Spectrum 48K Version

[dave_a_e]

Here is another selection of screenshots.

 

The PCN review of the Spectrum version of Manic Miner can be found here:

 

http://www.personalcomputernews.co.uk/pcna/html/023/personal_computer_news_023_gameplay_spectrum_48k_manic_miner.html

[saberman]

Hi

 

This is the link to my Manic Miner walkthrough with commentary:

 

http://youtu.be/AGktLbhGa8o

 

Hope you enjoy it.

Edited September 14, 2014 by Spider
Fixed link

[Spider]

Thank you. :)

 

Fixed the link as it was the JSW one for some reason.

[8bit]

Does anyone know the significance of the Swordfish graphic which appears on completion of The Final Barrier?

 

http://www.zen56791.zen.co.uk/swordfish.png

[Spider]

Does anyone know the significance of the Swordfish graphic which appears on completion of The Final Barrier?

 

http://1.1.1.1/bmi/www.zen56791.zen.co.uk/swordfish.png

 

Not that I'm aware no. It may of been mentioned in one of the interviews but I do not recall the fact unfortunately. :)

[jetsetdanny]

According to Andrew Broad's summary of the interview with Matthew Smith published in Load 48 issue of Retro Gamer magazine, which came out 

on 28 February 2008:

 

> The portal in "The Final Barrier" is "omega - the end!", and he says here that the fish and dagger it turns into at the end of the game are simply a couple of sprites he had drawn but hadn't used in the game, although it is claimed elsewhere that they constitute the word "swordfish".

 

 

According to information from The Spectrum Games Database published on WoS:

 

> When you jump into the exit of The Final Barrier (and you haven't used the 6031769 cheat) the door changes from an omega sign to a fish and dagger, one above the other, the answer being Swordfish. You were supposed to quote this in the competition (i.e. the first person to quote what happened at the end correctly must have won, though I don't remember ever seeing who did it, if anyone). Then the game then starts again from the beginning - in the true tradition of Spectrum Games.

 

 

According to information published here in 2006 (see the very bottom of the page):

 

> When Matthew Smith did his talk at the Broadway Cinema in Nottingham the other year he new mentioned anything about a competition. He said the reason it showed the knife and fish was that you would know those who had the skills to complete the game, as only they would know the final image. (of course, what was to stop every kid in the playground finding it out and boasting they knew what the final image was...)

 

 

According to information published here:

 

> On the last screen

Edited August 11, 2015 by jetsetdanny