I'm throwing in another nomination for:
Metabolis - because this game doesn't get nearly enough love! (I don't recall seeing it in A Gremlin in the Works either )
And:
Moron (the text adventure)
Metro-Cross
Molecule Man
Monopoly (by Leisure Genius)
This is a one horse race, the rest are donkeys compared to the supreme classicness of Manic Miner. No contest for M.
I don't have anything cool to put here, so i'll just be off now to see a priest with yeast stuck between his teeth and his friend called Keith who's a hairpiece thief...
djnzx48 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 10:16 am
That's an interesting point actually, should the Bug Byte and Software Projects versions be listed as separate games? Then we can find out whether impossible triangles beat those up and down threshing things in the Warehouse. Plus it might give the other games more of a fighting chance!
EDIT: Wow, I never realised until just now that those Warehouse sprites are supposed to be rotating. I always thought that they were just extending up and down. Mind blown...
Good point. It makes me wonder how very-very-similar versions should be treated. Not just from different software houses, but things like the 48K and 128K versions. Renegade, for example, has an extra move in 128 mode, on top of the convenience of the levels all being present without multi-load.
I'm almost considering running a poll...
have Manic Miner's Bug Byte and Software Projects versions treated as two games
treat both Manic Miner's Bug Byte and Software Projects version as the same game, attribute to 'Bug Byte/Software Projects'
This is craven and mendacious manipulation of the constituency boundaries in a shameful attempt to put Manic Miner at an unfair disadvantage. I motion a vote of no confidence in Peter Tramiel-Prodge as chair of the M vote.
R-Tape wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 6:12 pm
This is craven and mendacious manipulation of the constituency boundaries in a shameful attempt to put Manic Miner at an unfair disadvantage. I motion a vote of no confidence in Peter Tramiel-Prodge as chair of the M vote.
I'm fairly sure it's going to do really well. If I do split across Bug Byte and Software Projects versions, then MM fans will probably group together to pick the leading version, pooling all their votes into that. According to Wikipedia, the gameplay is exactly the same, there are just some minor baddy sprite differences on certain levels.
You name it, it's in there - names, emails, PMs, overheard Commodian sympathies expressed in coffee shops. All of it a plot to discredit our most beloved game.
It can be deployed within 48 hours, I hope I don't have to use it.
R-Tape wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 9:20 pm
I have a dossier.
[...] overheard Commodian sympathies [...]
It can be deployed within 48 hours, I hope I don't have to use it.
Ok, ok, I can explain it... my only connection with C64 was a work as an advertizing model... you know... I needed money, that's all... I've always been loyal to the Spectrum... IT'S WAS JUST A F*CK*NG ADVERT! JUST A F*CK*NG ADVERT!!!