Other prominent games developers include Julian Gollop ( Chaos, Rebelstar, X-COM series ), Matthew Smith ( Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy ), Jon Ritman ( Match Day, Head Over Heels ), Jonathan " Joffa " Smith ( Ping Pong, Batman: The Caped Crusader, Mikie, HyperSports ), The Oliver Twins ( the Dizzy series ), Clive Townsend ( Saboteur ), Sandy White ( Ant Attack, I of the mask ), Pete Cooke ( Tau Ceti ), Mike Singleton ( The Lords of Midnight, War In Middle Earth ), and Alan Cox.

A third game in the series was planned, Miner Willy Meets The Taxman.

The series started in 1983 with the release of Manic Miner, and was followed up a year later with Jet Set Willy ( one of the best selling video games of all time ) and Jet Set Willy II.

The game is a sequel to Manic Miner ( 1983 ), and is the second game in the immensely popular Miner Willy Series.

A tired Miner Willy has to tidy up all the items left around his house after a huge party.

Miner Willy in the Cold StoreFrom the ZX Spectrum version

Software Projects made ports to the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST but canceled them before they were released, although Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy II were later released on the Commodore Amiga.

* Miner Willy series of games

The following platform games are in the same mould as the Miner Willy series of games with the purpose of the game being to collect objects to complete the scenes in the game.

The game has been cited as the inspiration behind the Miner Willy series of games produced by Bug-Byte Software.

It is the first game in the Miner Willy series and among the early titles in the platform game genre.

The sequel to Manic Miner is Jet Set Willy.

* Miner Willy series of games

He is best known for his games Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy for the ZX Spectrum, released in 1983 and 1984 respectively.

Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy are two of the most famous and popular ZX Spectrum games, reputedly co-written with renowned programmer Andrew Dryden.

This was accompanied by a number of other remakes ( Manic Miner PC, Jet Set Willy PC, Splat PC ) which had already been previously made available prior to the formation of Retrospec.

Over the years, Retrospec has had the following members: Neil Walker, Allan Bentham, Graham Goring, Andy Noble, John blythe, Jeff Braine, Dan Condon Jones, Adam Dawes, Peter Hanratty, Russell Hoy, Richard Jordan, Peter Jovanovic, Tomaz Kac, Arif Majothi, Ignacio Perez Gil, Matthew Smith ( no relation to Matthew Smith ( games programmer ) of Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy fame ), Andrew Zariffis, John Dow, Tero Turtiainen, Chris Wilde, Darren Salty.

Officially, Jet Set Willy II: The Final Frontier is the last of the Miner Willy series, although numerous unofficial sequels, remakes, homages and updates have been released, even up to this day.

* 1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories ( SDL ) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.

Minimotif Miner is a bioinformatics tool that searches protein sequence queries for a known protein targeting sequence motifs.

* June 16 – The Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California as Software Development Laboratories ( SDL ) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates.

The air-driven calliope is sometimes called a calliaphone, the name given it by its inventor, but the " Calliaphone " name is registered by the Miner Company for instruments produced under the Tangley name.

Miner County is a county located in the U. S. state of South Dakota.

The county is divided into sixteen townships: Adams, Beaver, Belleview, Canova, Carthage, Clearwater, Clinton, Grafton, Green Valley, Henden, Howard, Miner, Redstone, Rock Creek, Roswell, Vermillion.

* Bill Miner, Canada's first train robber, is buried in Milledgeville's Memory Hill Cemetery.

Chazy is home to Chazy Central Rural School, and Miner Institute.

Miner Institute's campus is also home to William Miner's preserved One Room Schoolhouse.

Lake Alice, small lake located adjacent to Miner Institute, is name after William Miner's wife.

Alice T. Miner Colonial Collection is an 1824 classic Colonial Revival house museum with period furnishings.

Canova is a town in Miner County, South Dakota, United States.

Carthage is a city in Miner County, South Dakota, United States.

Howard is a city in Miner County, South Dakota, United States.

It is the county seat of Miner County.

Roswell is a town in Miner County, South Dakota, United States.

Vilas is a town in Miner County, South Dakota, United States.

The unincorporated community of New Miner is located in the town.

Miner is a city in Mississippi and Scott counties in the U. S. state of Missouri.

Miner is located at ( 36. 892082 ,-89. 535861 ).

Miner is located at the southern end of Interstate 57 ( I-57 ).

Although popular family restaurant Lambert's Cafe is generally referred to as being located in Sikeston, the restaurant is actually located just inside the Miner city limits.

Lambert's originated in Sikeston, but moved closer to I-55, which is located on the eastern side of Miner.