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Caverns of the Lost Miner

Puzzle game for 8-bit Atari. The player controls a smiling head through a series of increasingly difficult caves. Each cave contains some diamonds. Once all diamonds are collected the player go to the next…

31 December 2007

Caverns of the Lost Miner is a platform developed by Baktra, released 31 December 2007 on Atari 8-bit.

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What Caverns of the Lost Miner is

Caverns of the Lost Miner is a platform game developed by Baktra and released in 2007. It is available on Atari 8-bit only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Puzzle game for 8-bit Atari. The player controls a smiling head through a series of increasingly difficult caves. Each cave contains some diamonds. Once all diamonds are collected the player go to the next cave/screen. The gameplay is heavily influenced by Manic Miner. A life is lost if the player hits dangerous objects or surfaces or falls down from the height.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Caverns of the Lost Miner launched on 31 December 2007, within three weeks of Unreal Tournament 3 Black, Patapon, Final Fantasy IV and Advance Wars: Days of Ruin.

Released around the same time: Unreal Tournament 3 Black, Patapon, Final Fantasy IV, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin.

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When did Caverns of the Lost Miner come out?
Caverns of the Lost Miner was released on 31 December 2007 for Atari 8-bit.

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