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Old 05 March 2004, 02:23 PM
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Default Manic Miner or Jet Set *****?

Close call IMO

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Manic Miner.
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jet set *****
Old 05 March 2004, 02:52 PM
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Manic Miner because you could at least finish it without having to cheat
Old 05 March 2004, 02:56 PM
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ah yes a blast from the past of my old spectrum days. i remember manic miner, but cant picture jet set *****. someone must have a link to a screenshot or something?
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Jet Set *****:




Manic Miner:



Preferred Manic Miner myself

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Old 05 March 2004, 03:08 PM
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jet set ***** on my Amstrad 6128 ..... oh the mermories
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manic miner IMHO, JSW was a bit tedious

hey check this out http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/anoble/games.html

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http://www.bigredswitch.co.uk/games/mm/
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Originally Posted by JackClark
Jack, you have MADE my Friday... that and the 'Judges' 'muff' remarks.... from the MAF post... many thanks!!!

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I remember playing manic miner on my 1st 386 PC it went so fast I couldn't keep up with it, god know what it will b elike on a Pentium
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Chuckie Egg beats em both...
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I can remember Mathew Smith - Author of manic miner - first game programmer millionaire.
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Wow that brings back memories playing that!!

Almost had a tantrum and punched the keyboard like I used to do!!

The joys of wrecking your joystick playing Daily Thompsons decathlon

oooooooeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr

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chuckie egg ahhhhh memories, level 24 i managed to get to took ages though
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Talking Jet Set ***** (speccytrum) gets my vote

Jet Set *****, definitely. Get an hour into the game, then fall off the wrong ledge.

<Blip>. <Blip>. <Blip>. "Big Foot" Squash. GAME OVER.

Ba$tard!
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