Championship Lode Runner on the Commodore 64 is a brutally difficult follow-up to Lode Runner, offering 50 new levels hand-crafted by expert players and contest winners, aimed squarely at veterans of the original. You still control a lone runner collecting all the gold in each single-screen maze while dodging relentlessly pursuing guards and using your ability to dig temporary holes in the platforms to trap enemies or create escape routes. However, the layouts are far more devious, demanding long, pre-planned sequences of moves, pixel-perfect timing, and intimate knowledge of how guards behave and how dug holes regenerate. There’s no level editor or difficulty scaling here—just a pure “master’s course” in Lode Runner logic and reflexes.