Gilligan's Mine

Gilligan's Mine is a new remake of Gilligan's Gold / Bagman for the ZX Spectrum (128k machines only).

The aim of the game is to navigate the mine, using minecarts, ladders and lifts, collect all the gold bags and bring them to your wheelbarrow before the time runs out.

Bandits chase you relentlessly around the mine, but you can evade them by riding a minecart, or knock them out by dropping gold bags on their heads. There are also axes scattered around to disable the bandits. Be careful to save an axe to enter the sealed cavern.

My hope with this remake is to take what that was great about the originals (the novel concepts, use of strategy and variety of game mechanics) and fix some of the glaring flaws (the primitive graphics, finicky controls and insane difficulty level). Gilligan's Mine also adds two new levels with different graphical themes.. Note: the music and SFX in this beta are a little, er, rough.

Controls:

The game can be controlled with keyboard or joystick.

• Q: Up
• A: Down
• O: Left
• P: Right
• SPACE: Pick up / drop / use wheelbarrow / ride minecart
• G: Pause

A Few Tips:

• Think strategically: get bandits to follow you and lure them into positions where you can knock them out.
• Disable 2 or 3 bandits at a time to gain some breathing space.
• Gold bags and axes will slide down slopes and knock bandits over.
• It's helpful to carry an axe when heading into dangerous spots (waiting for a lift is particularly dicey)