Freddy's Rescue Roundup is a 2D DOS based game released in 1984 by IBM. The goal of the game is to collect all of the roadrunners on a particular level in order to advance through the game. Doorways aid in quickly traveling across a level, while enemy robots work against the player's progress.
The development title was Roadrunner Rescue, and it was inspired by the better-known Lode Runner. Freddy — the player's character — was supposed to rescue the roadrunners in the park before the maintenance robots-run-amok disposed them. There was a crude program for editing mazes, but it wasn't in the shipped version, at least partly because IBM felt it made the game too much like Lode Runner.
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