tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post9219007645971883392..comments2024-03-28T13:43:13.495+00:00Comments on Super Adventures in Gaming: Manic Miner (ZX Spectrum)Ray Hardgrithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18436491500347661133noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-23403966518321337422017-07-19T05:25:06.989+01:002017-07-19T05:25:06.989+01:00I love your enthusiasm.I love your enthusiasm.Ray Hardgrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18436491500347661133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-57422833349825234712017-07-19T04:35:08.329+01:002017-07-19T04:35:08.329+01:00I'm a 39yr old (female) and from been a very y...I'm a 39yr old (female) and from been a very young kid, games such as Manic Minor, Jetset Willy and of course Atic Atac bring back such happy childhood memories for me. Sitting in my bigger brothers bedroom, (his bedroom in 2017 would probably be called a walk in wardrobe to some people, to us kids growing up in the early 80's we knew it as the box room). Anyway sitting in his room, listening to Fleetwood Mac Rumors album, loading up the classic games in the tape recorder (which took around 30mins per game) and playing the games. For me truly these are just the best memories. The children who have computers theses days really do not know what they missed out on, but I'm thinking that if we were to have their Xboxes and PlayStation taken away for a week, and replaced them with the ZX spectrums and the commodore 64's, I think that half of them would be suicidal and the other half would be thinking that their world had ended. For me I would have a spectrum any day the games were brilliant and the best thing about them were that most of them took you to use your brains to play them, not just shoot shoot kill kill like the games theses days, they were fun to play and probably because they took so long to load up we would keep trying no matter how quickly we lost all of our x3 lives. So for me who cares if I get to level 8/9 and die and have to start again in my mind its all the more fun. So for me YES YES I would recommend these classics to anyone a full 10/10 for me.siobhan heigoldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-72229983947421246992014-07-21T21:26:45.378+01:002014-07-21T21:26:45.378+01:00There was a sequel to this game - Jet Set Willy. I...There was a sequel to this game - Jet Set Willy. I played some kind of a dos version with upgraded graphics not long ago, early 2000's. Instead of having linear levels it had a sort of open world where you had to collect all the items. You had a save feature in it, so I found it more playable than this version here. The whole map was huge and after circling the whole thing multiple times I gave up. I was maybe 3 items away from the goal. I think it was an awesome game, hard to explain why.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-35740721047141207762013-05-01T09:46:58.603+01:002013-05-01T09:46:58.603+01:00An absolute classic and even in hindsight still st...An absolute classic and even in hindsight still stands out as one of the best Spectrum games (in my eyes anyway). I never managed to make it past level 14 which was the Skylab Landing Pad. As you say, only having a limited amount of tries to work out a route before having to start over is a complete pain.Wingnuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07859158206963441813noreply@blogger.com