JSW Central - Resource Centre for ZX Spectrum games based on Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines

Resource centre for ZX Spectrum games
using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines

II. Jet Set Willy (JSW48)

A. New games using Matthew Smith's original Jet Set Willy game engine for the 48K Spectrum and its modifications

39. Manic Mining Robot's Day Out

Author: Vidar Eriksen (Erix1)

Publisher: Manic Miner Technologies

Year: 2003

Standalone version (by Daniel Gromann): 2008

Language: English

Manic Mining Robot's Day Out is a "secret bonus crap game" attached to Maria vs. Some Bastards, a game by Vidar Eriksen (Erix1). It can be launched on the initial screen by pressing "0".

GAME PREMISE: The roof is Central Cavern has just caved in. Help the Manic Mining Robot to get back at Willy for robbing the mines. Pay off Maria and exact your revenge!

Information about the game was revealed by Vidar Eriksen himself in messages 3454 and 3457 on the Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy Yahoo! Group; in the former he described it as "just compilation of screens and graphics" he "had to edit out of Maria vs some bastards".

The game includes some of the modifications to the original JSW48 game engine introduced by Erix1 in Maria vs. Some Bastards, most notably switches that allow the player to stop and restart the guardians in the room.

A standalone version of the game, with an added loading screen, created by Daniel Gromann, has been available on the internet since 2008.

The 128K Russian hack of Maria vs. Some Bastards, available on TRDos ReCracks, also contains Manic Mining Robot's Day Out, which can be launched there not by pressing "0" on the initial screen, but by bringing up the cheat menu by pressing "c" and then choosing option 7.

In the 2019 Bug-Fixed Edition of Maria vs. Some Bastards, released by the Jet Set Willy & Manic Miner Community Team, a typo in the scrolly for Manic Mining Robot's Day Out was corrected.

Number of edited rooms: 28

Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 28

Number of items to collect: 28

Bugfix needed after original release? NO

Spare lives at the start: 6

Completable without loss of life? YES

Starting time: 7:00 am

Best documented completion time with no loss of life: 7:33 am

Download links

Direct game download	Game file in TAP and TZX formats

Additional download	2019 Bug-Fixed Edition of Maria vs. Some Bastards on JSW & MM Community

Additional download	A 128K Russian hack of Maria vs. Some Bastards from TRDos ReCracks

World of Spectrum	The game's page on WoS

Spectrum Computing	The game's page on Spectrum Computing

Speccy Screenshot Maps	The game's map on Speccy Screenshot Maps

JSW Central	RZX walkthrough of the game showing the best documented completion time

RZX Archive	RZX walkthrough of the game on the RZX Archive (showing a completion of the game which is inferior to the best publicly available recording)