Manic Miner is a platform, released 1 May 1983 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer System and Commodore 16.
What Manic Miner is
Manic Miner was released in 1983. It was published by Bug Byte. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore Plus/4, Dragon 32/64, MSX, Tatung Einstein and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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 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 numerous home computers, video game consoles, and mobile phones.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Manic Miner holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1983 averaged 75, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Cheats and codes
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Official trailer
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Quick answers
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