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using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines
Games of MM and JSW interest
I. Platform games similar to MM or JSW/probably enjoyable for MM and JSW fans
Stay Kool
Author: Leigh Hugill
Publisher: Bug-Byte Software Ltd
Year: 1984
Language: English
Stay Kool is a JSW-lookalike in which you have to collect all the fuel rods in order to escape from an overheating spaceship.
GAME PREMISE: Space pilot Luke Warm is stranded on his crippled spaceship after one of his less successful space battles. Fortunately, the ship does have a shuttlecraft which can be used to escape in, but being rather overconfident, Luke has neglected to refuel the shuttle before going into battle. The necessary fule rods are on board somewhere, but Luke was not too careful about where he stowed them and so they are scattered around the huge ship. The damage to the ship has sent haywire some of the automatic equipment and robots and has also released some of Luke's less than friendly pets. This makes travelling around the ship rather hazardous!
Meanwhile, the crippled fighter is falling towards a nearby star and the ship's thermometer is rising steadily. Can you guide Luke around the ship, collecting all the necessary fuel rods, and finally reaching the Shuttle Bay before Luke Warm becomes Red Hot?
The game appears impossible to complete in its original form, as there is no way to exit the cluster of rooms — "Pteradactyl’s Lair", "The Giddy Goons", "The Nuclear Reactor!", "Rear Deck" and the left side of "We Must Perform a ... WHAT?" — and return to the rest of the playing field once the player has collected all of the items in that area. POKE 51504,7 remedies this issue by moving the right-hand platform in “We Must Perform a … WHAT?” one row up, making the room passable from left to right. The RZX recording available for download below, which served as the basis for the JSW Central video, was made after applying this bugfix.
Links
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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 |
Video
A walkthrough of the game on the JSW Central YouTube channel
Download the JSW Central video in its original Full HD quality or in an AI-upscaled 4K version |
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