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V. Jet Set Willy 64 (JSW64)

Games using John Elliott's JSW64 family of game engines for the 128K Spectrum

 

22. Pip The Pipistrelle

Author: Steve Dixon (Jammajup)

Publisher: Purple Unicorn Software

Year: 2012

Language: English

 

Pip The Pipistrelle was the first JSW game gamma-released by Steve Dixon (Jammajup). It was released in March 2012.

The protagonist of the game is a Pipistrelle bat (member of the species fondly referred to as 'pips' by bat enthusiasts). Pip wakes up near the entrance to an old, brick, 62-floor-high tower. He has fallen from the bat roost on the 60th floor, he is injured and too weak to fly, he limps. His mission is to get back to the roost, collecting enough moths, butterflies, slugs, spiders, grubs and other kinds of food along the way to give him enough energy to survive the cold night when/if he does make it to the roost.

The tower has seen a lot of history: there are signs of industry or humans in the lower levels, with vegetation and wildlife taking over as Pip gets higher. The inside of the tower is one screen wide with the outer brickwork to the right (east) and left (west) taking up a further screen. There are also some other features that increase the width of the playing area.

The game features some secret passages and 10 special hidden screens, most of which are tributes to classic video games. The fall-any-height POKE is turned on by default, so that Pip can fall from any height safely. Some items give Pip extra lives.

 

The game uses Variant W, Hacklevel 12 of the JSW64 game engine.

 

Number of edited rooms: 128

Number of items to collect: 256

 

Bugfix needed after original release? NO

Spare lives at the start: 7

Bonus lives awarded? YES: 19

Completable without loss of life? YES

 

Starting time and the best documented completion time: N/A

(There is no clock in the game.)

 

Download links

homepage

Homepage

The game's homepage on the Purple Unicorn Software website

   

directdownload

Direct game download

Game file in TAP and TZX formats

   

wos

World of Spectrum

The game's page on WoS

   

spectrumcomputing

Spectrum Computing

The game's page on Spectrum Computing

 

 

speccymaps

Speccy Screenshot Maps

The game's map on Speccy Screenshot Maps

   

rzxarchive

RZX Archive

RZX walkthrough of the game

 

 

Videos

 

A walkthrough of game on the JSW Central YouTube channel

 

 

The author's walkthrough of the game on YouTube

 

 

A complete screenshot gallery will be presented on this page in the future.