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).
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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. 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.