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A demonstration of the game is provided in a number of videos on [Scott]’s YouTube account, which shows off a few levels, at 256×256 resolution. It contains all 20 ...
Manic Miner is a little zx spectrum game that is about a little miner dude called willy. The main aim of the game is to collect keys while avoiding traps and enemies, and, still to this day, it is ...
Pac-Manic Miner Man was written in 2012 by Jim Bagley to run the classic ZX Spectrum Game Manic Miner on Pac-Man Arcade hardware, a long time ambition of his was to write an arcade game on arcade ...
A new Spectrum went on sale this week, evoking a golden era of British computing - a time when cassette tapes were hip, lengthy loading times perfectly acceptable, and a tiny 48KB was enough memory to ...
Back in 1983, a little game by the name of Manic Miner hit the ZX Spectrum system in Europe. Can't say for sure if this game qualifies as a "classic," considering that it never really made it big in ...
Looking back from a world of smartphones and Xboxes, it’s astonishing that such a commercially successful product could have happened with this unglamorous and flawed piece of equipment. Yes, I’m a ...
Older gamers and students of history might recall the ZX Spectrum, a primarily UK-based console from the early 1980s. Even so, you might not know the patchy history of Willy's Great Adventure, first ...
In the U.K., the iconic 8-bit home computer of the 1980s was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Few keyboards have surely been pounded as hard as the Spectrum’s rubberised complement of grey rectangles.
A demonstration of the game is provided in a number of videos on [Scott]’s YouTube account, which shows off a few levels, at 256×256 resolution. It contains all 20 ...