Manic Miner is coming out on Xbox 360

[toythatkills]

As title, basically. Officially licensed and as close to perfectly emulated as they could get it.

I figure there are enough people here of a certain age that this news will excite!

[Mayhem]

Emulated for... Spectrum? Definitely odd I will say... a month back I'd be claiming a joke heh.

[Kieran76]

Might be nice to have another visit to Eugene's Lair.

[FelixofMars]

I do wonder if you did a few games based of Spectrum classics who would buy them?

[mugetsu]

jsw 1 and 2 maybe but manic.........no thanks.

[randombs]

What about PSN?

[toythatkills]

jsw 1 and 2 maybe but manic.........no thanks.

Yeah, but I figure if this does well we'll absolutely see more stuff. They have the rights to JSW so the possibility's there.

What about PSN?

This is gonna be an XBLIG, so there's no chance at all of a PSN release, I reckon.

[eastyy]

i am of that certain age remember playing it as a kid but i think for this it will have dated quite a bit

[funkydan]

http://www.firebox.com/product/5197/...t-Changing-Mug

[randombs]

@ttk: Whoops I missed that. I didn't mean it like those people who asked why Sonic wasn't out on SNES

[charlesr]

Manic Miner does seem a strange choice. It's an ok game, but if you have the rights to JSWII, why not just start there.

[Jay]

Because Manic Miner is a quality platformer and JSW is and always was a terrible, terrible game?

[Brad]

Perils of willy was the best of the lot.

Vic20 forever!

[mugetsu]

ah the banyan tree...............the hardest and most frustraiting room in the series.

[rmoxon]

So they are basically just emulating the spectrum game? It's not a remake?

And they expect more than 5 people to buyit?