Spectrum computer game (also converted to other platforms), the official follow-up to Manic Miner. A platform arcade-style game, it features a slightly re-drawn version of Miner Willy, now wearing a top hat instead of his flat cap, engaged in similar capers in the massive mansion he has bought with the plunder from his first adventure.
The idea of the story is that Maria the housekeeper won't let Willy go to bed until he's collected all the rubbish left over from a late-night party with his Jet Set mates. There's a huge number of items to collect, and, although Willy has more lives than in the first game and can move freely from room to room, the game is decidedly difficult unless played under emulation with various cheat functions (e.g. saving the game). To make matters worse, it has a couple of bugs - most notably the infamous Attic bug.
Like many early Spectrum games, the graphics and gameplay are decidedly simple (Willy has only three control buttons - left, right and jump), and yet is very addictive and time-consuming and can be highly enjoyable if you aren't completely screwed by it. The combinations of floors, items and monsters which can be designed into a game of this kind belie the simplicity of the basic idea.
Now available from many abandonware sites, JSW has, like its forerunner, also been subject to many fan tributes, including a PC remake and a number of reconfigured versions of the Spectrum game which can be downloaded online (such as "Willy to the Rescue", "Bulgarian Requiem", "Jet Set Willy in Space", "Utility Cubicles", "Willy's Holiday", "Willy's Afterlife" and many others). These are made with a programme editor which is also available.
There was also an official Jet Set Willy 2 made for the Spectrum, which is the same game but with added rooms, more items and the bugs fixed.
The idea of the story is that Maria the housekeeper won't let Willy go to bed until he's collected all the rubbish left over from a late-night party with his Jet Set mates. There's a huge number of items to collect, and, although Willy has more lives than in the first game and can move freely from room to room, the game is decidedly difficult unless played under emulation with various cheat functions (e.g. saving the game). To make matters worse, it has a couple of bugs - most notably the infamous Attic bug.
Like many early Spectrum games, the graphics and gameplay are decidedly simple (Willy has only three control buttons - left, right and jump), and yet is very addictive and time-consuming and can be highly enjoyable if you aren't completely screwed by it. The combinations of floors, items and monsters which can be designed into a game of this kind belie the simplicity of the basic idea.
Now available from many abandonware sites, JSW has, like its forerunner, also been subject to many fan tributes, including a PC remake and a number of reconfigured versions of the Spectrum game which can be downloaded online (such as "Willy to the Rescue", "Bulgarian Requiem", "Jet Set Willy in Space", "Utility Cubicles", "Willy's Holiday", "Willy's Afterlife" and many others). These are made with a programme editor which is also available.
There was also an official Jet Set Willy 2 made for the Spectrum, which is the same game but with added rooms, more items and the bugs fixed.
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by Andy April 19, 2004
Later name for Dorthonion, after its conquest by the armies of Morgoth. At the time it bore the name, it was a desolate forest from which people and animals had fled, inhabited only by wandering bands of Morgoth's monsters and orcs.
It was a plateau raised above ground, and may have survived the flooding of Beleriand as the island of Tol Fuin.
by Andy May 11, 2004
a pliable, foldable, compleatly flat and round penis resembling a plate. masculine form of whhaerrre
because his whhaer was so big, it took bob several minutes to refold his whhaer after using the restroom
by Andy November 23, 2004
A character in Joe Dever and John Grant's Legends of Lone Wolf series, who is a mercenary warrior/assassin and an ally of Lone Wolf. She is one of the party who free Lone Wolf from Helgedad when he is kidnapped in Legends 5: The Claws of Helgedad, although she was assumed dead at the end of book 3.
She appears briefly in the original gamebook series, as one of the passengers on a coach from Ragadorn to Gorn Cove.
She appears briefly in the original gamebook series, as one of the passengers on a coach from Ragadorn to Gorn Cove.
Viveka appears to die after falling overboard on a ship, but she reappears safe and well at the Kai Monastery ruins.
She is one of the many not-quite-girlfriends Lone Wolf has in the Legends novels, and like most of them, she seems to just appear and disappear at random.
She is one of the many not-quite-girlfriends Lone Wolf has in the Legends novels, and like most of them, she seems to just appear and disappear at random.
by Andy April 26, 2004
It's a sexual position that is taken from the movie "8 Mile" where you have intercourse with your clothes on.
by Andy March 21, 2005
The best adventure gamebook series EVER (now available free online as well!) - you get to be a noble Kai Lord fighting the evil Darklords for the future of the realm of Magnamund. Written by Joe Dever. Actually contain entire species of new monsters not found anywhere else, e.g. giaks, kraan, gourgaz, zlanbeasts, burrowcrawlers, etc.
Lone Wolf rules!!!!!
by Andy April 18, 2004