Manic Miner
Guide Willy through compact platform stages, collecting keys to unlock each exit. Time jumps over conveyor belts and crumbling floors while avoiding enemies in this GBA update of the classic.
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Provenance
worthplaying.com
European GBA photo label AGB-A4MP-EUR on the fixed gray display shell
Specification — PAL
- Platform
- Game Boy Advance
- Region
- Europe & Australia — PAL
- Release year
- 2002
- Developer
- Jester Interactive
- Publisher
- Jester Interactive
- Entry type
- Official release
- Archive code
- AGB-A4MP-EUR
About this game
Jester’s Game Boy Advance edition brings Willy’s classic platform challenge to a handheld. It includes the original 20 stages and a second mode with ten additional scenarios and refreshed graphics. Collect the keys in each single-screen stage to open the gate onward. Plan jumps across conveyor belts, fragile platforms and other obstacles, and avoid enemy contact. Progress depends on finding a safe route and timing movements carefully.
Region notes
The label printing is AGB-A4MP-EUR. GBHWDB catalogues the European game as En,Fr,De,Es,It; the retained photograph identifies the label, and software languages have not been independently checked. The old English-only assertion is therefore replaced with Unknown. No exact country launch date is asserted.
Archive notes
Main image shows the verified European AGB-A4MP-EUR physical label on the fixed gray GBA catalogue display shell. It replaces an unrelated game packaging image. Full original label artwork and printed marks are retained; no official artwork or code was repainted. The gray shell is the site display convention, not a claim about factory cartridge colour. Source photograph and attribution: Photo: ikk5; Game Boy hardware database by Gekkio and contributors; https://gbhwdb.gekkio.fi/cartridges/AGB-A4MP-0/ikk5-1.html; CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted by native perspective projection and source paper contour clipping. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ This image documents the specific printing shown. It does not verify the in-game languages or every national printing; legacy language metadata remains pending separate source review. Game background and gameplay: Jester original publisher announcement,18 January2002, reproduced by WorthPlaying: https://worthplaying.com/article/2002/1/18/news/1944-jester-interactive-to-publish-titles-on-all-platforms/ . It confirms20 original stages, new stages and updated GBA graphics. Original firsthand GBA test by Ulrich Steppberger, MANIAC9/2002, republished27May2021: https://www.maniac.de/tests/manic-miner-im-klassik-test-gba/ supports Willy, key collection, exit gates, conveyors, fragile platforms and a second mode with10 additional scenarios. No unseen manual, exact country launch date or independent software-language check is claimed. Current language metadata is now Unknown; see region notes. Existing correct native main and all image metadata retained.
Source & provenance
External reference: worthplaying.com
Catalogued from European GBA photo label AGB-A4MP-EUR on the fixed gray display shell.
Data is community-sourced and may contain errors. Unverified fields are simply omitted rather than guessed.
Reference title: Jester original publisher announcement via WorthPlaying; Ulrich Steppberger original GBA test, MANIAC 9/2002
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