{"id":30414,"date":"2026-01-20T16:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30414"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:58:08","slug":"the-monty-mole-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/features\/the-monty-mole-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monty Mole Collection set to Burrow Up onto PC &amp; Xbox This Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Monty Mole Collection<\/strong> is a new compilation of six <strong>Monty Mole<\/strong> platform games that were originally released on the 8-bit <strong>ZX Spectrum<\/strong>, <strong>Commodore 64<\/strong>, \u00a0and <strong>Amstrad CPC<\/strong> home computers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The games that will be included in <strong>The Monty Mole Collection<\/strong> are: <strong>Wanted! Monty Mole<\/strong>; <strong>Monty is Innocent<\/strong>; <strong>Sam Stoat: Safebreaker<\/strong>; <strong>Monty on the Run<\/strong>; <strong>Auf Wiedersehen Monty<\/strong>; and <strong>Moley Christmas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Monty Mole<\/strong> series of adventure platformer games for home microcomputers was the brainchild of <strong>Peter Harrap<\/strong>, the teenage son of a mining inspector, and was inspired by the 1984 mining strikes in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the six classic <strong>Monty Mole<\/strong> games, <strong>The Monty Mole Collection<\/strong> will also offer modern quality of life improvements, such as: display Filters; suspend points; and gameplay rewind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Monty Mole Collection<\/strong> has been developed by<a href=\"https:\/\/imaginesoftware.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Imagine Software Ltd<\/a>, which is a new and expanding games developer working on a huge range of iconic retro games, remastered classics as well as new and original IP on all current gen platforms, and it is being published by <strong>Pixel Games UK<\/strong>, which \u00a0is the games publishing arm of Andrews UK Limited which has been a leading indie media publisher and distributor for 23 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Monty Mole Collection<\/strong> launches on <strong>Xbox Series X|S<\/strong> and <strong>PC<\/strong> via the M<strong>icrosoft Store<\/strong> on January 23rd 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Monty Mole Collection | Xbox Series X\/S - Windows | Official Trailer\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cVwZ9J6_zJk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monty Mole Collection is a new compilation of six Monty Mole platform games that were originally released on the 8-bit ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, \u00a0and Amstrad CPC home computers. &nbsp; The games that will be included in The Monty Mole Collection are: Wanted! Monty Mole; Monty is Innocent; Sam Stoat: Safebreaker; Monty on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[128,129,130],"class_list":["post-30414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-monty-mole-collection","tag-pc","tag-xbox"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31074,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30414\/revisions\/31074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}