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Message: 3105
Author: soa1000
Date: 28/11/2002
Subject: JSW GAMES REISSUED / Re: dreams
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@y..., andrewbroad
wrote:
""Was that the foot-dream in The Time Hole? Was that an actual dream
of yours?""
Nah, although it would've been interesting, to say the least. I can't
remember what inspired that room when I think about it, apart from
the fact that I've always loved the foot graphic...
Anyway, the story behind the dream is this: Waaaay back in the day,
we had Jet Set Willy I on the C64. Our copy (besides the crippling
staircase cock-up on Software Projects' part) had a bug which caused
guardian corruption - to whit, stepping into certain rooms would give
you a mangled room full of distorted graphics (always feet) and
instant death, followed by a game full of weirdly stretched, resized
and otherwise distorted guardians, alongside faulty room connections
and such. All this preamble is just to tell you that I clearly had a
dream once set in one of the foot-filled rooms (mentioned it in Time
Hole's documentation in fact, but I don't know if you've ever read
that as it might be in .doc format)
For anyone who cares, go to the Master Bedroom in Time Hole. The room
you pass through going into it is inspired by all this screwy chaos.
Also, somewhere on the net are similarly corrupt ROMs of JSW1 C64. I
really want to find one again, having lost my last copy. *sigh*
Whew, can I ever ramble!
""Most of the dreams in the Goodnite Luddite diary were actual dreams
of mine, albeit with some modifications. :-)""
That's cool. I'd love to include some of my dreams in my games, but
they're often so packed with detail and confusion that even when I
can remember them (I always tell myself I'm going to make myself a
self-hypnosis tape so I can remember all my dreams, but I probably
never will) they're too out-and-out crazy to put into a game
In my one JSW-related dream, I remember there were some odd guardians
in the room I was in - one like a flattened-out, "bad acid" take on
Ermintrude from Magic Roundabout, and the other a piece of twisted
metal. I'd love to put them in a Willy game, but they were extremely
detailed in my dream and wouldn't copy well into a Spectrum game
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