''Moley Christmas'' is a

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released in

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for the

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. It is the fifth game in the ''

Monty Mole ''Wanted: Monty Mole'' is a platform video game published in July 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 home computers. It is the first game released by Gremlin Graphics and the first game in the ''Monty Mole'' series. Monty Mole is a fic ...

'' series and a sequel to the 1987 video game ''

Auf Wiedersehen Monty ''Auf Wiedersehen Monty'' (German for "Goodbye Monty") is a computer game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Commodore 16. Released in 1987, it is the fourth game in the ''Monty Mole'' series. It was written by Peter Harrap ...

''. It was available exclusively on the cover of ''

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'' magazine.

Story

Released as a covertape with ''

'' magazine. Monty is tasked with recovering the

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to his latest game and getting it to the duplication plant.

Gameplay

''Moley Christmas'' featured similar gameplay to the previous game in the series, ''

''. The player must guide Monty around various screens, jumping, climbing, dodging enemies, and collecting items. The game is made up of six screens, which the player must navigate to bring the game from the programmers to the magazine's readers.

History

A competition was run when the game was released. The final screen contained a message to the player. The first person to complete the game and send this message to the ''

'' competition address would receive 15 games from the ''Your Sinclair'' library. Six

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also received three games each. In a retrospective article from 2003, ''

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'' called ''Moley Christmas'' an "especially popular" cover game, and further praised it as a "great example" of video game publishers using Christmas to market their games to a wider audience.

References

External links

* {{Monty Mole 1987 video games Action-adventure games Christmas video games Gremlin Interactive games Monty Mole Video game sequels ZX Spectrum games ZX Spectrum-only games Video games developed in the United Kingdom