Who's watching this in 2024? Thank you 3 Body Problem.

@ufocool1

Ай бұрын

me

This was one of the first games I played that seemed to create a virtual world that you could explore inside the computer. You have to imagine the culture shock at the time, games didn't have levels or screens or branching paths. The effect was staggering, you felt that if you kept exploring, you'd keep finding more.

@rzxarchive

10 жыл бұрын

Nicely put! Exactly how I felt when I first played this :)

@punkoid76

6 жыл бұрын

I know exactly what you mean space invaders and Pac-Man to this was a quantum leap.

@PrimalIceAlpha

6 жыл бұрын

Really good explanation about why this game was so good. It was always about exploring not collecting.

@mp3ste1

5 жыл бұрын

very accurate description of the gaming during the early 80's .i spent hours playing jet set willy on this on the commodore 64 but not getting very far at all. But just being involved in that world was gold, i have great memories of gaming during lates 70's and 80's + all the video arcade days on the coast. Amazing Days.

@paulmorphy6187

5 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean...one of the games that created that 'virtual world' feeling inside a computer for me was 'Super Mario 64' on the N64...that game was just mindblowing when I first saw it...my brother said to me 'Do you think it will ever get better than this?' :)

Almost 40 years later this game still gives me anxiety 😂

@leeredpath1

Жыл бұрын

😂 Spot on

@ben393

2 ай бұрын

Me too

This is literally the hardest game I've ever played . Spent hours n hours getting killed by weird things in this as an 8yr old

@BenjaminNixon

4 жыл бұрын

It really is hard AF. When I hear people talk about 'Nintendo hard' I roll my eyes and think of this and similar games like Monty Mole.

@DenkyManner

4 жыл бұрын

@@BenjaminNixon 'Nintendo hard' is because the game was a challenge, 'Spectrum hard' is because it's barely functional as a game in the first place

@marasmusine

3 жыл бұрын

@ For me it was always best enjoyed with WRITETYPER.

@Jamesharveycomics

2 жыл бұрын

@@BenjaminNixon I have never once heard the phrase "Nintendo hard"

@BenjaminNixon

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jamesharveycomics I'm not sure how long the term has been in use, but there are dedicated pages for Nintendo Hard on TV Tropes and Wikipedia. If I had to guess, I'd say the term came about when Nintendo started re-releasing old NES games on the Wii Virtual Console and many younger gamers who grew up on N64 and GameCube were exposed to these older games that often features much less responsive controls and/or lacked save options.

This game filled me with rage and frustration but I was also completely obsessed with it.

Some 38 years later, at the age of 49, I randomly think about the game I never found an ending for, and here it is 😂 thank you.... I still have the original cassette stashed away too 🤦

@paulanderson7796

Жыл бұрын

Same, and I start my 54th year in May 2023.

@ipodman1910

2 ай бұрын

Same here. But the ending is a bit disappointing. I managed to get to the master bedroom but wife was there kicking me out…

The coder Matthew Smith was 17 years old when he released this game in 1984 a kid that interfered in your life forever.

@DavidLamb-zq7ox

Ай бұрын

I believe he got completely robbed on the deal to and made nothing of jet set or manic miner ... about £80 lol guy thought he was rich but it must of sold millions

One of the greatest games ever made.

@rzxarchive

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@leeredpath1

Жыл бұрын

Facts 💯

OMG I haven't seen this for about 35 years.

This was one difficult game to master ,total precision play,just gave up because it was so difficult,tended to just roam around different rooms in the end ,but what a quirky masterpiece . Amazing how young and talented Mathew Smith was

A wonderfully tough game from a simpler yet more vibrant time - even though I knew it was a walkthrough, I caught myself tightening up at several points - you sir are a legend

The way you go through toughest rooms... the winecellar, forgotten abbey... it’s amazing

@rzxarchive

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, the guy who did this is pretty talented (wasn't me, this walkthrough was sent to me).

@kriszteblade

5 жыл бұрын

@@rzxarchive Yeah, It is amazing to see guys on youtube take a piss on your childhood nightmare games. Wizardry :) This was one of them. I had no knowledge of cheat codes ets, it was virtually impossible. Imagine kids nowadays (accustomed to playing super easy and stupid games with one finger) being put in front of such radical challenge :)

@piotrrusk

3 жыл бұрын

@@kriszteblade I had cheat codes, it did not help, though. (WRITETYPER for changing the rooms).

@rgr2508

2 жыл бұрын

​@@kriszteblade Problem is, games today usually don't have "lives" as they used to work before. You die, you just lose your coins (or whatever) or restart the stage again. There's no GAME OVER that force you to start the whole thing from scratch. My son tried to play Rockman 2 once, couldn't pass the Bubble Man stage and quit. Back then, I wouldn't stop until I've done it.

How I loved this game back in the 1980's. kind of makes you appreciate just how amazing the games of today are though. incredible that just 30 years ago this was the best you could get on a home computer. Beepy sound and chunky graphics with only 16 colours. The youth of today who've grown up with PS4 and XBOX360 will never get to appreciate the joy of having their minds blown playing the first 3D FPS. I remember upgrading from a spectrum to a commodore amiga which had a 16 bit processor! and 512K of ram! and if you could afford it you could get a hard drive with several megs that only cost a few grand and was about the size of a washing machine. literally amazing in those days.having said all that, I think there's a trend towards making games far too easy these days. Games were properly challenging back in the 80's. Yes, I know I sound like an old fucker. Because I am.

@Pascaline1645

8 жыл бұрын

+Oliver Tatlow You're not the only one. Google just two things: "Indie Game: The Movie" and "Locomalito - new old video games"

@giovanni_7191

2 жыл бұрын

I think that one parameter for the difficulcy of our era's games is that they were made for the coin-op consoles. The game should be hard enough that the average player would not spend too much time on the chair, or if he wanted to do so, he should spend some coins. As for the microcomputer games, we wouldn't like to buy a game and having it finished in a week or so. That's why they made them so hard. This is one of the games that I never finished (FAR from doing it), and I can also recall Schooldaze which was also very hard...

I spent most of the school 1984 summer holiday playing this (at the age of 14). With my mate Dave who is sadly no longer with us. Great memories. I was never good at JSW but was more than happy to be a spectator.

@Gordon669

3 жыл бұрын

Similar i spent many a night with my mates in 1984 trying to get to the end of this. Bobby RIP

@ipodman1910

2 ай бұрын

RIP Dave and Bobby - greetings from Poland where I played it at a state office owned ZX spectrum plus (regular person couldn’t adored it in 1987 in Poland… my aunt worked at the state environmental protection office - they were using spectrums to calculate fines for environmental pollution. She sometimes smuggled it for a weekend at home and we would go crazy…

Brings back memories. Amazing that the program was 48k, not 48mb and not 48gb. Just 48k.

Superb, I spent way too much time playing this instead of doing homework! And I was never good enough to finish the game! Thanks for posting this. 👍

I've just completed the PS4 Pro version of 'Shadow Of The Colossus' on Hard difficulty and it was a walk in the park compared to this Masterpiece. Thank you Matthew Smith for giving us all so many happy childhood memories playing 'Manic Miner' and 'Jet Set Willy'. I even had his one screen wonder 'Styx' What a Legend he is. Thank you RZX Archive for keeping the Speccy relevant in a World of Super Consoles....

@rzxarchive

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comments!

Watching these games makes me want to cry!

Great video and gameplay man... Almost brought a tear to my eye... So many memories!!! I had the game but never finished it thanks SO much that you showed it!!!

I’ve just discovered Noita, and the first thing I thought was ‘Jet Set Willie’! What a masterpiece it was in hindsight. At the time, it seemed completely revolutionary: A beautifully crafted sandbox world you could explore at your leisure. A joy to play.

Thanks for posting this or I would still be playing it in purgatory 2000 years later...

You done well to get through The Forgotten Abbey without losing a life! That room always fucked me up. And The Nightmare Room!!! Wow, I would have got that one out of the way early. I have NEVER got that object!!! Watching this video brought back a massive chunk of my childhood! Thanks :)

@mrsoikawa

9 жыл бұрын

LordHeath1972 No idea how he managed to get through that with no lives left. My nerves would have been pumping. Bit lucky not to lose a life on that last jump in the Nightmare Room though. Sure the housekeeper got him!

Despite having only discovered this game recently, I always found it a really beautiful peice of 80s coding, and I always thought it had a really fun story to it: To describe it basically, this game is about the titular character Willy, after having become a millionaire from his exploits in the previous game Manic Miner, having thrown a huge party in his mansion which he got super drunk at. The next morning his maid was super pissed at the mess he made (his maid basically controls him, cause British humor), and so for this game, the player has to jump around his mansion (which is actually interconnected, making it a super early example of a Metroidvania/nonlinear platformer) collecting all the items scattered about so that his maid will let him go back to sleep. And at the very end of the game, once the player collects every single item, and tries to go to the bedroom that his maid is in, she’ll finally let him in… Only for control of Willy to be stripped from the Player, for the grand ending, as Willy controls himself, to run into the bathroom and vomit into the toilet. I always thought that was a pretty hilarious story. And considering this game is a 1984 title it always impressed me, that it communicated so much story (I never grew up with the game since I’m not British)

These games were pushing the boundaries of gaming at the time and great for the UK industry. I was 11 years old at the time of playing this, also Manic Miner of course, Jetpac, Sabre wulf, Cookie, Pssst, Wheelie, Atic Atac and Ant Attack, the list goes on. All classic games and many more afterwards too. So glad I had the chance to play and grow up with these kinds of games back in the 80s and early 90s.The evolution of games has come a long way, but I will always love the zx spectrum for being a massive part of my childhood.

@rzxarchive

7 жыл бұрын

Well said!

My first ever introduction to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata...

@thepumpkingking8339

10 жыл бұрын

Think this must be why I liked it so much, when Jill played it in Resi1.

@pallerasmussen2525

3 жыл бұрын

Weird, my games theme was If i were a rich man, mandela effect?

@jesusnuclear

3 жыл бұрын

@@pallerasmussen2525 It was in early versions, but removed later; copyright infraction, I guess

Seriously - holy shitballs. I was 7 years old when i first played this game and it's blown my mind to see someone do this.

That was fantastic, it’s been so many years since I played this and never did I know how it ended. I do now!! Thank you 😊

@rzxarchive

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome :)

What a game. This is an absolute classic. Nice to take a trip back to the 80's.

Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy were just a class apart from everything else available on the old 8 bit computers, the playability was what set them apart

I spent my 8th year lost in this world. Best year of my life 👍

Sometimes I wonder why Willy’s house is full of parkour challenges

@thf1933

2 жыл бұрын

He wants to sleep much so they are mostly parts of his dream

played this endlessly. loved it. even better with cheat cassette. went to places you could not go.

The forefather of metroidvania games

My first ever game and The Bathroom screen takes me back to being a small child! Wow

making it look easy the best speccy game I remember playing this for months and made my own map of all the rooms on the back of some wallpaper :)

All these years later and i finally see all the rooms

The rope physics is JSW have never been bettered in my IMO...

Not once did I ever manage to complete this game regardless of the hours devoured sitting in front of my Speccy... Too many times caught in the one room and willys getting squished one after the other so quickly you just put your head in your hands and cried waiting for Monty Python foot...

I loved this game. Using the ultimate lives ‘poke’ code with Merge….But if you died through rooms you kept on dying continuously as it would restart from the last move, and you would have to restart the game all over again….Great memories….

Wow what a Memory... So hard but so addictive

Dam was never able to complete this game even with infinite lives can nearly remeber the poke for it, this game and many more speccy computer games got me into gaming cheers for the nostalga

@rzxarchive

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! :)

@MukinAbout

5 жыл бұрын

35poke35899,0

Fantastic walk down Amnesia Lane!!

Extrmely impressive... i didn't know how easy this game was before seeing this!

1:00 Now I know how to get through the Banyan Tree. 35 years later!!

@kami3000

3 жыл бұрын

And does it make it easier? :P I still struggle now that i know the path. Haven't succeeded yet.

@jimmorrison2657

3 жыл бұрын

@@kami3000 Ah, I haven't tried it yet. Ha ha. Good luck!!

@kami3000

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimmorrison2657 I have so much respect for you guys who grew up with this game and the speccy. Such tough games, such tough loading times until you could even play those games.

@jimmorrison2657

3 жыл бұрын

@@kami3000 The Spectrum was my best ever Christmas present, when I was 11 years old. I used it for years. My favourite ever game was 'Elite'.

@kami3000

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimmorrison2657 I only found out about the Speccy some years ago, thanks to KimJustice, Octavius and NostalgiaNerd on KZread. I really like to emulate Speccy games. It's such a unique machine. So many stories behind the games and their creators. It's a very nice piece of British pop culture history and like a window into a past world.

I played this for the first time on 2017 or something like that and it's one of the best games I ever played

An amazing game... been waiting since I was like 8 to see how this game ends.... deff wasn't expecting that lol

In the “First Landing” screen, notice the orange cross. The ZX Spectrum had no orange color, so it was probably rendered alternating frames of yellow and red.

@HansHackfress

8 ай бұрын

Umm, where do you see any orange? Maybe you get this impression because of the video compression and/or artifacting resulting in very slightly "wrong" colours rather than the yellow/red? The certainly was no "frame-alternating" (= 2x25 times per second) of yellow/red in this game. This of course totally unrelated to the fact the cross uses the Spectrum's Flash attribute ...

@dans.8198

8 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@HansHackfressAt 0:22, compare the yellow of the cross to the yellow of the priest. It looks very orange in comparison. I always thought this was achieved by alternating frames, however, it might be just a form of interpolation due to the chroma signal precision, as red and yellow in the cross are pixel-dithered and might be bleeding into each other. I don’t know how this video has been captured. It don’t think it is a compression artifact, as this illusion is also perceived on a CRT using a real Spectrum.

@HansHackfress

8 ай бұрын

@@dans.8198 Yeah, I haven't played/seen this game on original hardware connected to an CRT in a looong time but I am 100% sure there was no flickering between red and yellow in alternating frames involved - even if there was, it would be flickery enough to be noticeable. I certainly didn't get any feel of there being an "orange" tint when I just now tried it on an emulator without any filters applied. So I'll agree with your assumption that it has to do with the imperfection of signal, (sub-)pixels of a CRT screen bleeding into each other and so on.

Played this on the Spectrum back in the days, i had totally forgotten how psychedelic it was lol

Do you really have to die twice under the conservatory roof to get those 2 items? That's brutal edit: the whole game is brutal - I didn't even know it could be finished! Well done. I used to dream about finding hidden screens in this game when I was a kid, many years back. It seemed magical to me

@kriszteblade

3 жыл бұрын

No you don't. He could have stopped. But original had a bug in this room that made it impossible.

The marsterpiece that inspired all subsequent platform games worth a damn This game and atic atac are responsible for my total love of platformers and rpgs.

That takes me right back. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for all the memories!

@rzxarchive

8 жыл бұрын

+JamesGoblin You're welcome! :)

I'd love to see a reboot of Jet Set Willy.

I'd love to see a remake of this game.

Back when games were games. These days people expect decent graphics and responsive controls. Nothing beats the old days where games were borderline broken and your imagination provided 99.9% of the experience

Oh man, if I knew the ending was such a non-event, I might not have played this for 4356173845435 hours

Many many spent on the Acorn Electron version back in the day. I never completed it, so it's nice to see how it should be done here. Great video.

I made my own rip-off of this game at the time, called 'Jet Set Billy'. You had to explore rooms, avoid monsters and collect objects. I wasn't good enough to write the whole thing in machine code. I wrote it in Basic, but with some calls to machine code to do some basic things, like painting the background of a room when you first entered it. The man and monsters moved one block at a time. So, it was crap but playable.

I wonder if the ending for this game inspired the movie Trainspotting?

I loved it. played for hours.

I was like 10 or something when I played it, I have no idea how I managed to get through so many of the rooms in this!

It took me nearly 35 years to realise, what "Off license" actually is (and why the only known way from Willy's front door is leading there... )))

@blatherskite3009

4 жыл бұрын

Haha! Yes, "Off Licence" is the British name for what they'd call a "liquor store" in other countries: a small store where you go to buy alcohol but you can't consume it on the premises. A booze shop, basically. Alcohol plays a large role in JSW :)

Thank you for your playing!

The undisputed champion of zx spectrum games IMHO, literally hours and Hours of game play, cheats secret walls etc, the other 1 I loved was Monty in a prison, even though it was difficult to get passed the first stage 😂

I was actually first introduced to this game in the sadly now long-defunct bonus.com. It kinda creeped me a bit at the time. But in that version, you can toggle so that you have unlimited lives and even the frame rate.

Wow I played this all the time back in the day is there any consul/ platform you can play it on?

Wow! 40 years later I finally get to see how it ends. The cover gave it away and it wasn't worth the wait actually.

This was my first game in life ever.

30 years later, this game got a sequel Jet Set Radio

I mapped (with pencil and paper) the whole game (I think) in about 1985. Never came close to collecting all the items though.

Matthew Smith lived in a house literally 3 streets away from my cousins house in Wallasey, Merseyside. It was our favourite game ever and the guy who wrote it we found out years later lived right by. Apparently with his millions he spent it on weed, beer, some weed, more beer, motorbikes and ....well who cares but fuck me I could have knocked there and ask for some cheat codes that would have given me the ability to finish the game much quicker (took me fuckin months) and do my homework and not end up a drug addled bum writing shit to teenagers on youtube at 5 in the morning.

I remember this fool game when i had a Soectrum. It seems a nightmare caused by “an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato.” 😉 BTW i wish to have some of the drugs used by the maker...

I always wondered how to do the Priest's Hole! lol

Um dos jogos mais difíceis da família zxspectrum... e muito bem bolado, só o final que não ajuda.

JSW was one of those games when you get to a certain level and just go 'Oh f*ck off!'

What a climactic ending

I wish someone would do a TV show or film based on MM and JSW!!

When you waited half an hour for the tape to play and load the game, but it didn't work so you had to rewind it and start again. Eventually tape gets chewed.....

@HansHackfress

8 ай бұрын

No Speccy games took half an hour to load. Most 48k games took around 4-6 minutes.

@ipodman1910

2 ай бұрын

@@HansHackfresshe was ten at the time… waiting 5 minutes seemed like half an hour to him ;)

@HansHackfress

2 ай бұрын

@@ipodman1910well, I was ten in 1984, and for me it seemed like 5 minutes ;)

Love hate relationship with this game

The c64-version was unbeatable because a bug. It`s this an bugfixed version or is the specyversion solvable without bugfixes ?

@rzxarchive

9 жыл бұрын

The speccy version also had a bug (the infamous Attic Bug), making it very difficult to complete the game. Software Projects released an official patch of four pokes to fix this bug. This walkthrough uses the patched version.

@Moleplay

9 жыл бұрын

RZX Archive Ah, okay. Thanks :)

Is it modificate version? With fixing of attic and other bugs?

@rzxarchive

5 жыл бұрын

It has the official attic bug fix applied, nothing else.

Ah, back when killer jellies, priouetting rabbits, and lethal canaries were all topped off by occasionally turning in to a winged guinea pig. I would love to have penguins live in my freezer, though.

I could have done with this walk through in the eighties all I had was a map of the mansion in the magazine computer & video games.

Wow. Congratulations.

Best game out there

my memory may be failing me but didn't this game have moonlight sonata sampled into its soundtrack?

@thf1933

2 жыл бұрын

Its underground king or something I believe. And Dynamite Dan has some Mozart stuff.

....so he ends up face down in the toilet. I feel better for never completing it.

I think the makers of the game offered a helicopter ride and a crate if champagne and you could not finish it yeah jetset Willy wow ❤

Probably one of the 1st open world games. Skyrim Grand theft auto Red dead 2 owe loads 2 this game 👍❤

@cauldronofstardust4113

3 жыл бұрын

Metroid owes a lot to this game too

How did he fit this into 48k? Insane. I wasn't that good on this, I just liked to explore, I did reach level 17 on Manic Miner though. You had to finish the level to see the next I suppose on that.

@cinqo7

9 жыл бұрын

Could you save your game and continue the next day or did you have to start it all over?

@AndrewMottershead

9 жыл бұрын

cinqo7 You had to restart... no save function.

One of the few games with real imagination and intelligence. Whatever happened to Matthew Smith?

Fair play :)

Do you ever remember quazatron for the spectrum ?

@rzxarchive

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, it's on my channel here :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJp_qLGoXbfVmpM.html

@christopherr3676

4 жыл бұрын

@@rzxarchive I will have a look Loved that game

Sooo, no ones gonna mention that ending???

Anyone remember the writetyper poke?

And all this fuss only to get drowned in the toilet? :D

@dragondude9637

3 жыл бұрын

I think he's puking up. He's recovering from a hangover after all. 😁

42:40... THAT's close!

@HeyBusterLuke

3 жыл бұрын

lol that gave me anxiety!

I remember it... Part 1, 2, 3...

So he finally cleans that huge weird house, only to get sick in the toilet huh?

@thfrussia6717

Ай бұрын

He was drunk probably. Thats why he sees the house... like this

Is this the Pope's run?