Re: [Sheflug] Re: Ultimate (Was re: Ashby-de-la-Zouch)

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> Just noticed this reply. Must pay more attention...
> 
> JetPac
> 

That's the one :)

> Marvellous game. Used 8 different colours on the Beeb version! Top.
> 
> Not to be confused with Jet Set Willy, which starred, IIRC, miner willy from
> manic miner?
> 
> Craig

Yep - Jet Set Willy was the sequel to Manic Miner, the story being that 
after having made a fortune finding stuff in his mining days, he had 
enough to retire so had the big house...

Jet Set Willy was porbably the first ever game to have a form of copy 
protection...which was basically a grid of coloured sqaures and the game 
asked you what the colour of the sqaure at <grid reference> was.

Also a game that had a rather impressive prize to the first person to 
finish it (champagene, helicopter flight, and other stuff, IIRC). 
However, JSW had a bug in it, which a bunch of enterprising bods found, 
which meant you couldn't actually complete the game.

But 'cos they found the bug, they won the prize :)

For more fun with retro 80's games, see:
	http://www.c64audio.com/bitlive/bitlive.htm

Chris...



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