Description
Cult hero Matthew Smith followed up
Manic Miner with a seminal platform game. Having struck it lucky in the first game, Willy now owns a lavish mansion with over 60 rooms linked in a 3D plane, and must tidy it all before his housekeeper will let him sleep.
Each room has its own hazards, such as spikes, revolving razors and ropes. The route through the house must be navigated carefully, due to the multiple entrances to some rooms - this is perhaps the first action game where mapping is an advantage. Another innovation, to the chagrin of players everywhere, is manual protection - a sheet of colour-coded numbers.
Alternate Titles
- "La Casa de Jack" -- Spanish title
- "Jetset Willie" -- Alternate title (C64 media)
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Trivia
Amstrad version
The Amstrad version of
Jet Set Willy was the original official expansion of
Jet Set Willy by
Software Projects. This expansion was written by
Derrick P. Rowson and
Steve Wetheril, and contains 132 rooms. This expanded version is the basis of
Jet Set Willy II: The Final Frontier.
Author
The author of
Jet Set Willy wrote the game and its predecessor
Manic Miner before he was 18.
Music
The music playing in the background is
If I were a Rich Man from the US Broadway musical
Fiddler on the Roof, first performed in 1964.
Ports
Circa 1989,
Paul Taylor and
Carl Whitwell worked on an Atari ST conversion of this game for
Software Projects -- late enough in the title's life that the painstaking port (disassembled code read off the Spectrum's monitor and typed into the Atari's keyboard, screen data dumped as hex and dictated to a typist) was never released to the commercial market. During the same period
Shahid Ahmad worked on an Amiga port that met a similar fate of obscurity.
Awards
- Retro Gamer Magazine
- Issue 37 - #6 in the "Top 25 Platformers of All Time" (poll)
- Happy Computer
- Issue 04/1985 - #3 Best Game in 1984 (Readers' Vote) (Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum version)
Information also contributed by
PCGamer77 and
Pseudo_Intellectual.
