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Manic Miner is a little zx spectrum game that is about a little miner dude called willy. The main aim of the game is to collect keys while avoiding traps and enemies, and, still to this day, it is ...

After 28 years of neglect, Willy’s Great Adventure: ZX Spectrum has arrived on mobile devices, with the full support of Manic Miner creator Matthew Smith. Willy’s Great Adventure: ZX Spectrum was ...

Pac-Manic Miner Man was written in 2012 by Jim Bagley to run the classic ZX Spectrum Game Manic Miner on Pac-Man Arcade hardware, a long time ambition of his was to write an arcade game on arcade ...

Matthew Smith was one of the great, primary-coloured lights of the early UK games industry. He made the ZX Spectrum a very bright place to be in the mid-eighties, before going dark for a very long ...

Older gamers and students of history might recall the ZX Spectrum, a primarily UK-based console from the early 1980s. Even so, you might not know the patchy history of Willy's Great Adventure, first ...

A demonstration of the game is provided in a number of videos on [Scott]’s YouTube account, which shows off a few levels, at 256×256 resolution. It contains all 20 ...