The Lost Vikings

SNES, Genesis, Other, Windows +61993

  1. JP—
  2. NA1993
  3. EU1993
  4. RU—

The Lost Vikings used the same name everywhere it was released. The easiest legal way to play it today is the Blizzard Arcade Collection (Switch, PC, PS4, Xbox One, 2021), which includes the SNES and Genesis versions and a Definitive Edition that combines them.

The Lost Vikings is a puzzle platformer from Silicon & Synapse, the studio now known as Blizzard Entertainment, published by Interplay Productions. Designer Ron Millar started from a Lemmings-like idea with hundreds of small Vikings, which was cut down to three heroes for consoles. The SNES version came out in North America in April 1993 and in Europe on 28 October 1993, with Amiga and MS-DOS versions the same year.

The Genesis/Mega Drive version of 1994 is the most different: it has five exclusive stages and lets three players control the Vikings at once. Blizzard itself published a Game Boy Advance version in March 2003.

The game later returned twice. In 2014 the MS-DOS version appeared on Battle.net, running in DOSBox, and on 20 February 2021 the Blizzard Arcade Collection brought back the SNES and Genesis versions together with a Definitive Edition.1

Names and releases

RegionTitle on the boxPlatformDatePublisherSrc
NA The Lost Vikings SNES April 1993 Interplay Productions 1
NA The Lost Vikings Genesis January 1994 Interplay Productions 1
EU The Lost Vikings SNES Oct 28, 1993 Interplay Productions 1
EU The Lost Vikings Genesis May 19, 1994 Interplay Productions 1
EU The Lost VikingsAmiga CD32 Other 1994 Interplay Productions 1
WW The Lost VikingsBattle.net, MS-DOS version running in DOSBox Windows 2014 Blizzard Entertainment 1
WW Blizzard Arcade CollectionAlso on PC, PS4 and Xbox One; SNES and Genesis versions plus a Definitive Edition Switch Feb 20, 2021 Blizzard Entertainment 1

Box art by region

  • The Lost Vikings box art, North America release
    NA The Lost Vikings
  • The Lost Vikings box art, Europe release
    EU The Lost Vikings

Box art © its publishers, shown to identify each release. Scans: libretro-thumbnails.

Version differences

  • ContentGenesis

    The Genesis version has five stages found in no other version, for 42 levels against 37 elsewhere.1

  • GameplayGenesis

    Only the Genesis version lets three players play at once, one per Viking.1

  • ContentBlizzard Arcade Collection (2021)

    The Definitive Edition in the 2021 Blizzard Arcade Collection merges the SNES and Genesis versions, including three-player co-op and the extra Genesis levels.1

Reception

Nintendo Power named it the seventh-best SNES game of 1993 and called the gameplay "deep and compelling". IGN gave the SNES version 8.5/10 and later ranked it 30th in its top 100 SNES games.1

Sources

  1. 1en.wikipedia.org

Checked: 2026-10-13Text reviewed: 2026-10-13

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