Miner 2049'er - Commodore 64 Retro Replay
0Ahh the Commodore 64! Been awhile since playing any game from this computer.. Played some Miner 2049'er and have fond memories of this game as a high school kid and his friend competing to see who could get the furthest..
A little about the game:
Miner 2049er is a platform game created by Bill Hogue that was released in 1982 by Big Five Software. It was developed for the Atari 8-bit family and widely converted to other systems. The title "Miner 2049er" evokes a 21st-century take on the circa-1849 California Gold Rush in which the gold miners and prospectors were nicknamed "49ers". It was the first Atari computer game, and by far the biggest release, from the previously TRS-80 focused company.
A key selling point was having ten different screens, which was a large number for a platform game at the time. For comparison, Donkey Kong (1981) has four screens (and its console versions only two or three).
Plot:
Bounty Bob is a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on a mission to search through all of Nuclear Ned's abandoned uranium mines for the treacherous Yukon Yohan. Bob must claim each section of each mine by running over it. There are a wide variety of futuristic obstacles that he must deal with such as matter transporters, hydraulic scaffolds, and jet-speed floaters; plus, he must also avoid radioactive creatures that have been left behind in the mines.
Developer(s) - Big Five Software
Eastridge Technology (Game Boy)
Publisher(s) - Big Five Software
Tigervision (2600)
Designer - Bill Hogue
Programmer - Nick Eastridge (Game Boy)
Composer - Rich Shemaria (Game Boy)
Platform(s) - Apple II Atari 8-bit Atari 2600 Atari 5200 ColecoVision Commodore 64 Fujitsu FM-7 IBM PCIntellivisionPC-88Sharp X1Sony SMC-777 Super Cassette Vision Thomson MO5TI-99/4 AVIC-20
Re-releases GameBoy Windows Mobile BlackBerry iOS
Release - NA: September 1, 1982
Genre - Platform
Mode - Single-player