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Message: 6821
Author: jetsetdanny
Date: 05/04/2015
Subject: Re: People you don't expect to mention Jet Set Willy
To add a little Polish accent to John's message, here's a link to an interview with Janusz Korwin-Mikke, an ultra right-wing Polish politician, currently Member of the European Parliament:
http://www.videotesty.pl/news/3803/janusz-korwin-mikke-spedzilem-dwie-noce-z-river-raid-iem-2015/
Mr Korwin-Mikke was visiting the Intel Extreme Masters 2015 fair in Katowice and he gave an interview in which he mentions Jet Set Willy.
Here's an English translation of his remarks, followed by a transcript in Polish:
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Q: Have you ever tried playing [modern games] yourself?
A: Well, not this type of games, because, to be honest - you may laugh at me - for me a game like Jet Set Willy, played on a Sinclair, that is, the ZX Spectrum, is as far as I go. It is a very difficult game, it is very difficult to pass all its... [rooms]. I remember that once I spent three days passing through one room, which was really difficult. And the difficulty level of these [modern] games is lower than of those played on the ZX Spectrum, which had 8 bits of RAM (sic!).
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I have not listened to the whole interview, but I don't suppose there is another reference to JSW in it. However, Mr Korwin-Mikke offers some other thoughts, such as that driving abilities have improved thanks to people playing computer games.
Here's the transcript of the original Polish for the sake of completeness:
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- A próbował Pan sam kiedyś grać?
- Znaczy w tego typu gry nie, bo dla mnie, szczerze mówiąc - może Pan się będzie śmiał - ale dla mnie gra typu Jet Set Willy, grana na Sinclairze, znaczy ZX Spectrum, jest szczytem. To jest bardzo trudna gra, bardzo trudno przejść jej wszystkie te..., kiedyś pamiętam, że spędziłem trzy dni, przechodząc przez jedną salę, gdzie było naprawdę trudno. I trudność tych gier jest mniejsza niż tych gier granych na ZX Spectrum, które miało RAM 8-bitów (sic!).
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