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Miner 2049er is a 1982 platformer game developed and published by Big Five Software in December 1982. It is set in a mine, where the player controls the Mountie Bounty Bob. The player controls Bounty Bob through multiple levels of a mine, with the goal of traversing all of the platforms in each level all while avoiding enemies and within a set amount of time.
Bounty Bob Strikes Back! is the sequel to Miner 2049er published in 1985 [1] for Atari 8-bit computers. The game adds a pseudo-3D look to the platforms and increases the level count from 10 to 25. As with the original, the Atari 8-bit version was released on ROM cartridge. [2]
"Miner 2049er ended up being licensed out to several companies for release on other platforms including Tiger Electronics, Micro Fun and US Gold in Europe and ended up being released for an incredible 22 different systems including a LCD handheld game" and "All of my prior games were written for the Radio Shack TRS-80 model I, which had fairly ...
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Miner 2049er was awarded "Electronic Game of the Year" in the 1984 Arkie Awards, [6] among other accolades for the game and Hogue. A planned sequel, Scraper Caper, was advertised, but cancelled. A sequel, Bounty Bob Strikes Back! was published in 1985 after which Hogue stopped developing games and Big Five ramped down.
Manic Miner is a platform game written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith.It was published by Bug-Byte in 1983, then later the same year by Software Projects. [4] The first game in the Miner Willy series, the design was inspired by Miner 2049er (1982) for the Atari 8-bit computers.
Miner 2049er was first published for the Atari 8-bit computers by Big Five Software. While the Atari 8-bit version contains ten levels, it was split into two cartridges for the 2600, each sold as a separate game containing three levels.
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