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Games of MM and JSW interest
I. Platform games similar to MM or JSW/probably enjoyable for MM and JSW fans
Wanted: Monty Mole
Author: Peter M. Harrap
Publisher: Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd
Year: 1984
Language: English
Wanted: Monty Mole is the first game in the Monty Mole series. The protagonist — the titular mole — travels around a coal mine collecting pieces of coal and other miscellaneous objects while avoiding various nasties and the infamous crushers.
GAME PREMISE: With a long cold winter and bone chilling Christmas ahead, Monty Mole makes a daring coal snatching raid to his local South Yorkshire pit. Grabbing a miner's bucket he heads off into the darkness, soon to wish he'd caught a cold instead.
Alas there's no turning back. Onward to do battle with flying pickets and mammal eating fish; filling his bucket as he dodges the trundling coal crushers and roaming coal drills; keeping an eye on the constantly disappearing floor.
With his bucket filled, Monty makes his escape, only to surface in Arthur's castle where his way is blocked by a fiery figure seated on a graphite throne. Seizing his only chance of toppling the great man, Monty collects the secret ballot papers and vote casting scroll. But Arthur's no fool when it comes to the heavy stuff and his personal bodyguard of super fit pickets and deadly flying hairsprays put up an almighty struggle with our valiant Mole.
Links
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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 |
Video
A walkthrough of the game on the JSW Central YouTube channel
Download the JSW Central video in its original Full HD quality or in an AI-upscaled 4K version |
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