Ohhhh look what I found

#JetSetWilly #ManicMiner #TS2068 #TimexSinclair #retrogaming #retrocomputing

OK. So I played #JetSetWilly ...

and ... um ...

I was a man in a hat ... and I had to collect some things and I touched a toilet and the screen went funny colours. Then I went into some other rooms. I saw a woman guarding a bed and she killed me when I touched her. Then I went down a hole and there was a church part or something. Then I went into a room and turned into a pig with wings. Then I lost all my lives and died.

#ZXSPectrum #Games

For #LFC supporters and/or Scousers who are also #ZXSpectrum fanatics, this is relevant as Software Projects, makers of #ManicMiner and #JetSetWilly –during the fleeting five years of its existence from 1983 to 1988– produced their videogaming magic from an office at the Bear Brand Complex. Historically the former Howard Ford Factory which employed entire generations of working class people from around #Merseyside. #Liverpool #Speccy #retro #retrogaming #retrocomputing
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/gallery/liverpools-loved-lost-factory-employed-23721305

ALSO: a note for Jet Set Willy fans: Follow https://mastodon.social/@stevewetherill@oldbytes.space who is here on Mastodon, and he actually contributed to the legend porting Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy at Software Projects in 1984, he has an important blog chronicling his experience:
https://blog.stevewetherill.com/2022/01/software-projects.html

As the life of magnetic medium wanes and our own memories fade into the fog of time, I can't overstate the importance of first-hand accounts being recorded for posterity.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming
#JetSetWilly

Unbelievable that Willy is 40 and people like Stephen are still making games inspired by Matthew Smith's classic Jet Set Willy. NEW! With physics!
https://twitter.com/stephencsmith/status/1617973950797205504

Honourable mention: Jet Set Willy in Paris made in 2005 by Hervé Ast.
https://xa.bi/jsw/jswparis.htm

The second image is a map of "Paris" made in 2012 by Pavero.
https://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=JetSetWillyinParis

#ZXSpectrum #Speccy #JetSetWilly #retrogaming #retrocomputing

Over on my blog I started a series of biographical (and other retro game dev related) posts. I’ve previously posted links to these on my now defunct #birdsite page but it feels appropriate to build up links to some of this content here.
My very first job in the games industry was at Software Projects in 1984 where I worked on Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy for the Amstrad CPC computers. You can read about what that was like here:
https://blog.stevewetherill.com/2022/01/software-projects.html
#retrogames #gamedev #manicminer #jetsetwilly #softwareprojects #woolton #liverpool #bearbrandcomplex #zxspectrum #amstradcpc

OK, I'll admit, I'm obsessed with the cover of the #MSX version of #JetSetWilly

#RetroGaming #zxspectrum

Jet Set Willy scrollante è *veramente* la figata

https://nitter.it/CPL_Games/status/1528653912848334849#m

#retrogaming #zxspectrum #JetSetWilly