

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