Or 'The Full Monty (Python)' It had bugged me, since the very first time I played the original SAM version of Manic Miner , that the iconic 'Boot Crush' game over sequence of the original Spectrum game had been removed. In its place, Miner Willy is unceremoniously disintegrated by a multicolour death beam (per the Solar Beam caverns) from above, without even the flashing background – which would, I'd have thought, be easier to accomplish on the SAM due to its clever palette switching tricks. It looked cheap and lazy, the sound effects were dull, and the sight of Miner Willy crumbling just didn't quite hit the right note. Of course, having been brought up on a steady diet of British absurdist comedy, the 'Boot Crush' felt to me like a nod to Monty Python , making it all the more perfect, and all the more important to ensure it resumed its proper place within the game. (Of course, it was Jet Set Willy that committed to the full Pythonesque attitude, wit...