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Dumb Miner
Author	Woody
Filename	dumbminer.szx
Year	2008
Position	119
Format	ZX Spectrum 48K
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Description	It had to happen and finally it has! A derivative of a rather popular and well known Matthew Smith game has now arrived at CSSCGC 2008. You may have thought the original was tough although I think I can safely say that this one is even tougher, in fact impossible! You may find yourself somewhat amused or perhaps perplexed. If it is any clue as to what to expect, then Woody writes:- Hmm, now do I get away with this attached entry ;) Only joking! Well it is in the compo, so Woody did at least get away with entering it and let's face it the compo badly needed another submission at this stage!
Comments	On receiving this entry, I immediately contacted Matthew Smith to elicit his comments on it, to which he replied Utterly Brilliant! (or was that David Darling?). Not really of course, but I'll simply describe this one as a copy of Manic Miner that has been POKEd to make Miner Willy fall through floors thereby rendering the game somewhat amusing yet completely unplayable. We like a bit of variety in the compo and I guess this sort of thing has never been submitted before. So I'll just slap an appropriate low score of 3.57 on it and be on my merry way, hoping wholeheartedly that next year we may see Dumb Set Willy and wondering what possible thing another compo judge could write about something like this! So if you wanted to lose the compo Woody, then this was a pretty decent attempt, not too far off the target!