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Check out my Willy! Miner Willy that is, in this expanded remake of Matthew Smith's classic ZX  Spectrum game. Play all twenty original caverns  from the Spectrum version  or select to play the twenty brand new ones - or mix it up a bit and let the game decide what screens you're going to play! You can even play with subdued lighting, darkening the caverns and using the light from Willy's hard hat.

Here's the story from the original cassette inlay:

Miner Willy, while prospecting down Surbiton way, stumbles upon an ancient, long forgotten mine-shaft. On further exploration, he finds evidence of a lost civilisation far superior to our own, which used automatons to dig deep into the Earth's core to supply the essential raw materials for their advanced industry. After centuries of peace and prosperity, the civilisation was torn apart by war, and lapsed into a long dark age, abandoning their industry and machines. Nobody, however, thought to tell the mine robots to stop working, and through countless eons they had steadily accumulated a huge stockpile of valuable metals and minerals, and Miner Willy realises that he now has the opportunity to make his fortune by finding the underground store. 

In order to move to the next chamber, you must collect all the flashing keys in the room while avoiding nasties like POISONOUS PANSIES and SPIDERS and SLIME and worst of all, MANIC MINING ROBOTS. When you have all the keys, you can enter the portal which will now be flashing. The game ends when you have been 'got' or fallen heavily three times.

Updated 16 hours ago
Published 2 days ago
StatusReleased
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorLangford Productions
GenrePlatformer
Tagsjet-set-willy, miner-willy, spectrum

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Manic Miner.zip 32 MB

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Brilliant as always.

very good

Brilliant version, this is my tribute, thank you.

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Niiece :-)

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This is absolutely fantastic!  I've only properly played the extra levels so far, which are fiendishly designed, and loving every moment of it.

It's brilliant that each mode (original/extra/mixed) has it's own music - and especially that the extra levels have the "Technician Ted" music!

This is my favourite kind of remake - it has the original game but then builds on it with new content and features.  If you enjoy 8-bit platformers then I can't recommend this highly enough.

Thanks for the kind comments - and anyone with a Charlie Brown icon is one of life's good'uns in my book!