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Message: 6145
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 06/05/2007
Subject: Re: Spectrum MM/JSW vs JSW Online
Daniel wrote:
>I wasn't going to quote the full sentence, because it's not very
> What does it say about "Willy's Hoard"? I have no way of purchasing
> the magazine right now.
>
> And what does "(no really)" mean after "Maria Vs Some Bastards"?
complimentary. But here it is in full context:
>>>Matthew Smith's Jet Set Willy has enthralled a generation of gamers
for over 22 years, with a recent survey by top US statisticians
confirming that the intrepid miner's second game is played by 62 and
a half people every 37 minutes. Okay, so maybe that statement is
about as real as the completed version of the Megatree that's
believed to be hidden down the side of Smith's favourite armchair (we
can't be sure), but no one can deny that after two decades Miner
Willy remains one of the industry's most beloved characters.
Shuffle down the murky paths of World Of Spectrum (with The Blue
Danube playing cheerfully in the back of your mind) and you'll
discover a staggering number of tributes to Jet Set Willy. Indeed
there were so many to choose from that we lost count after ten - the
maximum number of digits available for us to count on. Fortunately,
one quick forum post revealed that the intrepid miner has appeared in
over 60 different fan creations on the Spectrum alone. An impressive
figure and no mistake. But what happens when you become bored with
all those available games and need a new fix? What happens when
Willy's Hoard, The Deadly Mission, Fantasy World Willy and Maria Vs
Some Bastards (no really) no longer have anything to offer? Well, you
take the hero to the masses of course...
<<<
I've had a few single-player goes of JSW Online, but I can't see it
ever coming anywhere near the passion I have for the Spectrum MM/JSW
games (I'm currently up to Willy Comes Home - probably the most
branching JSW game I've ever seen - and fighting the temptation just
to break off and extend SPECSAISIE to support 128K so that ItemsJSW
and RoomReachJSW will work as well for JSW128 as they do for JSW48).
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
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