Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum HD 1.7
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This game's also available from within the free Recreated ZX Spectrum app (as an in-app). As of Jun '21, there are no known issues with controls of the game as an in-app.
NEWS FLASH! - the Manic Miner® app - a perfectly formed replica of the much-loved home computer game, with 3D voxel-style graphics - AVAILABLE NOW
Search the App Store for “the Manic Miner® app”.
IMPORTANT: To 'Save' the game go 'Back' to the Main Menu before quitting the App.
Manic Miner for the ZX Spectrum (an 8-bit personal home computer released in the UK in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd, which sold in excess of 5 million units worldwide) is one of THE defining games of the 1980s.
Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum is offered as an in-app purchase from within the Recreated ZX Spectrum app. (The in-app is priced at £2.99. The Recreated ZX Spectrum app includes more ZX Spectrum games plus Sinclair BASIC).
Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum is also available in this stand-alone form but does not include any other ZX Spectrum games.
Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum is the 100% original ZX Spectrum game, written in 1983 and is brought to you - as an officially licenced product - utilizing our ZX Spectrum: Elite Collection technology.
Featuring:
- portrait and landscape play / display modes
- iDaptive (user-definable, game-specific joystick, keypad & canvass) Controls
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- ‘auto save’, on exiting the game
- authentic 'Spectrum' sound
Manic Miner is a platform game originally written for the ZX Spectrum and released by Bug-Byte in 1983 (later re-released by Software Projects). It is the first game in the Miner Willy series and among the pioneers of the platform game genre. The game itself was inspired by the Atari 800 game Miner 2049er. It has since been ported to numerous home computers and video game consoles. At the time, its stand-out features included in-game music and sound effects, excellent playability, and colourful graphics, which were well designed for the graphical limitations of the ZX Spectrum. On the Spectrum this was the first game with in-game music, the playing of which required constant CPU attention and was thought impossible. It was cleverly achieved by constantly alternating CPU time between the music and the game (which accounts for the music's stuttery rhythm). The in-game music is In the Hall of the Mountain King from Edvard Grieg's music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. The music that plays during the title screen is an arrangement of An der schönen blauen Donau (popularly known as The Blue Danube), a waltz by Johann Strauß.
Manic Miner for the ZX Spectrum contains the following 20 rooms:
1. Central Cavern
2. The Cold Room
3. The Menagerie
4. Abandoned Uranium Workings
5. Eugene's Lair
6. Processing Plant
7. The Vat
8. Miner Willy meets the Kong Beast
9. Wacky Amoebatrons
10. The Endorian Forest
11. Attack of the Mutant Telephones
12. Return of the Alien Kong Beast
13. Ore Refinery
14. Skylab Landing Bay
15. The Bank
16. The Sixteenth Cavern
17. The Warehouse
18. Amoebatrons' Revenge
19. Solar Power Generator
20. The Final Barrier
In each of the twenty caverns are several flashing objects, which the player must collect before Willy's oxygen supply runs out. Once the player has collected the objects in one cavern, they must then go to the now-flashing portal, which will take them to the next cavern. The player must avoid enemies (listed in the cassette inlay) as Poisonous Pansies, Spiders, Slime, and Manic Mining Robots, which move backwards and forwards along a predefined length at constant speeds. Willy can also be killed by falling too far, so players must time the precision of jumps and other movements to prevent such falls or collisions with the enemies. The game ends when the player has no lives left; extra lives are gained every 10000 points.
About Elite®: Elite Systems Ltd was incorporated in England in 1984.
Nov 16, 2018
Version v1.7
* Links to the soon to be released Manic Miner® app - a perfectly formed replica of the much-loved home computer game, with 3D voxel-style graphics.
* Support for the Recreated ZX Spectrum.
* Universal app - compatible with iPhone and iPad.
* News of the soon to be offered Manic Miner® Limited-Edition Collectors' Print Playing Cards and of the Jet Set Willy® Limited-Edition Collectors' Print Playing Cards.
About Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum HD
Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum HD is a paid app for iOS published in the Action list of apps, part of Games & Entertainment.
The company that develops Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum HD is Elite Systems Ltd. The latest version released by its developer is 1.7.
To install Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum HD on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2018-11-16 and was downloaded 32 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum HD as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum HD on your iOS device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
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- After Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum HD is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
