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20. Vampire Hunter Willy
Author: Simon D. Lee
Year: 2011
Bugfix: 2012
Language: English
Vampire Hunter Willy was the first JSW game gamma-released by Simon D. Lee. Although its first demo was made public as early as October 2005, the game was gamma-released in December 2011, with a bug-fixed revision launched in February 2012.
GAME PREMISE: Strange things have happened whilst Willy was down the Offy. An evil being has taken over Willy's Mansion, transforming it into a nightmarish shadow of its former glory. The player's task is to help Willy collect the artifacts required to leave this sprawling tortured tenement and return to a life of peace, tranquility and mining.
The game uses Variant Y, Hacklevel 12 of the JSW64 game engine.
Simon D. Lee released several revisions of the game, but unfortunately none of them was completable due to critical bugs. The only completable version in existence is a bug-fixed Z80 snapshot provided by Pavel Plíva (Pavero) in March 2012. The information below related to the completion of the game refers to this snapshot.
Number of edited rooms: 64
Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 63
("HOLDING ROOM" [63] is inaccessible.)
Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 63
Number of items to collect: 146
Bugfix needed after original release? YES
Effective official bugfix released? NO
Effective third-party bugfix released? YES
Spare lives at the start: 7
Bonus lives awarded? NO
Completable without loss of life? NO
Lives which need to be sacrificed to complete the game: 2
(A life has to be sacrificed to collect the leftmost item in "The Incinerator" [41], and another life has to be sacrificed to collect the two uppermost items in "Cold Day in Hell" [50].)
Starting time: 7:00 am
Best documented completion time with no unnecessary loss of life: 8:07 am
(The game is not bed- or toilet-completable by conscious design; after passing through an entrance previously blocked by Maria, the player reaches the room "Back Home..." [62], which is the end of the game.)
Download links
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Official release in TZX format (incompletable due to critical bugs) and unofficial, completable bugfix in Z80 format |
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The game's page on WoS |
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The game's page on Spectrum Computing |
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The game's map on Speccy Screenshot Maps |
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RZX walkthrough of the game showing the best documented completion time |
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RZX walkthrough of the game on the RZX Archive (showing a completion of the game which is inferior to the best publicly available recording) |
Video
A walkthrough of the game on the JSW Central YouTube channel
A complete screenshot gallery will be presented on this page in the future.