The goal of each stage is to manuever all three of your playable vikings to the exit, collecting the various items and activating the various switches you’ll need to open the path to get there. The game itself is a puzzle platformer, somewhat more heavy on the former than the rather. From there, they travel through time on a quest to return to their own time, having lots of silly arguments with one another on their way.

Escaping from their cells, the vikings battle their way through the ship, and eventually come across a time portal somewhat aboard. Tomator, the alien conquerer who owns the ship, plans to place the Vikings in an alien zoo, which they of course quickly object to. While they sleep, however, they’re captured by a tractor beam and placed aboard a spaceship. Sometime during the age of the vikings, three warriors return to their village after a successful hunt.

It was under this name they’d release one of their first games, and one that makes for a strong start to such a storied developer. In fact, even before they were known as Blizzard, they went under the name Silicon & Synapse. Long before Blizzard became known for their RTSes, their Diabloes, and that one MMO thing they did to try to steal Everquest‘s thunder, Blizzard was known for being a console developer, more than anything else.

The lost vikings controls