Monty Mole

Okay, so bear in mind that I can't touch on every single mascot-esque character from even back in this time period, but I'm gonna keep going and try and, and hit a few more key ones.

And this is where I want to talk about Monty Mole.

Um, Wanted: Monty Mole was a platform video game published in July 1984 for the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64 micro home computers, and it was the first game released by the company Gremlin Graphics.

And obviously at the time they wouldn't have known this, but it was the first game in the Monty Mole series.

Monty was made by Ian Stewart, the director of the company.

So we'll start with the first game.

In Wanted: Monty Mole, you as the player control Monty, and you travel around a coal mine collecting pieces of coal and other miscellaneous objects.

You avoid different enemies, and it's pretty much a typical platform game from that day and age.