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2 | Monty Mole (no relation to the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' enemy) is the hero of a series of {{Platform Game}}s from British developer [[Creator/GremlinInteractive Gremlin Graphics]]. The series began on the Platform/ZXSpectrum, with the more popular games ported to the Platform/{{Commodore 64}} and Platform/AmstradCPC. |
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4 | The moley adventures start with ''Wanted: Monty Mole'' (1984), where Monty decides to raid his local coal pit to help himself through the long winter. By the end of the game, he has acquired a bucketful of coal and a five-year prison sentence. |
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6 | The story continues in ''Monty Is Innocent'' (1985), a short ActionAdventure game in which Sam Stoat helps break Monty out of Scudmore Prison. |
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8 | In ''Monty on the Run'' (1985), Monty flees to a safe house, and, using his five-item freedom kit, navigates escape tunnels and heads for the English Channel, where a boat is waiting to take him out of the country. |
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10 | ''Auf Wiedersehen Monty'' (1987) has Monty, starting in Gibraltar, traveling through the countries of Europe and collecting enough money to buy the Greek island of Montos, where he retires. |
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12 | Attached to the January 1988 issue of ''Your Sinclair'' was a game titled ''Moley Christmas'', where Monty shepherds the production of a Monty Mole game and distributes it to faithful readers. |
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14 | One more game was produced, ''Impossamole'' (1990), developed by Creator/CoreDesign for various computers and the Platform/TurboGrafx16. Here Monty Mole is transformed by aliens into a caped superhero. |
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16 | !!Tropes: |
17 | * AntiHero: Despite being referred to as "our hero" a few times, Monty's actually pretty self-serving and rarely does things to help other people, even doing something illegal in most of the games he appears in (though he doesn't really directly hurt anybody either). |
18 | * AWinnerIsYou: Though perhaps "A Loser is You" would be more apt. After completing the final room in the first game, the ending is simply a text crawl detailing that Monty was arrested for all the coal he stole. |
19 | * DroughtLevelOfDoom: In ''Impossamole''[='s=] SlippySlideyIceWorld, you are bound to take a lot of unavoidable damage from GoddamnedBats and MalevolentArchitecture, and healing items and powerups are very scarce here. |
20 | * FlipScreenScrolling: Most of the games, with the exception of the side-scrolling ''Impossamole''. |
21 | * InventoryManagementPuzzle: Pretty much the whole challenge of ''Auf Wiedersehen Monty''. Items are collected when running into them and only relinquished when used, and your inventory maxes out at four items - you can be stuck holding the wrong thing for a long time if you're not careful (like the football, obtained very early in southeast Spain; but it'll be a while before you get to Turin to use it), and your inventory also includes your air tickets, making it very easy to trap yourself. |
22 | * MooksButNoBosses: The games have enemies, but don't really have any bosses or villains, with the exception of "Impossamole" |
23 | * NintendoHard: Very much so. Tricky jumps + oddly timed traps + fast moving enemies X OneHitpointWonder = Frustration. |
24 | * OddballInTheSeries: ''Monty Is Innocent'', which is not a PlatformGame and does not star Monty. |
25 | * OneHitpointWonder: Monty, except in ''Impossamole''. |
26 | * ReformulatedGame: A Famicom Disk System version of ''Monty on the Run'' was released by Creator/{{Jaleco}} in Japan (alternate title: ''Monty no Doki Doki Daisassou''), and is almost completely different: in particular, Monty in this version is not a mole. The Platform/PCEngine version of ''Impossamole'' is also very different from the computer version. |
27 | * SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom: The crush pillars. |
28 | * UnexpectedGameplayChange: ''Monty on the Run'' has a driving stage, "Drive Sir Clive's C5." |
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