Muggins the Spaceman
Arcade Game: Adventure · ZX-Spectrum 48K · 1 players · English
Firebird Software Ltd · 1987
Also known as Spaceman Muggins (English)
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Known Errors
<UL><LI> The game is impossible to complete within the time limit. Periodically the game reports "punctures" on the hull that must be repaired to delay the spaceship destruction. However even if you visit rooms explicitly mentioned in these reports, no holes can ever be found. <LI> Printing a map removes any robot from the room (the sprite is still there, but does not move).</UL>
- Control Option
- Cursor, Interface 2 (right), Kempston Joystick
Releases
- 1987Firebird Software Ltd Sold as Spaceman Muggins
- 1988MCM Software S.A.
Play
- MugginsTheSpaceman.tzx.zipTape image English24 KB
- MugginsTheSpaceman.tap.zipTape image English16 KB
- MugginsTheSpaceman(MCMSoftwareS.A.).tzx.zipTape image English25 KB
Documents
- MugginsTheSpaceman(EN).txtInstructions English3 KB
Other files
- Muggins the Spaceman (1987)(Firebird Software).pokPOK pokes file 0 KB
Files and rights
Distribution permission is on record, granted to another archive rather than to this one. Screens and pictures are copied here; everything else links to the archive that holds it.
- AllowedFirebird Software Ltd → WorldOfSpectrum
Credits
- Michael Foxcredited
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Scores
In the magazines
- Your Sinclair #311988 · Overall5/10
Elsewhere on the web
- WorldOfSpectrum 15 votes3.67
In the magazines 2
Your Sinclair #31Jul 1988 · p.785/105/10
Overall 5/10
Nat Pryce 5/10
BARGAIN BASEMENT And down in the Cheapies Emporium this wee (nothing over £3 considered), is Bristol's answer to Billy Idol, Nat Pryce! SPACEMAN MUGGINS Silverbird £1.99 Reviewer: Nat Pryce Why do heroes always have stupid names? I mean, Wally Week was bad enough but, Spaceman Muggins?! Anyway, it seems that Muggins must recover a crashed space ship and bung it back to the docks for repairs, after mending the engine and other vital bits of equipment. However, the engine parts were dislodged in the crash and locked in storage lockers, which can only be opened with such obvious items as rabbits and anchors. Yet, it's time to don your illogical (Captain), thinking caps, 'cos it's arcade-adventure time. Muggins could have been quite a good game. The rooms are neatly drawn in 3D, there are lots of robots to massacre (you have to take your frustration out on something when you get stuck), and loads of tough problems. Unfortunately the whole game is let down by some atrocious graphics. They are so chunky that you can't tell what anything is, and have to use an object identifier. Hardened arcade-adventure fans might like Spaceman Muggins, but I found it had little appeal.
Review1
- MicroHobby #180Nov 1988 · p.37
Related
- Ports
- (Amstrad CPC)
- Tags
- Robots, Silver Range
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- The TipshopUVL
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