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Manic Miner: Games
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Manic Miner 3D is a small 'x-playable' game demonstrating the Nudge 2 engine in action. The demo shows off Nudge 2 powering a simple 3rd person platform game. The demo has a fully featured interface and one complete level to play.
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If you remember Captain Pugwash when he was in black and white then you'll ... doubtless recall that the original version of Manic Miner was one of the first platform games ever on the ZX Spectrum. Yep, it really is that old--and boy, does it show. Although most retro rereleases are a breath of fresh air, from a time when gameplay was always more important than graphics, truth be told Manic Miner was looking old-fashioned even before the 80s were over. It was first released in 1983, ironically the same year Mario Bros. came out in arcades, and while that game featured an ultra-controllable character running and leaping all over the shop, Manic Miner's character could only perform a slow uninterruptible jump in a series of 20 single-screen rooms. Matters were helped by a wicked, very British, sense of humour but even that seems to have been lost in this bland, graphically "enhanced" remake.
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On the ZX Spectrum flashing attributes were used to "animate" a Manic Miner logo while loading. Although there was nothing clever about this as such, it was ... the first game ever to have an animated loading screen. A homage to this loading-screen appeared in one episode of the 2005 British sitcom Nathan Barley .
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