It blows my mind that I had this game for so long as a child and played it so much yet never got past Eugene's Lair. I remember playing Manic Miner in the playground at school...everyone had to be a particular baddie and walk back and forth while the hero dodged them. Fun times!
You guys can complain all you want about the music but know this: Manic Miner is the first game to ever have ingame music. So personally, I'd cut it some slack.
Well, the first *spectrum* game with in-game music. Anyhow Manic Miner is one of the best games evvveeerrrrr. The thrill of loading this up on the spectrum, and marvelling at its awesomeness is something those in the know will understand....
Wait what? After the final screen it just loops back to the start again? I played this like a million times back in the day and I could never make it past the 4th screen so I never got to see what happens when you finally beat game.
1984, playing this game in my parents living room, mesmerized, fascinated, excited, glued to TV screen, just couldn’t get enough! Thanks for posting. It only took me almost 40 years to find it again :)
Must've been an awesome feeling to make it to the final screen and complete this. Although, kind of disappointing that it just starts again. I always imagined a film crew would turn up at your door, with two girls showering you with kisses, and a fly past over your house. Since I'm never likely to complete it though, I'll still believe that.... LOVED mm and the memories of playing it with my dad. x
For one of the sequels the developers actually ran a challenge and would award anyone who managed to complete the game a prize. Great, only problem was the game was actually impossible to complete due to a bug, and so when someone did do it (after hacking the game themselves to fix the bug) the developers refused to believe them because they knew it was impossible.
@@MrSniperfox29 It's not like these games were good to begin with since Bobby Is Going Home on Atari 2600 had better controls, ESPECIALLY in terms of jumping as well as better music & graphics.
@@ExtremeWreck Lies, these games (when they worked) were brilliant. And I should hope the 2600 had better graphics than a game released on a Spectrum as the 2600 had three times the ROM the spectrum did at the time.
@@MrSniperfox29 That's just your opinion honestly. I mean, this game is overrated in my eyes. The exploration aspect would've made it a decent game to play if it not for the tedious jumping controls & inconsistent platform collisions. Not to mention the level design is CLEARLY not made for those bad jumping controls in mind. In my eyes, it didn't age well. Now Donkey Kong had the same jumping controls, but the level design was made with that kind of jump in mind, so it made for a better experience. Same for Pitfall on Atari 2600. Octolris wasn't made for those jumping controls in mind, nor Blinky 3, but they gave you a bit of mercy by making it so that there are plenty of health pickups & a lot of space to use for most of the game until you get to near the end of the game. Meanwhile with Manic Miner, it clearly just didn't seem to go right. Not much room for error when it comes to jumping, moving too slow & stiff, plus the platform collisions being inconsistent made for an ultra-hard platformer & NOT for good reasons. I can respect the effort to make the game, but clearly Matthew Smith should've at least considered making the jumping controls a little easier. If the jumping controls(and honestly, the rest of the controls) were to have been improved, including the ability to move mid-air, then it would've been a decent game; not a great game per se, but a fun little game for its time. Sadly though, we never got to see what that version could've been & instead he just took it to the publisher, Bug Byte Software, as it is now. Thankfully, due to Super Mario Bros. releasing about 2 years later, it would mean that this game would NEVER see an official release here in the States, lest it would've gotten VERY & understandably negative reviews.
@@ExtremeWreck Again, you are trying to bring up more powerful consoles so yes, they will be better. Sorry if you weren't very good at the game, but hey, must be an American thing. After all you never got Super Mario Bros 2 (the real one) because they thought it would be too difficult for you.
"With the proceeds of Styx I went on a skiing holiday to Italy with Patrick, the son of a family friend who had the same wacky sense of humour as me. I bought a red notebook in which I drew all the screens for Manic Miner - when I returned home, I spent eight weeks programming the game. I programmed mainly at night because my TRS-80 development machine crashed every time anyone put the kettle on. Nobody had heard of spike suppressors or uninterruptable power supplies. And Patrick? He's now a hypnotherapist in Kingston-Upon-Thames." -- Matthew Smith (game designer, programmer and graphic artist - Manic Miner)
My all time favourite game ,and how difficult was this game ,come to think of it ,most spectrum games were rock hard . Matthew Smith was only a kid when he created this masterpiece , genius to know his way around a computer at such a young age
Game was so hard! From memory i don't think i got past the phones. Nice to see the final result. On Jet Set Willy i was happy to find a new room after several hundred plays. The game objective never mattered. lol.
This was the era before Speccy ganes became film or coin-op conversion rip off based. The early games had character and quirkiness along with originality. The music and sound effects in this game are really special; the completion sound for each level is brilliant and I have never heard anything like it before or since. The whole game is just pure class and one of a kind. Long live the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!
True. The last years were a bit ridiculous with the Z80 trying to replicate what was done by coin ops with twin 68000's and custom hardware. The speccy managed some impressive things in its time, but there's no way that £120 quids worth of 8 year old digital beer mat can keep up with that.
as a kid I thought that main character is a bear with one broken ear ...:) (i didnt understand english title then) now, 30 years later, I see he is a miner with the lamp on his helmet ... ;)
Roblox take a back seat this was 1983@ and 38 years later nothing is better or harder than this great game I wore my cassette player out playing these games lol.
This is the first game I played on my ZX Spectrum. I only ever got to the 16th level playing as normal. I completed the game using the unlimited lives 'poke'. Even with unlimited lives I died loads of time on the solar power generator (it kept taking all my air off me with the beam). Really classic game.
mr magoo yea. The vat was as far as I got. Me and a mate playing this after school in Wales on cold dark nights and that was just the summer. How we didn't turn into goths, bum each other and slit our own wrists is beyond me..... That fuckin music... Turn it off!!!!
When I played it back in the day, for some reason I thought that they were combine harvesters. As if that'd make more sense than toilets. I later realised / found out that they were toilets. The disconnect sometimes between the items that Miner Willy collects and the enemies in the level was like Dadaism or something - the collectable in that level appears to be bricks. One brilliant, brilliant, thing about Manic Miner is that, on 20 single screens, they all had an entirely different feel. That is some dedication towards world building that was mightily impressive. Each level really was a fiendish puzzle of timing, route planning, and reflexes- frustratingly so after about level 11. It was surreal but in the best British way of that - with logic to it- really superb level design and foreboding use of large sprites against the tiny Miner Willy. And the Pythonesque foot and the deliberately out of tune title screen all helped to make it too.
Thanks for sharing the playthrough. Such nostalgia, even though I played it on a different system (Amstrad CPC464). I remember the first 5 levels in this video, so that's probably how far I originally got in the game. However, for some reason, I also remember the Solar Power Generator, but I don't know why. My friend owned the Amstrad, so it was probably him that got that far in the game. I definitely remember seeing the light beam bouncing around :-)
If you type '6031769' whilst the game is playing, a boot appears where the spare lives are. You can then hold down 6 and a combination of other keys to get to levels you aren't that good at so you can practice them. You won't get the fish and dagger at the end if you do this though. This hack works with the Fuse emulator for Mac as well. I wish they made 'em like this again! The ZX Spectrum was the equivalent of today's Raspberry Pi, I suppose.
Yeah and every time you get to the new level you have hardly any lives available to learn the new level followed by a huge journey to get back there once those lives are gone.
There's something about nostalgia. I ditched a PS4 and went back to a 90s original PlayStation. Now, I am considering going back again to the Speccy. Manic Miner, what a great game. One of my favourites.
I spent my life trying to learn the timings of every room! Why? I got to about Cavern 13 then the download codes came out! Had they not I’d still only be up to about Cavern 15!
Christmas day my dad and me thought my rubber keyed spectrum was broke despite having the audio leads plugged in there was no iconic lines on screen or sound to indicate a game was loading tape played but no sound. Then my parents went for a night out I got it out box again to find my dad hadn't pushed the audio lead in far enough 1 click an bingo a game loaded I was so chuffed so was my dad when he got back in. Manic miner and horrace goes skiing was the 2 originals games i had that xmas day also 2 cassettes full of copied games my dads mate did for him. Id never of completed manic miner had it not been for a Poke command inserted after the Load "" line that went round school. Even aged 20+ some 7 yr later around 1990/92 me and my mates endless nights with a pot of tea playing such master pieces as wacky darts, football manager, ATV, Weelie, block busters, Chuckie Egg, Grand National...Declathlon and many more till 4am then up for work 7 lol priceless times.
Quality, I actually completed this year's ago, and funny how it all springs Back.. I challenged my son who was 13 at the time to play it (this was 2 years ago) he struggled like mad, and he's a ps5 "gamer" haha... He got so annoyed 😂
John Watson fan Yup - and when my father told me it was based on real music (Grieg's 'In the Hall of the Mountain King') I was amazed - our computer can play real music! OMG! Yes, we were easily impressed by computers back then....
***** You're really offensive. It has been said, and it was in relation to Fallout 4 or Skyrim, I forget which it was exactly now. What you mean is that you've not heard of that happening, it's not a thing you've experienced.
***** Sorry you justifying your bad behaviour by saying 'it's the internet' really is a poor excuse. You wouldn't talk like that to a random woman irl if you heard her talking to her friend, while being stood near you.
This took 45 mins to load on the Commodore 64! Sometimes it wouldn't load so you had to adjust the tape player volume and try again! Totally loved it, spent hours playing it 😄
Was an expert at getting to the Warehouse with all lives plus extras intact, then losing the lot. Got past it once, and if I got past Amoebatrons' Revenge, I didn't get past the Solar Generator. #35YearsStillNotDoneIt
...this kinds of games nowdays are forbbiden...because it can be considered torture for the mind of the children...especiality if you consider that in that machine the music was not controled by a button.
This game is a lot harder than it looks here. Games back then were brutal. Because they were linear. You die then you have to start over. From the beginning..
I tried this game at a gaming museum and did surprisingly horrible. On my best effort I only made it to level two. On my first try I didn't even know you were not allowed to touch anything except for the keys.
I watched a video next to my dad and it had a song that reminded him of manic miner I personally thought that the menu music was scary but I saw it more and now I’m like DAD DOWNLOAD THIS GAME FOR $3
I loved this game I got it at Oxfam for 50p I liked it for two reasons one it loaded fast two I played it for ages! I couldn't wait to get back from school to play it!
some talented programmers from York UK made a version of manic miner called Mini Miner back in the day. the only person I can remember was an amazing programmer called Fred. He worked out how to get the background colour at the side of the screen to match the on screen display by timing the raster interrupt and redraw of the display using z80 assembly language. it wasn't released through some crap from who owned the rights to it. software projects wanted too much money so they said sod off. anyway Fred if your out there I got into programming cause of you.
Nintendo: My games are very hard. ZX Spectrum: Hold my cup of tea. There were some games I finished when I was a kid, but most of them are so hard I struggled to finish the first level. I couldn't finish the second or third level of Manic Miner. Now I'm a grown man, tried to play it again, I struggled to finish any level and the fourth one is requiring lots of timing and precision. It's very hard with only two lives and instantaneously death in a world that looks like something made by the Monty Python. And there were other games like that, for instance, Dynamite Dan. Now I saw more than 20 minutes of gameplay with crazy levels. Implementing the game in Assembly probably wasn't easy for a kid, especially taking into account the innovations. The in-game music in a ZX Spectrum game was one of them.
Your channel is the bomb I love it. Can you help me plz I'm looking for a game on the ZX Spectrum 48k details on my channel, also I'm defo making a shed like yours.
Played this on Tesla's PMD-85 computer, black-and-white. I was like 9yo, and i was sooo addicted to it, it was like the best game ever. And then a family frend showed me straight into Prince of Persia. Now that was a revelation, to say at least!
WHOEVER YOU ARE, THANK YOU. Uffffff. reminded me of those daysssss. Everytime I hear the the Blue Danube, I think of Manic Miner. Why did I always think it was Manic "Minor"? haha!
02:11 I remember as a child I used to find the repeating pattern left in the sunken floor of the top level really satisfying. I thought it looked like ducks in flight. Weird ha
Can I assume you are a ZX Spectrum collector/enthusiast? If so, have you ever heard of a ZX Spectrum adventure game called 'Castle of Terror' by Melbourne House software? It came in two parts on tape (Side A and Side B).
Gosh! Played with the zx spectrum for years about 2 years and began to repair them in 1986/87 . Loved the late nights playing space raiders. Even to this day I'm trying to understand machine code. Back then I had no one to teach me.
The speccyversion from this game is much better then the C64-port. I never understood the hype around this game. `cause I just knowed the C64-version. After plaing the Speccy version I understand why people liked this game so much. Really nice game :)
@@DanceySteveYNWA There was no sound through the TV until the Spectrum 128K. On the original Spectrum and the Spectrum+ all sound came through the beeper speaker built into the computer, there was no volume control.
gwishart you wrote this to educate me or that I don't know the difference between a 48k rubber key , Daley Thompson supertest smashing spectrum from another? Thanks but I already know this and I had my sound hook up to my midi hifi too via a jack so I wasn't technically turning the TV down anyway sooo
Legend era, people would spend hours in family home with friends playing this, not like today. People get bored if not outside in massive drunk dramas etc, younger generations especially
It blows my mind that I had this game for so long as a child and played it so much yet never got past Eugene's Lair. I remember playing Manic Miner in the playground at school...everyone had to be a particular baddie and walk back and forth while the hero dodged them. Fun times!
Same, never seen past eugenes lair ha
I made it past Eugenes Lair once, a combination of surprise and panic meant I lost my single remaining life straight away.
You guys can complain all you want about the music but know this: Manic Miner is the first game to ever have ingame music. So personally, I'd cut it some slack.
Well, the first *spectrum* game with in-game music. Anyhow Manic Miner is one of the best games evvveeerrrrr. The thrill of loading this up on the spectrum, and marvelling at its awesomeness is something those in the know will understand....
It also helps that the sound is very even and percussive giving it an ambient quality, like nature sounds or car engines.
Thank you it was a big accomplishment and no one even remembered it :(
Manic miner wasn't closest to the first game to have in game music
@@Jackthecritic It was the first one with in-game music on the speccy.
I'd totally forgotten about this game, I don't think i ever got to the amoebatrons!
Wait what? After the final screen it just loops back to the start again? I played this like a million times back in the day and I could never make it past the 4th screen so I never got to see what happens when you finally beat game.
i always thought it sounded like puking
RTX is on or off?
that was a perfect cold room
Only 23 minutes to complete the game? I've been trying well over 23 years and not even half way through!
Ha ha ive been trying for years and only beat ugene once
I only ever did it with the POKE 😁
1984, playing this game in my parents living room, mesmerized, fascinated, excited, glued to TV screen, just couldn’t get enough! Thanks for posting. It only took me almost 40 years to find it again :)
Yeah me to. I was 6 at that moment.
Must've been an awesome feeling to make it to the final screen and complete this.
Although, kind of disappointing that it just starts again. I always imagined a film crew would turn up at your door, with two girls showering you with kisses, and a fly past over your house.
Since I'm never likely to complete it though, I'll still believe that....
LOVED mm and the memories of playing it with my dad. x
For one of the sequels the developers actually ran a challenge and would award anyone who managed to complete the game a prize. Great, only problem was the game was actually impossible to complete due to a bug, and so when someone did do it (after hacking the game themselves to fix the bug) the developers refused to believe them because they knew it was impossible.
@@MrSniperfox29 It's not like these games were good to begin with since Bobby Is Going Home on Atari 2600 had better controls, ESPECIALLY in terms of jumping as well as better music & graphics.
@@ExtremeWreck Lies, these games (when they worked) were brilliant. And I should hope the 2600 had better graphics than a game released on a Spectrum as the 2600 had three times the ROM the spectrum did at the time.
@@MrSniperfox29 That's just your opinion honestly. I mean, this game is overrated in my eyes. The exploration aspect would've made it a decent game to play if it not for the tedious jumping controls & inconsistent platform collisions. Not to mention the level design is CLEARLY not made for those bad jumping controls in mind. In my eyes, it didn't age well.
Now Donkey Kong had the same jumping controls, but the level design was made with that kind of jump in mind, so it made for a better experience. Same for Pitfall on Atari 2600. Octolris wasn't made for those jumping controls in mind, nor Blinky 3, but they gave you a bit of mercy by making it so that there are plenty of health pickups & a lot of space to use for most of the game until you get to near the end of the game.
Meanwhile with Manic Miner, it clearly just didn't seem to go right. Not much room for error when it comes to jumping, moving too slow & stiff, plus the platform collisions being inconsistent made for an ultra-hard platformer & NOT for good reasons. I can respect the effort to make the game, but clearly Matthew Smith should've at least considered making the jumping controls a little easier. If the jumping controls(and honestly, the rest of the controls) were to have been improved, including the ability to move mid-air, then it would've been a decent game; not a great game per se, but a fun little game for its time. Sadly though, we never got to see what that version could've been & instead he just took it to the publisher, Bug Byte Software, as it is now.
Thankfully, due to Super Mario Bros. releasing about 2 years later, it would mean that this game would NEVER see an official release here in the States, lest it would've gotten VERY & understandably negative reviews.
@@ExtremeWreck Again, you are trying to bring up more powerful consoles so yes, they will be better.
Sorry if you weren't very good at the game, but hey, must be an American thing.
After all you never got Super Mario Bros 2 (the real one) because they thought it would be too difficult for you.
Ah yes, the toilets in Eugene's Lair were always a source of amusement for young minds back in the 80's.
If you watch the whole video ....
you'll still be hearing the music in bed tonight.
Wow! That brings back so many memories. I think I only got as fair as Eugene's Lair!
"With the proceeds of Styx I went on a skiing holiday to Italy with Patrick, the son
of a family friend who had the same wacky sense of humour as me. I bought a
red notebook in which I drew all the screens for Manic Miner - when I returned
home, I spent eight weeks programming the game. I programmed mainly at
night because my TRS-80 development machine crashed every time anyone put
the kettle on. Nobody had heard of spike suppressors or uninterruptable power
supplies. And Patrick? He's now a hypnotherapist in Kingston-Upon-Thames."
-- Matthew Smith (game designer, programmer and graphic artist - Manic Miner)
I spent entire afternoons playing with this.
Me too, jet set willie, chuckie egg too.
me too !
@PeckyThePigeon 1) I have never been useful to society in the first place 2) Your turn will come.
mornings and nights :-)
Afternoons, days...
This is a fantastic game from the golden age of British videogaming.
do you like these type of games i play also gba ds sega ens snes gbc and other games in emulator i love platformers and you
For a brief moment, I suddely went back to 1984 while watching this!!
I can hear "hall of the mountain king" through my autistic ears
Doug Funnie same
me too
Probably because that's what it was supposed to be. 😁 ✌
My history teacher put this on for 5 minutes
21:20 This manoeuvre got my palms sweating! Just very skilful playing throughout. Respect!
My all time favourite game ,and how difficult was this game ,come to think of it ,most spectrum games were rock hard . Matthew Smith was only a kid when he created this masterpiece , genius to know his way around a computer at such a young age
Game was so hard! From memory i don't think i got past the phones. Nice to see the final result. On Jet Set Willy i was happy to find a new room after several hundred plays. The game objective never mattered. lol.
Played id with friends from my class. There were 15 people in my tiny room waiting for their turn. No one complained about anything.
This was the era before Speccy ganes became film or coin-op conversion rip off based. The early games had character and quirkiness along with originality. The music and sound effects in this game are really special; the completion sound for each level is brilliant and I have never heard anything like it before or since. The whole game is just pure class and one of a kind. Long live the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!
True. The last years were a bit ridiculous with the Z80 trying to replicate what was done by coin ops with twin 68000's and custom hardware. The speccy managed some impressive things in its time, but there's no way that £120 quids worth of 8 year old digital beer mat can keep up with that.
I know the music could drive you mad ,but this is good quality sound for the spectrum ,and in the early days of the spectrum as well
as a kid I thought that main character is a bear with one broken ear ...:) (i didnt understand english title then) now, 30 years later, I see he is a miner with the lamp on his helmet ... ;)
Wow!!!! 30 years later I’m only now realising it was a lamp!!!! Thanks
I grew up with these games... Manic Miner, Chuckie Egg, Dizzy etc. A real blast from the past!
Matthew Smith.... what a bloody genius.....
One of the best games ever, I absolutely loved this!
Oh my god this brings back memories. Even though this game released ages before I was born I still played it.
They say that everyone who played this game can still hear the music today even when there not playing...
Every time Miner Willy jumped, it was like ASMR. For many British people, Willy was our first platformer mascot.
Roblox take a back seat this was 1983@ and 38 years later nothing is better or harder than this great game I wore my cassette player out playing these games lol.
This is the first game I played on my ZX Spectrum. I only ever got to the 16th level playing as normal. I completed the game using the unlimited lives 'poke'. Even with unlimited lives I died loads of time on the solar power generator (it kept taking all my air off me with the beam). Really classic game.
how i get extra lives? thank you
i'm up to that level now
It feels so weird hearing the audio with headphones. Especially at 2x speed.
loved it.hated eugines lair.fuckin toilets
mr magoo yea. The vat was as far as I got. Me and a mate playing this after school in Wales on cold dark nights and that was just the summer. How we didn't turn into goths, bum each other and slit our own wrists is beyond me..... That fuckin music... Turn it off!!!!
When I played it back in the day, for some reason I thought that they were combine harvesters. As if that'd make more sense than toilets. I later realised / found out that they were toilets. The disconnect sometimes between the items that Miner Willy collects and the enemies in the level was like Dadaism or something - the collectable in that level appears to be bricks. One brilliant, brilliant, thing about Manic Miner is that, on 20 single screens, they all had an entirely different feel. That is some dedication towards world building that was mightily impressive. Each level really was a fiendish puzzle of timing, route planning, and reflexes- frustratingly so after about level 11. It was surreal but in the best British way of that - with logic to it- really superb level design and foreboding use of large sprites against the tiny Miner Willy. And the Pythonesque foot and the deliberately out of tune title screen all helped to make it too.
Miner Willy shoulda been bigger than Mario.
Thanks for sharing the playthrough. Such nostalgia, even though I played it on a different system (Amstrad CPC464). I remember the first 5 levels in this video, so that's probably how far I originally got in the game. However, for some reason, I also remember the Solar Power Generator, but I don't know why. My friend owned the Amstrad, so it was probably him that got that far in the game. I definitely remember seeing the light beam bouncing around :-)
If you type '6031769' whilst the game is playing, a boot appears where the spare lives are. You can then hold down 6 and a combination of other keys to get to levels you aren't that good at so you can practice them. You won't get the fish and dagger at the end if you do this though. This hack works with the Fuse emulator for Mac as well.
I wish they made 'em like this again! The ZX Spectrum was the equivalent of today's Raspberry Pi, I suppose.
I can now die with the end of that game securely behind me! Thanks
Still stuck on level 17 after 30 years, and the kids are crying about how hard flappy bird is. They don't know how good they have it
Man ,do i love your pic :) I agree, it's hard as f*** :)
This is just as hard as flappy bird but complain all you want I guess
Better than me, I only got to level 8.
Heres 15 levels
Took me years in the 80's to get to level 17!! This is how hard games were back in the day! Great memories!
Yeah and every time you get to the new level you have hardly any lives available to learn the new level followed by a huge journey to get back there once those lives are gone.
There's a different between hard games like Contra on NES & just downright terrible shovelware like this.
Thank you for quickly skipping the title :)
Wow, you are seriously awesome on this game
There's something about nostalgia. I ditched a PS4 and went back to a 90s original PlayStation. Now, I am considering going back again to the Speccy. Manic Miner, what a great game. One of my favourites.
I spent my life trying to learn the timings of every room! Why? I got to about Cavern 13 then the download codes came out! Had they not I’d still only be up to about Cavern 15!
Do you know why adult men love these games?
Simple wins fix our broken confidence.
Great to see this. Completed this when I was 9. I'm 43 now and still remember the moves. Skylab landing bay was always my nemesis!
Congrats, I'm 44 and I never got past level 6, I think.
the trick is to wait for the skylab to crash onto the next one and then jump onto it - just patience
Christmas day my dad and me thought my rubber keyed spectrum was broke despite having the audio leads plugged in there was no iconic lines on screen or sound to indicate a game was loading tape played but no sound. Then my parents went for a night out I got it out box again to find my dad hadn't pushed the audio lead in far enough 1 click an bingo a game loaded I was so chuffed so was my dad when he got back in. Manic miner and horrace goes skiing was the 2 originals games i had that xmas day also 2 cassettes full of copied games my dads mate did for him. Id never of completed manic miner had it not been for a Poke command inserted after the Load "" line that went round school. Even aged 20+ some 7 yr later around 1990/92 me and my mates endless nights with a pot of tea playing such master pieces as wacky darts, football manager, ATV, Weelie, block busters, Chuckie Egg, Grand National...Declathlon and many more till 4am then up for work 7 lol priceless times.
Thank you so much!! Made me remember 30 years ago! Nostalgic.
ALX MonT You're welcome :)
Excellent!!! Yes ALX i remember this game, so nice to see it moore than 30 years later. Thanks RZX Archive for the video.
After 30 years i can see how to escape. Very good video RZX Archive congratulations.
Quality, I actually completed this year's ago, and funny how it all springs Back.. I challenged my son who was 13 at the time to play it (this was 2 years ago) he struggled like mad, and he's a ps5 "gamer" haha... He got so annoyed 😂
this is seriously killing my ears. is this really what it sounded like?! jesus
John Watson fan
Yup - and when my father told me it was based on real music (Grieg's 'In the Hall of the Mountain King') I was amazed - our computer can play real music! OMG! Yes, we were easily impressed by computers back then....
And all the kids these days complain about the blades of grass in their games not looking 'hyper real'.
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You're really offensive. It has been said, and it was in relation to Fallout 4 or Skyrim, I forget which it was exactly now.
What you mean is that you've not heard of that happening, it's not a thing you've experienced.
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Sorry you justifying your bad behaviour by saying 'it's the internet' really is a poor excuse. You wouldn't talk like that to a random woman irl if you heard her talking to her friend, while being stood near you.
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I never use tumblr, and you're an awful person.
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This took 45 mins to load on the Commodore 64! Sometimes it wouldn't load so you had to adjust the tape player volume and try again! Totally loved it, spent hours playing it 😄
gaah, the Music cuts my ears in half!!!
The memories! The nostalgia! I CAN'T HANDLE IT!
Was an expert at getting to the Warehouse with all lives plus extras intact, then losing the lot. Got past it once, and if I got past Amoebatrons' Revenge, I didn't get past the Solar Generator. #35YearsStillNotDoneIt
Who else is watching after Bandersnatch? 😀
...this kinds of games nowdays are forbbiden...because it can be considered torture for the mind of the children...especiality if you consider that in that machine the music was not controled by a button.
Takes me back 30 years.....those were the days..... Nice post :o)
Even just watching this is nail biting! :) How the hell did Matthew Smith test this? It was a hell of a job and he was a genius - probably both.
This game is a lot harder than it looks here. Games back then were brutal. Because they were linear. You die then you have to start over. From the beginning..
Epic, straight back to 1983..
I tried this game at a gaming museum and did surprisingly horrible. On my best effort I only made it to level two. On my first try I didn't even know you were not allowed to touch anything except for the keys.
I watched a video next to my dad and it had a song that reminded him of manic miner I personally thought that the menu music was scary but I saw it more and now I’m like DAD DOWNLOAD THIS GAME FOR $3
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So sad 😢😢
Looks so simple now but for months, this was my life.
this is what brushing your teeth sounds like
I loved this game I got it at Oxfam for 50p I liked it for two reasons one it loaded fast two I played it for ages! I couldn't wait to get back from school to play it!
ese juego lo jugué en un cd de 100 juegos para pc hace mil años
Don't think I ever got past Eugene's Lair.
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some talented programmers from York UK made a version of manic miner called Mini Miner back in the day. the only person I can remember was an amazing programmer called Fred. He worked out how to get the background colour at the side of the screen to match the on screen display by timing the raster interrupt and redraw of the display using z80 assembly language. it wasn't released through some crap from who owned the rights to it. software projects wanted too much money so they said sod off. anyway Fred if your out there I got into programming cause of you.
That music is somehow both disgusting and charming at the same time
This must have been a horrific waste of time back in the days. Past the first 6-7 levels there's only struggle, no entertainment.
Swear that I watched my Dad finish this game...
LSD GAME!!!
Used to love this game. Thanks for transporting me back to my childhood
You're welcome :)
This game is based on prophecy in the bible
could not get pass screen five.
shit aint i
Took me so long to get past the Endorian Forest
Nintendo: My games are very hard.
ZX Spectrum: Hold my cup of tea.
There were some games I finished when I was a kid, but most of them are so hard I struggled to finish the first level.
I couldn't finish the second or third level of Manic Miner.
Now I'm a grown man, tried to play it again, I struggled to finish any level and the fourth one is requiring lots of timing and precision.
It's very hard with only two lives and instantaneously death in a world that looks like something made by the Monty Python.
And there were other games like that, for instance, Dynamite Dan.
Now I saw more than 20 minutes of gameplay with crazy levels.
Implementing the game in Assembly probably wasn't easy for a kid, especially taking into account the innovations. The in-game music in a ZX Spectrum game was one of them.
3:20 TF2 Engie, is that you!?
Your channel is the bomb I love it. Can you help me plz I'm looking for a game on the ZX Spectrum 48k details on my channel, also I'm defo making a shed like yours.
Played this on Tesla's PMD-85 computer, black-and-white. I was like 9yo, and i was sooo addicted to it, it was like the best game ever. And then a family frend showed me straight into Prince of Persia. Now that was a revelation, to say at least!
I used to play this shit when I was young :D I am still young..
Loved this game but never finished it, I was Always defeated the Skylab no mater how hard I tried I just couldn't get past it
WHOEVER YOU ARE, THANK YOU. Uffffff. reminded me of those daysssss. Everytime I hear the the Blue Danube, I think of Manic Miner. Why did I always think it was Manic "Minor"? haha!
This game comes pre loaded on a game stick i got from TikTok along with other Spectrum ZX games
uno de mis favoritos !... quiero la maquina del tiempo y clavarme en los años 80 !!!
02:11 I remember as a child I used to find the repeating pattern left in the sunken floor of the top level really satisfying. I thought it looked like ducks in flight. Weird ha
Can I assume you are a ZX Spectrum collector/enthusiast? If so, have you ever heard of a ZX Spectrum adventure game called 'Castle of Terror' by Melbourne House software? It came in two parts on tape (Side A and Side B).
Gosh! Played with the zx spectrum for years about 2 years and began to repair them in 1986/87 . Loved the late nights playing space raiders. Even to this day I'm trying to understand machine code. Back then I had no one to teach me.
Oh how life introduced me to frustration. 😣😣😵😵😊😊
The speccyversion from this game is much better then the C64-port.
I never understood the hype around this game. `cause I just knowed the C64-version. After plaing the Speccy version I understand why people liked this game so much. Really nice game :)
And this game lol that annoying tune done your head right in jeez it goes on and on
kimbo172 yea. No sound control on spectrum. It did your head in. How I didn't slit my wrists is beyond me.
Leo the Lion you just turned the TV down, it wasn't a big thing in the 80s.
@@DanceySteveYNWA There was no sound through the TV until the Spectrum 128K. On the original Spectrum and the Spectrum+ all sound came through the beeper speaker built into the computer, there was no volume control.
gwishart you wrote this to educate me or that I don't know the difference between a 48k rubber key , Daley Thompson supertest smashing spectrum from another? Thanks but I already know this and I had my sound hook up to my midi hifi too via a jack so I wasn't technically turning the TV down anyway sooo
Wow this soundtrack was really pushing the limits ;)
Highest level don't seem the most difficult one
Yes, the one before that (Solar Power Generator) is generally regarded as the hardest level, due to the random nature of the energy-sapping beam.
He puesto el vídeo entero y acaban de pedirme el divorcio.
Madre mía, las horas que metí en su día a este juego.
Legend era, people would spend hours in family home with friends playing this, not like today. People get bored if not outside in massive drunk dramas etc, younger generations especially