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Message: 6112
Author: Daniel
Date: 03/04/2007
Subject: Re: Mystery room: "The Liver Birds" / "Jet Set Scribbler"
1.
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, darth_melkor
>
pretty
> The entry for Jet Set Willy: Goodnite Luddite on World of Spectrum
> http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0014528
> has a screenshot of a room called "The Liver Birds" which I'm
> sure isn't in Goodnite Luddite (at least it doesn't show up in
JSWED,
> but then JSWED doesn't recognise J.G. Harston's extension that
allows
> a 48K game to have >64 rooms, and Goodnite Luddite /does/ have
exits
> outside the normal 0-63 range).
It is room 001 from Edward Martland's (soa1000) 2003 game "Jet Set
>
> So does anyone know which game "The Liver Birds" is from?
Willy: FTB". Edward gives the following explanation in the Read-me
file:
"The Liver Birds
The Liver Birds are a) two large metal birds, stood atop the Liver
Building, and b) a crap TV show
[http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/liver/%5d (well I didn't like it
anyway). Popular legend has it that the female Liver bird looks out
to sea to look after the sailors (Liverpool is and always has been a
shipping town) and the male bird looks in-land to find a decent pub.
In this game, one bird is looking towards 'The Cast Iron Shore', and
the other indeed looks towards 'The Pub'."
2.
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, darth_melkor
> I never meant to become a MM/JSW author. It just happened the day I
Yes, "Manic Scribbler" is unique, indeed :-) . It was a great joy for
> opened Manic Miner in JSWED and started scribbling. As soon as I
> had written the first room, I knew I had created something that was
> too unique to waste.
me to struggle with, and a delicious challenge, first just playing it
and then recording an RZX walkthrough (which can be downloaded from
the RZX Archive) :-) .
[My previous messages concerning the game are, among others, messages
#: 5385, 5602, 5878, 5896 and 5898]
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, darth_melkor
> I hope my legacy to MM/JSW will be that scribbling is an
In some future JSW game of mine (if real life allows me to continue
> interesting alternative approach to room design (especially to
> compensate lack of inspiration! ;-) My dream is that some of the
> great MM/JSW authors will throw in a few scribbles once in a while,
> just as today's glamorous pop songs often include a rap section.
editing) I will certainly place a tribute to the scribbling approach
and "Manic Scribbler" - (at least) one very difficult room designed
using this method :-) .
Daniel
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