| Full title | Manic Miner
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| Year of release | 1983
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| Publisher | Bug-Byte Software Ltd (UK)
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| Re-released by | EDOS (UK)
Mastertronic Added Dimension (UK)
Software Projects Ltd (UK)
Ventamatic (Spain)
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| Author(s) | Matthew Smith
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| Machine type | ZX Spectrum 48K
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| Number of players | 1
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| Controls | Keyboard
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| Type | Arcade: Platform
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| Message language | English
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| Original publication | Commercial
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| Original price | £5.95
1700 ptas.
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| Availability | Available as both Perfect TZX and non-TZX
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| Protection scheme | None
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| Additional info | This title is a member of this group of titles
Participant in the C&VG 1983 Golden Joystick Awards
Also listed on Wikipedia and Freebase
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| Remarks | 3rd place in the C&VG 1983 Golden Joystick Awards - Game of the Year 1983.
Winner of the C&VG 1983 Golden Joystick Awards - Best Arcade Style Game.
There also was a Manic Designer, Manic Designer 2, Manic Miner Editor, Manic Miner Game Designer & Editor, Manic Miner Graphics Designer, Manic Miner Levels Designer, Manic Miner Screen Editor.
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| Series | This game belongs in the following series:
1. Manic Miner
2. Jet Set Willy
3. Jet Set Willy II
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| Other systems | This title was also advertised for and/or published on the Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, MSX and SAM Coupe
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| Score |
8.66 (927 votes) 
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| Title | Author | Year | Platform | Status
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| Manic Miner
| Roman Rugalenko, Andrei Shlykov
| 1998
| PC/DOS
| available
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| Manic Miner for Windows 95
| Barak Ori
| 1999
| PC/Windows
| available
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| Manic Miner
| Kopromaster
| 1999
| PC/DOS
| available
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| Manic Miner PC
| Retrospec (Andy Noble)
| 2000
| PC/Windows
| available
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| Manic Miner PC
| Retrospec (Andy Noble), Darren Salt
| ?
| Archimedes
| available
|
| Eugene - Lord of the Bathroom
| Manic Miner Technologies (Vidar Eriksen)
| 2000
| PC/DOS
| available
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| Manic Miner 2000
| Space-Time Productions Ltd (Steve Watson)
| 2002
| PC/Windows
| available
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| Manic Miner in Java
| Stefan Bates, Paul Bates
| 2002
| Java
| available (link dead?)
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| Manic Miner
| Jason Brooks
| 2002
| PC/Windows
| in progress
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| Manic Miner
| Paul Taylor
| ?
| Gameboy
| available
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| Manic Miner
| Andy Noble, ?
| ?
| Nintendo 64
| available
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| Manic Miner
| Andy Noble
| ?
| Playstation
| available
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| Manic Miner
| M. Edwards
| ?
| Archimedes
| available
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| Manic Miner
| Ales Martinik
| ?
| ZX81
| available
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| Manic Miner ZX/C64
| Kopromaster
| 2003
| PC/DOS, PC/Windows, Linux
| available
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| Manic Miner
| Scott Lewis
| 2003
| Java
| available (v1.0)
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| Chaos Caverns
| Dan's Remakes
| 2006
| PC/Windows, Linux
| in progress (download available)
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| Manic Miner
| Carles P.V.
| 2006
| PC/Windows
| available (source code)
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| Fast Manic
| Musti, Gigatron
| 2007
| PC/Windows
| available
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| Manic Miner - Silver Anniversary Edition
| PeeJay
| 2008
| PC/Windows, Linux
| available - contains the maps of the original Manic Miner, as well as Manic Miner 3: Tales from a Parallel Universe, Manic Miner 5: Los Peligros del LSD and Manic Miner: reniM cinaM.
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| Flash Manic Miner
| Matthew Gordon
| 2008
| Flash
| available
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| Manic Miner in the Lost Levels
| Headsoft
| 2009
| Nintendo DS
| available
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| Magazine | Issue | | Type |
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| Home Computing Weekly | 6.83 | page 436 | (News/Note)
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| Personal Computer News | 7.83 | page 107 | (News/Note)
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 7.83 | page 446 | (Review)
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| Computer & Video Games | 8.83 | page 17 | (News/Note)
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| Personal Computer News | 8.83 | page 248 | (Review)
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| Computer & Video Games | 9.83 | page 131 | (Review)
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| Home Computing Weekly | 9.83 | page 331 | (Review)
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 9.83 | page 417 | (Review)
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| Your Computer | 9.83 | page 51 | (Review)
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| Computer & Video Games | 10.83 | page 25 | (News/Note)
| [full page]
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| Personal Computer News | 10.83 | page 212 | (Letter)
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| ZX Computing | 10.83 | page 59 | (News/Note)
| [full page]
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| Practical Computing | 11.83 | page 150 | (Feature - Spectrum revisited)
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 11.83 | page 109 | (Tips)
| [full page]
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| Computer Choice | 12.83 | page 15 | (Review)
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| Personal Computer Games | 12.83 | page 97 | (Feature)
| [full page]
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| Personal Computer News | 12.83 | page 110 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 12.83 | page 201 | (News/Note)
| [full page]
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 12.83 | page 201 | (News/Note)
| [full page]
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| Sinclair User | 12.83 | page 49 | (Review)
| [full page]
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| ZX Computing | 12.83 | page 151 | (Feature - The best three of '83)
| [full page]
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| Computer & Video Games | 1.84 | page 16 | (News/Note)
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| Computer & Video Games | 1.84 | page 16 | (News/Note)
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| Home Computing Weekly | 1.84 | page 348 | (Tips)
| [full page]
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| Home Computing Weekly | 1.84 | page 533 | (Tips)
| [full page]
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| Your Spectrum | 1.84 | page 48 | (Review)
| [full page]
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| Crash | 2.84 | page 52 | (LivingGuide)
| [full page]
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| Computer & Video Games | 2.84 | page 23 | (News/Note)
| [full page]
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| Home Computing Weekly | 2.84 | page 324 | (Tips)
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| Personal Computer Games | 2.84 | page 11 | (Tips)
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| Personal Computer Games | 2.84 | page 11 | (Tips)
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| Sinclair User | 2.84 | page 17 | (News/Note)
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| Sinclair User | 2.84 | page 17 | (News/Note)
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| Sinclair User | 2.84 | page 26 | (Letter)
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| Crash | 3.84 | page 54 | (LivingGuide)
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| Computer & Video Games | 3.84 | page 7 | (Letter)
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| Computer & Video Games | 3.84 | page 7 | (Letter)
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| Sinclair User | 3.84 | page 27 | (Letter)
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| Computer & Video Games | 4.84 | page 29 | (Review)
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| Personal Computer Games | 4.84 | page 30 | (Hack/Poke)
| [full page]
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| Computer Answers | 5.84 | page 60 | (Review)
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| ZX Computing | 4.84 | page 50 | (Review)
| [full page]
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| Crash | 5.84 | page 102 | (Tips)
| [full page]
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| Crash | 5.84 | page 102 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Computer & Video Games | 5.84 | page 56 | (Tips)
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| Computer & Video Games | 5.84 | page 56 | (Tips)
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 5.84 | page 143 | (Tips)
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 5.84 | page 143 | (Hack/Poke)
| [full page]
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| Computer & Video Games | 6.84 | page 144 | (Tips)
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| Computer Choice | 7.84 | page 13 | (Tips)
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| Computer Choice | 7.84 | page 13 | (Tips)
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| Crash | 8.84 | page 81 | (Tips)
| [full page]
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| Computer Choice | 9.84 | page 21 | (Tips)
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| Computer Choice | 9.84 | page 21 | (Tips)
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| Computer & Video Games | 9.84 | page 127 | (Tips)
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| Computer & Video Games | 9.84 | page 127 | (Tips)
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| Sinclair Answers | 9.84 | page 38 | (Review)
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| Big K | 10.84 | page 4 | (News/Note)
| [full page]
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| Your Spectrum | 10.84 | page 5 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Your Spectrum | 10.84 | page 5 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Games Computing | 11.84 | page 47 | (Feature - Chart Toppers '84)
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| Games Computing | 11.84 | page 47 | (Feature - Chart Toppers '84)
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 11.84 | page 543 | (Tips)
| [full page]
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 11.84 | page 543 | (Tips)
| [full page]
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| Personal Computer Games | 12.84 | page 128 | (Hack/Poke)
| [full page]
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| Personal Computer Games | 12.84 | page 128 | (Hack/Poke)
| [full page]
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| Sinclair User | 12.84 | page 88 | (Feature - Matthew Smith interview)
| [full page]
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| Sinclair User | 12.84 | page 88 | (Feature - Matthew Smith interview) | [full page]
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| Sinclair User | 12.84 | page 88 | (Feature)
| [full page]
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| TV Gamer | 12.84 | page 65 | (Tips)
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| TV Gamer | 12.84 | page 65 | (Tips)
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| C&VG Yearbook | 0.85 | page 88 | (Feature - Top Ten Games of 1984)
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| C&VG Yearbook | 0.85 | page 88 | (Feature - Top Ten Games of 1984)
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| Home Computing Weekly | 1.85 | page 342 | (Hack/Poke)
| [full page]
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| Home Computing Weekly | 1.85 | page 342 | (Hack/Poke)
| [full page]
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| Sinclair Programs | 1.85 | page 26 | (Tips)
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| Big K | 2.85 | page 66 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Big K | 2.85 | page 66 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Home Computing Weekly | 2.85 | page 443 | (Tips)
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| Home Computing Weekly | 2.85 | page 443 | (Tips)
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| Sinclair Programs | 4.85 | page 30 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Your Spectrum | 5.85 | page 11 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Sinclair Programs | 6.85 | page 30 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Computer Gamer | 8.85 | page 22 | (Feature - The Spectrum Collection - 15 classics)
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| Computer & Video Games | 8.85 | page 41 | (News/Note)
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| Computer & Video Games | 8.85 | page 41 | (News/Note)
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| Your Spectrum | 9.85 | page 11 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Your Spectrum | 9.85 | page 11 | (Hack/Poke)
| [full page]
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 10.85 | page 226 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Your Spectrum | 11.85 | page 7 | (Hack/Poke)
| [full page]
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| Your Spectrum | 11.85 | page 7 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Your Sinclair | 1.86 | page 29 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Your Sinclair | 2.86 | page 76 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Your Sinclair | 3.86 | page 54 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Your Sinclair | 3.86 | page 54 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Sinclair User | 7.86 | page 18 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Sinclair User | 7.86 | page 18 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Sinclair User | 8.86 | page 20 | (Tips)
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| Sinclair User | 8.86 | page 20 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Sinclair User | 10.86 | page 20 | (Tips)
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| Crash | 5.87 | page 65 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Your Sinclair | 6.88 | page 30 | (Tips)
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| Your Sinclair | 11.88 | page 54 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Your Sinclair | 11.88 | page 54 | (Hack/Poke)
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| Crash | 12.88 | page 60 | (Hack/Poke)
| [full page]
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| ACE | 2.89 | page 70 | (News/Note)
| [full page]
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| Crash | 5.89 | page 30 | (Review)
| [full page]
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| Your Sinclair | 6.89 | page 28 | (Tips)
| [full page]
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| Your Sinclair | 6.89 | page 28 | (Tips)
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| Crash | 1.90 | page 44 | (Tips)
| [full page]
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| ACE | 5.90 | page 51 | (Review - not a Spectrum article)
| [full page]
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| Your Sinclair | 8.90 | page 32 | (Tips)
| [full page]
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| ACE | 2.91 | page 63 | (Feature - The ACE guide to THE GREATEST GAMES of all time (probably))
| [full page]
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| Sinclair User | 10.91 | page 17 | (Tips)
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| Crash | 4.92 | page 77 | (Review - SAM Coupe version) | [full page]
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| Your Sinclair | 4.92 | page 26 | (Review - SAM Coupe version) | [full page]
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| Sinclair User | 6.92 | page 16 | (Tips)
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| MicroHobby | 11.84 | page 14 | (Nuevo) | [full page]
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| MicroHobby | 12.85 | page 35 | (Micromania) | [full page]
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| MicroHobby | 1.86 | page 31 | (Micromania) | [full page]
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| MicroHobby | 8.86 | page 31 | (Micromania) | [full page]
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| MicroHobby Especial | 11.85 | page 30 | (Supercincuenta) | [full page]
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| MicroHobby Especial | 6.86 | page 18 | (Tokes) | [full page]
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