Definitions by ANDY
JetSet Willy
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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JetSet Willy by Andy April 19, 2004
uruk
large orcs with darker than usual skin and a stronger than usual dislike of the light, according to Tolkien. When I was a kid, I always used to draw the orcs as green and the uruks as black, but since Peter Jackson made them all brown, you can't tell which ones are orcs and which ones are uruks.
Which ones are uruks? I think that one over there might be. Oh hang on, that's a troll, isn't it? Damn it, you can't tell which are which!
Variag
A Tolkien word. Variags are inhabitants of a country called Khand, in southern Middle Earth, between Mordor and Harad. They aren't Haradrim, and nothing really is said about them, which makes one wonder why Tolkien put them in at all. Maybe they were to have some crucial role in a book he never got around to writing? One website says the Variags were very loyal to Sauron whereas the Haradrim were just tricked. At least that makes a bit of sense. In fact I don't think we're even told they're humans. They might be orcs. Or elves. Or aaracokra. AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!! someone tell me what a Variag is!!!!!!
The Variag ambassador was not very popular at the royal court of Gondor.
What the hell is a Variag?????
What the hell is a Variag?????
orc-fucker
someone who fucks orcs. Must exist, because there's half-orcs in The Return of the King, and where else do they come from? (I don't believe for a second all that nonsense about "Saruman's foul magics"...)
Would also make a very good term of abuse. I'll have to try it out some time (on someone smaller than me and/or who I can run away from quickly).
Would also make a very good term of abuse. I'll have to try it out some time (on someone smaller than me and/or who I can run away from quickly).
Tony Blair is an orc-fucker.
My sister would be an orc-fucker, but she doesn't have good enough taste.
My sister would be an orc-fucker, but she doesn't have good enough taste.
orc-fucker by Andy April 18, 2004
Amaurian
Member of the coolest ever religious heresy who basically believed in situationism, who got burned at the stake and who we only know about through some really messed-up church accusations (their own books were burned). In the Middle Ages, of course. It's a shame they aren't still around.
I wanted to put "Amaurian" as my religion on my census form, but my parents wouldn't let me.
I'm sorry, I can't go to work today. Or any day. Wage slavery is against my religion as an Amaurian.
I'm sorry, I can't go to work today. Or any day. Wage slavery is against my religion as an Amaurian.
urotsukidoji
It translates as "the wandering kid", even though the englist title is "legend of the overfiend". The kid in question is Amano Jaku - though I'd hardly call him a kid.
A film which will put you off tentacles for life.
A film which will put you off tentacles for life.
I could swear the tentacle squid thing which attacks Hot Rod in Transformers The Movie is a urotsukidoji thing reworked and with slightly less obvious tentacles. Those pincer things inside Unicron look a bit suspicious too.
urotsukidoji by Andy April 18, 2004