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| - Jet Set Willy is a computer game originally released in 1984. It was released first on the ZX Spectrum, but was later released on multiple platforms. It is a sequel to Manic Miner. The plot is that Willy had bought his new house with the money from the previous game, but it is unexplored and full of what are probably the previous owner's experiments. After a celebratory party, the place is chaos and his housekeeper Maria won't let him go to bed until he sorts it out. Willy must tidy up the mansion so he can get some much needed sleep. A very faithful java version can be played here.
- Collecting the "bottles" (which glow in rainbow colours, just like the real thing) requires a great deal of skill and patience from the player. Such things were commonly required of game-players in Thatcher's Britain but thanks to Tony Blair and New Labour everyone is soft now and expects to be able to complete a game just by moving the controller around, that's if they don't just get the State to do it for them. Unrealistically, Willy could jump very high consistently and made a strange noise as he did so; realistically, though, if he fell too far he would die and make a loud "squeak" noise; although the player was spared the sight of Willy's body bursting on impact.
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| - Collecting the "bottles" (which glow in rainbow colours, just like the real thing) requires a great deal of skill and patience from the player. Such things were commonly required of game-players in Thatcher's Britain but thanks to Tony Blair and New Labour everyone is soft now and expects to be able to complete a game just by moving the controller around, that's if they don't just get the State to do it for them. Unrealistically, Willy could jump very high consistently and made a strange noise as he did so; realistically, though, if he fell too far he would die and make a loud "squeak" noise; although the player was spared the sight of Willy's body bursting on impact. The mansion house was full of "guardians" which would move up and down or, for variety, left and right. Whichever direction they had chosen to go, Willy had to avoid them all. Touching these monsters would make our white hero squeak and lose him a life, just like a white mouse touching a mouse-trap; one that is going left and right or up and down. When Willy ran out of lives he would be squashed by an enormous foot. The owner of the foot remains a mystery to this day, despite my standing with a megaphone outside Matthew Smith's house demanding answers and the fascist local police who stopped me.
- Jet Set Willy is a computer game originally released in 1984. It was released first on the ZX Spectrum, but was later released on multiple platforms. It is a sequel to Manic Miner. The plot is that Willy had bought his new house with the money from the previous game, but it is unexplored and full of what are probably the previous owner's experiments. After a celebratory party, the place is chaos and his housekeeper Maria won't let him go to bed until he sorts it out. Willy must tidy up the mansion so he can get some much needed sleep. With regard to gameplay, Jet Set Willy is one of the first multi-room (Manic Miner had single room levels) Gotta Collect Them All Platform Games. There is a sequel, Jet Set Willy 2: The Final Frontier, which is an extended version of the original (spawned as a result of porting to the Amstrad CPC and back again), with the unwinnable condition fixed. A very faithful java version can be played here. There is a user-made add-on for the freeware game Rocks N Diamonds called Super Jetset Wily Bros 3, the level being an experiment in platforming.
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