--- title: "Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum HD - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United Kingdom | Apple App Store" description: "NEWS FLASH! - the Manic Miner® app - a perfectly formed replica of the much-loved home computer game, with 3D voxel-style graphics - AVAILABLE NOW Search the App Store for “the Manic Miner® app”. IM" --- # Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum HD — United Kingdom ![Manic Miner App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/c8/46/d5/c846d555-0901-7e6f-6fd7-131bb509013e/AppIcon-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-85-220-7.png/434x0w.png) **Developer:** [Elite Systems](https://apptail.io/developer/elite-systems-ZnC) (United Kingdom) **Category:** Games **Rating:** 2.5/5 (37 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** com.elitesystemsltd.manicipad **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** United Kingdom **Version:** v1.7 (released 2018-11-16) **Original Release:** 2010-12-20 **Languages:** English **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/app/id407872635) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/manic-miner-zx-spectrum-hd-iVCg/united-kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/manic-miner-zx-spectrum-hd-iVCg/united-kingdom) ## Manic Miner Description NEWS FLASH! - the Manic Miner® app - a perfectly formed replica of the much-loved home computer game, with 3D voxel-style graphics - AVAILABLE NOW Search the App Store for “the Manic Miner® app”. IMPORTANT: To 'Save' the game go 'Back' to the Main Menu before quitting the App. Manic Miner for the ZX Spectrum (an 8-bit personal home computer released in the UK in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd, which sold in excess of 5 million units worldwide) is one of THE defining games of the 1980s. Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum is offered as an in-app purchase from within the Recreated ZX Spectrum app. (The in-app is priced at £2.99. The Recreated ZX Spectrum app includes more ZX Spectrum games plus Sinclair BASIC). Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum is also available in this stand-alone form but does not include any other ZX Spectrum games. Manic Miner: ZX Spectrum is the 100% original ZX Spectrum game, written in 1983 and is brought to you - as an officially licenced product - utilizing our ZX Spectrum: Elite Collection technology. Featuring: - portrait and landscape play / display modes - iDaptive (user-definable, game-specific joystick, keypad & canvass) Controls - (Google: "Tiny URL 22qh8hl") for more info - ‘auto save’, on exiting the game - authentic 'Spectrum' sound Manic Miner is a platform game originally written for the ZX Spectrum and released by Bug-Byte in 1983 (later re-released by Software Projects). It is the first game in the Miner Willy series and among the pioneers of the platform game genre. The game itself was inspired by the Atari 800 game Miner 2049er. It has since been ported to numerous home computers and video game consoles. At the time, its stand-out features included in-game music and sound effects, excellent playability, and colourful graphics, which were well designed for the graphical limitations of the ZX Spectrum. On the Spectrum this was the first game with in-game music, the playing of which required constant CPU attention and was thought impossible. It was cleverly achieved by constantly alternating CPU time between the music and the game (which accounts for the music's stuttery rhythm). The in-game music is In the Hall of the Mountain King from Edvard Grieg's music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. The music that plays during the title screen is an arrangement of An der schönen blauen Donau (popularly known as The Blue Danube), a waltz by Johann Strauß. Manic Miner for the ZX Spectrum contains the following 20 rooms: 1. Central Cavern 2. The Cold Room 3. The Menagerie 4. Abandoned Uranium Workings 5. Eugene's Lair 6. Processing Plant 7. The Vat 8. Miner Willy meets the Kong Beast 9. Wacky Amoebatrons 10. The Endorian Forest 11. Attack of the Mutant Telephones 12. Return of the Alien Kong Beast 13. Ore Refinery 14. Skylab Landing Bay 15. The Bank 16. The Sixteenth Cavern 17. The Warehouse 18. Amoebatrons' Revenge 19. Solar Power Generator 20. The Final Barrier In each of the twenty caverns are several flashing objects, which the player must collect before Willy's oxygen supply runs out. Once the player has collected the objects in one cavern, they must then go to the now-flashing portal, which will take them to the next cavern. The player must avoid enemies (listed in the cassette inlay) as Poisonous Pansies, Spiders, Slime, and Manic Mining Robots, which move backwards and forwards along a predefined length at constant speeds. Willy can also be killed by falling too far, so players must time the precision of jumps and other movements to prevent such falls or collisions with the enemies. The game ends when the player has no lives left; extra lives are gained every 10000 points. About Elite®: Elite Systems Ltd was incorporated in England in 1984. ## Manic Miner Screenshots - [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/51/2d/0d/512d0df0-0b94-6b70-30d3-0d2cc9ec25c4/pr_source.jpg/2048x2732.png) - [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/42/fd/d4/42fdd4c7-ca65-a69a-99a9-880a027a1733/pr_source.jpg/2048x2732.png) - [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/e0/cf/62/e0cf6233-ddcf-6a6e-cee8-2531e2a20784/pr_source.jpg/2048x2732.png) - [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/4f/3a/ea/4f3aeac0-1f60-ea4f-2609-3718e5699624/pr_source.jpg/2048x2732.png) - [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/a6/3e/ce/a63ece11-f672-e3e6-6d57-6457ae59c967/pr_source.jpg/2048x2732.png) - [Screenshot 6](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/37/ef/15/37ef1548-a775-227c-1384-421442b68965/pr_source.jpg/2048x2732.png) ## Manic Miner Rating Breakdown in United Kingdom - 5 stars: 10 (27%) - 4 stars: 4 (11%) - 3 stars: 2 (5%) - 2 stars: 1 (3%) - 1 stars: 20 (54%) ## Manic Miner Reviews in United Kingdom ### *---- "Absolute rubbish" Do yourself a favour and don’t bother spending any money on this load of rubbish -- cyberjohn70, 2023-12-11 ### *---- "Controls don’t appear on iPhone" No matter what I do or set in settings it’s just a grey box at the bottom of the screen and you have to guess where the buttons are. £2.99 wasted. Shame. Don’t buy. -- Madcal, 2023-05-06 ### *---- "Broken" Controls don’t work. Impossible to play since an iOS update a while back. Don’t bother with Elite games as they’re broken and the dev doesn’t care. What a waste and such a shame as Elite were legendary in the 80s and now look. A joke -- psj3809, 2023-03-02 ### *---- "Manic miner" AVOID the game doesn’t work, nothing happens when i click ‘play’ i contacted the company but zero response. -- kdyscott, 2022-06-27 ### *---- "Do not pay for this" I downloaded it and it won’t play or work I tried multiple times -- red 108, 2022-01-06 ### *---- "Scam!!! App does not work do not buy this app" Waste of money does not work. Should not be allowed for sale! -- Dougiediamond, 2020-12-12 ### *---- "Avoid." Find myself randomly tapping all over the screen waiting for it to do something as the buttons are invisible - even trying to edit them makes no difference. Load of crap and waste of £2.99 - feel conned -- Tomblipoo_2_u, 2020-10-03 ### ***-- "works on iPad but no music" Works on iPad but no music playing. Wouldn’t expect much for under £3 however :-) -- R2D2_1973, 2020-08-22 ### *---- "Doesn’t work" As of August 2020, this game is unplayable due to the fact you can’t sed the controls!! Latest ios on latest iphone. -- Ray vonn, 2020-08-16 ### ***-- "Manic miner" Great 80’s games - plays just the same way and the music is the same. Bad point - needs updating as will not play on my iPhone 10 anymore - been like that for a good year now Helpppppppp -- minibee, 2020-06-03 ### *---- "Manic Miner" Doesn’t work - you cannot even start the game. Don’t bother. Really disappointed. -- Supersynths, 2020-05-15 ### *---- "Help please?" I’ve downloaded this and paid for it, but it won’t work? Can someone please help or could I get a refund? -- ONEANDNINE, 2020-05-01 ### *---- "Does not work with latest OS" I purchased this in October 2019 and it did not work on latest OS. Very disappointed that it’s still for sale when it does not work -- Wayno100@yahoo, 2019-11-20 ### *---- "Does not work at all. Start doesn’t work." Does not work at all. Start doesn’t work. I am on up to date iPhone X iOS 13.something... just don’t work at all... Shame as loved this game.. Please update or my refund money..👍👍 -- Lloyd1973234433(, 2019-11-09 ### **--- "Unresponsive controls spoils the game" A good version of the classic game, but totally let down by unresponsive controls. A real shame. -- Moonsurf1, 2019-04-28 ### ****- "iOS 11" Please update for the people who have already paid, like me. Thx -- bigape, 2018-10-05 ### *---- "iOS 11 support" Where is iOS 11 support? -- Plasyboy, 2018-07-02 ### *---- "Update" I paid for this app and now I can’t play as no update is available -- Tlm3011, 2018-03-04 ### *---- "Paid money and no update for ios11" When will we see update to ios11 Love this game and paid for it -- Alan..79, 2018-01-16 ### ****- "iOS 11 support" Any chance of a update for iOS 11 support??? -- Savage50K, 2017-11-09 [View all Manic Miner reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://apptail.io/account/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## Manic Miner Discovered Keywords - manic miner - zx spectrum hd --- ## About AppTail [AppTail](https://apptail.io) is a mobile app intelligence platform providing app analytics, ASO (App Store Optimization) tools, keyword tracking, competitor analysis, revenue estimates, and review monitoring for iOS App Store apps. 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