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
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Trivia
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 of JSW that met a similar fate of obscurity.
