Manic Miner
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Manic Miner is a platform game written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith. It was published by Bug-Byte in 1983, then later the same year by Software Projects. The first game in the Miner Willy seri
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Miner 2049er
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Miner 2049er is a platform game developed by Big Five Software and published in December 1982 for the Atari 8-bit computers. The player controls Mountie Bounty Bob through multiple levels of a mine, w
Manic Miner
…was published by Bug-Byte in 1983, then later the same year by Software Projects. The first game in the Miner Willy series, the design was inspired by Miner 2049er (1982) for the Atari 8-bit computers. Retro Gamer called Manic Miner one of the most influential platform games of all time, and it has been ported to…
Cover art by Scott Ross depicting Bounty Bob
An Atari 800 computer displaying Caverns of Mars (1981). Miner 2049er programmer Bill Hogue was excited at the opportunity to work with the color capabilities of Atari computers.
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