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Converting games from more popular machines to less popular machines is becoming a common idea with many software houses. Manic Miner, in my opinion, will turn out to be a best seller for the BBC B. To my surprise the game is identical except for the fact that only four colours are used and there are four less screens.

Despite this minor (sorry!) failing, the game is nothing short of brilliant. For those of you who aren't acquainted with the Manic Miner for the Spectrum, I'll fill you in. You control miner Willy who has stumbled across an abandoned mine. Unfortunately whoever abandoned this mine forgot to stop all the mining robots who now try to get in miner Willy's way, while he collects the goodies. The goodies consist of gold keys, gems and gold boxes and basically all the other things you find in your average abandoned mine.

There are sixteen screens all together, each only accessible after all the items from the previous screens have been collected. Manic Miner will provide hours of fun for any Beeb owner and so is a must especially at such a price.