Did Jet Set Willly ever get a US release?

[Silent Hill]

I know that Tynesoft released Jet Set Willy for the 8-bit Atari computers on both disc and cassette, but I've found them surprisingly difficult to come by in the UK.

 

Was the game ever released for the Atari in America? I know that it was released for the Commodore 64 (together with Saboteur) on disc in the US and Canada, but off hand that's the only iteration I'm aware of. Unless someone knows different?

 

http://www.elitomlin..._Canada_Release

 

I don't think it's a very well known game outside of the UK, but it was certainly one of (if not the most) popular game of it's era over here.

[gooner73]

I don't think it got released outside of europe, but it was a bad conversion anyway.They released it two years after speccy etc and seemed to be programmed on a 2600!

the recent release in 2007 was much better, but not unfortunately released as a cart or anything else.

 

certainly is a piece of gaming history here in the uk though

[Silent Hill]

It's arguably the most famous 8-bit game of all time in the UK!

 

I've only come across the Atari disc version a couple of times, once in England and once in Germany. The Atari cassette version does pop up now and again, but I actually found it to be the hardest tape version to find.

 

It's just strange that it was released in America on the C64 (though admittedly, seemingly as an afterthought to go with Saboteur ~ if the game's cover is anything to go by). Mind you it was one of only 8 games to appear on Bee Card format for the MSX Bee Pack in Japan ~ and I have no idea what the story is behind that!

[+CharlieChaplin]

Well,

 

one can at least find JSW in a commercial compilation, like that one:

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-four-great-games-volume-1_1215.html

 

and if you bought the german version of Volume 2 you also found it there (instead of WDW II):

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-four-great-games-volume-2_1216.html

 

Think I have Vol. 2 three times, twice with WDW 2 and once with JSW... (I love Mousetrap, that is why).

-Andreas Koch.

[Silent Hill]

Ah yes, good old Micro Value. I believe they also published one of Harry S. Price's games... if you can call his games 'his' games.

 

Software Projects were never shy about allowing Jet Set Willy to pop up now and again in various compilations. Still, you don't come across the Atari compilations very often ~ nice find.

Edited December 14, 2011 by Silent Hill