JSW Central - Resource Centre for ZX Spectrum games based on Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines

Resource centre for ZX Spectrum games
using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines

II. Jet Set Willy (JSW48)

A. New games using Matthew Smith's original Jet Set Willy game engine for the 48K Spectrum and its modifications

47. Escape of the Snails

Also known as: Jet Set Willy: Escape of the Snails

Author: Hervé Ast

Year: 2006

Reissued: 2007 (additional language version)

Languages: English, French, German

Escape of the Snails is the only gamma-released JSW48 game by Hervé Ast (who is also the author of one JSW128 game and two JSW64 games). It was released in three language versions (originally in English and French in October 2006; the German version followed in March 2007).

GAME PREMISE: Willy finds himself in Maria's mother's old and strange house. He and Maria were invited for a meal of snails. However, Willy can't bring himself to eat the poor creatures. Taking advantage of Maria and her mother's absence, Willy sneaks into the kitchen to release all the snails, which were kept in a plastic bag on the table. The snails escape throughout the house! When Maria and her mother return, they discover the snails escaping as soon as they step inside. Maria's mother is furious, and Maria is also displeased. She immediately insists that Willy collect all the snails! Willy agrees, only because he plans to release the snails in the garden once he has gathered them all...

Number of edited rooms: 64

Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 64

(3 rooms: "THANK YOU !!!" [61], "GAME COMPLETED !!!" [62] and "THE END" [63], which are part of the final sequence, are only accessible during the toilet run.)

Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 64

Number of items to collect: 256

Bugfix needed after original release? NO

Spare lives at the start: 7

Completable without loss of life? YES

Starting time: 07:00 am

Best documented completion time without loss of life: 8:47 am

Download links

j Homepage	The game's home page on JSW Corner

Official release	ZIP with the game files of the three language versions in TAP format

Direct game download	Game files of all language versions in TAP and TZX formats

World of Spectrum	The game's page on WoS

Spectrum Computing	The game's page on Spectrum Computing

Speccy Screenshot Maps	The map of the English version of the game on Speccy Screenshot Maps

JSW Central	RZX walkthrough showing the most efficient completion of the game

RZX Archive	RZX walkthrough of the game on the RZX Archive (showing a completion of the game which is inferior to the best publicly available recording)