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using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines
I. Manic Miner (MM)
Games using Matthew Smith's original Manic Miner game engine for the 48K Spectrum
7. Manic Miner: The Buddha of Suburbia
Also known as: Manic Miner 6
Author: Andrew Broad
Publisher: Broadsoft
Year: 1998
Special Edition: 2003
Language: English
Manic Miner: The Buddha of Suburbia is the second MM remake gamma-released by Andrew Broad. The concept for the game is based on David Bowie's soundtrack album for the BBC2 adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's novel The Buddha of Suburbia. However, only the back ten rooms are based on David Bowie's album (a room for each track on the album), the first ten being a mix of Andrew's early MM experiments which he ultimately considered good enough to keep.
The game was originally written in 1994. Andrew hacked it slightly in 1998 to bring it up to his standards of that time and gamma-released it in April 1998. The Special Edition of the game was released in August 2003, with edited Miner Willy graphics, title-screen graphics, end-game colour attributes, playing area colour attributes, scrolly and in-game tune (the room data are identical to the original release).
In the Special Edition the player plays as Karim Amir - son of Haroon Amir, the Buddha of Suburbia.
The Special Edition completely supersedes the Original Edition.
Number of rooms: 20
Highest documented score:
- upon reaching the swordfish sign: 25,536 points;
- upon first re-entry into the first cavern: n/a.
(The air counter keeps resetting itself after the player has completed the final cavern, causing a constant increase in the score and making it impossible to re-enter the first cavern.)
Download links
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Archival version of Andrew Broad's Sinclair ZX Spectrum Download Page |
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ZIP of the official release of the Special Edition of the game |
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Game files of both the Original and Special Editions in TAP and TZX formats |
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The game's page on WoS |
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The game's page on Spectrum Computing |
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The game's map on Speccy Screenshot Maps |
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RZX walkthrough of the game on the RZX Archive |
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RZX walkthrough of the Special Edition of the game showing the highest documented score |
Video
A walkthrough of game on the JSW Central YouTube channel
Additional info:
Andrew Broad about Manic Miner: The Buddha of Suburbia
Manic Miner: The Buddha of Suburbia - Room descriptions by Andrew Broad
Screenshot gallery |
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