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In a terrifying dystopian future framed by the milieu of a totalitarian police state, Arnie Schwarzenegger is impelled into the limelight as The Running Man aka Ben Richards, a police helicopter pilot ensnared and incarcerated for the digitally faked massacre of a group of civilians in Bakersfield, California. This lands Ben in a secure labour camp prison and ultimately on the even more oppressive set of The Running Man game show where he's coerced into fighting for his life by unscrupulous, slimy host, Damon Killian, for the sake of sport and entertainment. Once thrust into the claustrophobic game zone, a dilapidated, forsaken area of Los Angeles ravaged by an earthquake, Ben must defend himself from contrived tournament encounters with various professional combatants known as stalkers. Can he survive long enough to rescue his fellow inmates and expose the hypocrisy and corruption of the ICS TV network?

Two years on in 1989, a multi-format action-platform Running Man gaming adaptation emerged courtesy of Emerald Software. As in the movie, Arnie roams a gutted landscape infested with pernicious gladiators slathering at the prospect of painting the streets red with his internals. Upon reaching the TV studio we endure further onslaughts from attack dogs and their guard handlers before finally coming face to face with the orchestrator of our live-broadcasted misery, Damon Killian.