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''Miner 2049er'' is a platform video game created by Bill Hogue that was released in 1982 by Big Five Software. It was developed for the Atari 8-bit family and widely ported to other systems. The game was licensed in conjunction with International Computer Group. At the time of its release, ''Miner 2049er'' was notable for having ten different screens, which was a large number for a platform game. For comparison, the ''Donkey Kong'' arcade game had four screens, and many home ports didn't include all of them. The title "Miner 2049er" evoked a 21st-century take on the California Gold Rush of around 1849, in which the gold miners and prospectors were nicknamed "49ers." Unlike most of the home computer versions, ''Miner 2049er'' for the Atari 8-bit family was released on 16K ROM cartridge with the high price, for 1982, of US$49.95. ==Development== Under the name Big Five Software, Bill Hogue programmed commercial computer games in the late 1970s for Radio Shack's TRS-80 Model I home computer. He created several games patterned after actual arcade games, such as ''Super Nova'' (''Asteroids''), ''Attack Force'' (''Targ''), ''Cosmic Fighter'' (''Astro Fighter''), ''Galaxy Invasion'' (''Galaxian''), ''Meteor Mission II'' (''Lunar Rescue''), ''Robot Attack'' (''Berzerk''), and ''Defense Command'' (''Missile Command''). ''Robot Attack'' was the first commercial game for the TRS-80 to feature digitized voice. Hogue was originally going to write Miner 2049er for the TRS-80 Model I, but Radio Shack discontinued it in mid-1982, so he instead was forced to develop the game on the Atari 800. Due to a production delay, it was first released on the Apple II. A string of ports followed for the IBM PC, Commodore 64, VIC-20, Atari 5200, Atari 2600, Texas Instruments TI/99-4A, and Colecovision. The Atari 2600 version was too big to fit in a 4K cartridge ROM, so two separate cartridges were released, each containing three selected levels. After a false start in 1984 with the cancelled release of the announced sequel ''Scraper Caper'', Hogue in 1985 released the official sequel, ''Bounty Bob Strikes Back''. However, it never achieved the same level of success as its predecessor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miner 2049er」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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