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.

Ha ha ive been trying for years and only beat ugene once

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

how i get extra lives? thank you

i'm up to that level now

You're welcome :)

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.

Wow!!!! 30 years later I’m only now realising it was a lamp!!!! Thanks

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

My perhaps favorite was POKEd version of Kokotoni Wilf. It's somewhat similar to Manic Miner, only much better overall - I liked that it has several successive styles of environments (ages), so it wasn't boring after a while for me :)

Doug Funnie same

me too

Probably because that's what it was supposed to be. 😁 ✌

In fairness, if people are here in 2020 playing and talking about a game coded in 1983, I'd say it aged pretty well. And JSW might be flawed but I don't think this has any? Only that it's b*****d difficult!

It was different on a CRT TV :) The blur, the RF modulation noise, the PAL colour encoding, all these imperfections made the graphics look less harsh.

Played it on my black and white tv in 83 or 84