A China Miner Christmas (C64)

Background

Miner Wally (I see what they did there...) returns in this Christmas-themed revamp of the infamously difficult C64 single-screen platformer from 1984. But a bit of snow and a Santa costume isn't the only thing that's changed, Wally has now developed his athletic abilities beyond recognition to give you the player a fighting chance of actually completing a level and hopefully having a lot more fun along the way.....

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What's different?

The entire game has been re-written from the ground up complete with 'modern' controls and physics together with fairer collision detection to allow your character to nimbly traverse around the screen in a more contemporary fashion, whilst retaining the THIRTY fiendish level designs from the original that 99.99% of players never managed to reach, due to the bizarre control scheme and need for split-second timing.

While a certain level of experimentation and practice is still required to progress far in the game, you've now at least a chance to get out of sticky situations with some good old fashioned seat-of-the-pants reactions!

Another major change is that you no longer die when falling from a platform, and because this means the slides are no longer necessary to complete levels,  additional extra lives are placed on them to incentivise their use. And because a time bonus is also awarded for completing a level before the snow piles up completely, earning further extra lives for each 1,250 points scored is also easier. 

Finally, when you pick up items and then lose a life, they remain collected meaning you don't have to re-play the entire level from scratch.

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