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Fun fact: The Lost Vikings was created by Silicon Synapse. They were later renamed "Blizzard Entertainment" and went on to make Warcraft/Starcraft. The Vikings are now featured in Blizzard's game Heroes of the Storm: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/the-lost-vikings/

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And you can download the original for free, along with a couple of other Blizzard classics: https://us.battle.net/account/download/?show=classic

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"The Lost Viking" also appears as a game-in-a-game. It's an arcade console in the bar on the Hyperion. It is a playable 2D scrolling shooter that features a Viking (the SC2 unit) shooting through waves of pattern based enemies.

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