Manic Miner

Manic Miner was an excelent platform/arcade game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. To play this game you had to be fast, accurate and sometimes patient.

You coldn't just kill them all and move on to the next room. As a kid, I liked this game a lot. It had a good sense of humour - on one level you had to escape running toilets, on another, there's a Donkey Kong spoof. It was ported to many other computers such as the C64 (Commodore 64), Acorn and BBC computers. It was followed by the eagerly anticipated Jet Set Willy and many unofficial (I think) sequels. Today, it's considered a classic (vintage?) platfom/arcade game, and here you can find a Windows version of this game.