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Manic Miner: Miner Willy
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Manic Miner is an absolute must. It is totally addictive and totally playable. No complex orders/commands/controls, no plot to follow, just get Willy to the exit as fast as possible. Gameplay has never been so good and will never be, a basic simple classic that gave birth to all platformers beyond it, Nintendo should be proud that one of their consoles has been graced by this classic. This is your best chance to find out what everyone was talking about, miss it and you've just slipped the chance on one of the biggest pieces of gaming history. A definite buy!
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In games based on the First Edition of Manic Miner (Bug-Byte, 1983), some blocks in the screen-layout of Room 7 ("Miner Willy meets the Kong Beast" in the original Manic Miner) get corrupted. This is ugly but fairly harmless.
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Despite an absence of nearly 20 years, Manic Miner is returning. Britsoft programmer Jester Interactive has acquired the rights and young, or now old, Miner Willy should be making waves on GBA this spring.
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The series started in 1983 with the release of Manic Miner, and was followed up a year later with Jet Set Willy (one of the best selling video games of all time) and Jet Set Willy II. Another game in the series, The Perils of Willy, was released solely for the Commodore VIC-20.
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This Group is about the classic platform-games Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. More specifically, it's about remakes of these games for computers other than the Sinclair ZX Spectrum for which they were originally written.
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Manic Miner's rooms are stored in memory addresses 45056 to 65535, so although the complete game is stored from 32768 to 65535, there is no need to edit 32768 to 45055 to redesign the caverns! Appendix E contains the odds and sods that I have discovered about addresses 32768 to 45055 (specifically, I have found out about the graphics for Miner Willy, the tunes, the title-screen/Room 19 picture, colour-attributes for title-screen and for the bottom eight rows below the playing-area; the title-screen scrolly and other pieces of text).
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