Hobbyist Hobbits Smithing Llama's On The Spectrum

I still can't really figure that picture out, it's so bad. 

Lisa Simpson? Smaug the green eyed cat?

Somehow that loading screen for 'The Hobbit' image helped sell 100's of 1000's of copies of games,
and made computer games seem so much more respectable in the UK, even 'tho it was from a games company in Australia (Melbourne House). It might have been the steep cost of the game.

Respectable enough for this smart-looking chap to sell similar amounts of his games in the UK.

'Interview with Matthew Smith 
| Maker of Manic Miner (ZX Spectrum Game) 
| From Bedrooms To Billions'

'Matthew Smith and Manic Miner on Thumb Candy'

That's what British culture does to you. Normally at the time in the UK, they wouldn't show someone looking like that on TV.

'Jeff Minter mini-documentary'

Jeff Minter aged rather better than The Megatree (Matt Smith's third Manic Miner game (not The Taxman)). Is he protected by the dolly lama (Dhalai Lama), the devil, perchance? As for TxK, I have it on the PSVita, that eyeball nonsense, didn't work, not overstimulated.

'Steve Turner Interview - Revival Solstice 2016'

'Atari Is Using Me to Attack Jeff Minter and TxK'