![]() The good news is that he's there to wake them up and take the pair on an adventure.Īfter climbing into the television, thanks to some form of physics-defying magic, Ben and Jane slide down into Microman's spaceship, where this enigmatic 1005-year-old tells them that he studies science all day - at the moment, he's working on a round of toast. For, from out of nowhere, Erasmus Microman suddenly pops up in their television set, and changing the channel won't get rid of him. However, life is about to get more exciting for Ben and Jane. The first series begins with Ben (Nicholas Pickard) and his sister Jane (Thea Redmond) bored rigid in front of the television, watched over by their parents - an actual pair of mannequins. ![]() Anyway, the actual programme.Įrasmus Microman is a tale of two series, being both similar and yet markedly different at the same time. Along with the bonus fact that I'm a pedant of the highest order. However, the character (and the rest of the cast) all say "Microman" so, if this article achieves anything, then at least we have this fact in place. I suspect this confusion has arisen from the theme tune which, due to its strangled vocal delivery, pronounces it "Meecroman". The title character, played by the late, great Ken Campbell, goes by the name of Erasmus Microman and his surname is, in fact, pronounced as it looks and not "Meecroman". Redemption, though, is finally here, and it's time to tell you all about Erasmus Microman.įirst off, I must address a common misconception regarding the series. But what's life without a few mistakes, eh? Anyway, I've been determined to cover it for several years, and it was destined to appear in one of my books on children's TV, but this never quite happened. There are 2 adventures in this game, with only the first adventure playable in the shareware version.Ah, Erasmus Microman! Now there's a television programme I've been meaning to watch for years and years and years! Somehow, despite my love of time travel based sci-fi programmes, I completely missed it when it aired on ITV at the tail end of the 1980s. It doubled the default game speed, added joystick support, changed some of the voices and sound effects, made three rooms easier and added a save point to another. In 1999, version 2.0 was released for Win32. Version 1.5 added background music and save points, improved the sound effects and allowed multiple sounds to play simultaneously, allowed MicroMan to have more shots on the screen at a time, made the animation even smoother, and made three rooms much easier. There are platforms that will only move when MicroMan is standing on them, and platforms that will only move when he isn't standing on them. Changes from the demo include the addition of springboards, invisible platforms, and new enemies. It features a variety of mechanical enemies, three weapon upgrades, a super jump ability and a shield, moving platforms, platforms that fade in and out of existence, transporters, a mirror room where MicroMan is mirrored vertically and horizontally, and a total of 54 rooms and three bottomless pits. The hero, Bob Jones, was shrunk to micron size as part of an experiment, and is now trapped in a computer full of unfriendly robots. The Adventures of MicroMan is a complete game built with Brian Goble's Windows Animation Package, based on an earlier playable demo called MicroMan.
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