Jet Set Willy 2600 (POC)

[alfredtdk]

First screen of the Jet Set Willy project for the Atari 2600. This project was born by chance when another topic on the forum raised the question of whether a new version of Miner 2049er was necessary, that's when Gemintronic said that my concept for a new Miner 2049er he was more like Jet Set Willy. Remembering that Jet was born for the ZX Spectrum, being the third game in the series, which started with Maniac Miner, the games were ported to several domestic computers of the time, such as BBC, Amstrad, Atari 8bit, etc...
My next step is to develop interactivity with the objects on screen, such as collecting the green soap from the bathtub and other things that I won't reveal now.

The story of the game is that Miner Willy became rich with the treasures obtained from the two previous games, for this he promoted a big party in his mansion, the mess left by the guests caused his housekeeper to order Willy to leave the mansion organized again, for this Willy goes around all the rooms arranging and collecting the items, what he doesn't know is which items in his treasures are acting on their own, as if moved by some unknown force of nature. Well, that's a summary of the story from what I understand. The truth is that I don't know the original games very well, I had played very little. From what I know, this third title in the series contains 60 screens, one crazier than the other. The first screen I'm making available for testing takes place in the mansion's bathroom with a crazy waste-spewing toilet, don't ask what it is.

 

 

Jet_S_W_Bathroom.bas.bin

Edited August 3 by alfredtdk

[alfredtdk]

The first screen of the ZX Spectrum version.

[+Gemintronic]

That looks very nice!  Much better than what I could do without ARM assist.

 

[ALEXANDER]

On 8/2/2024 at 10:46 PM, alfredtdk said:

First screen of the Jet Set Willy project for the Atari 2600. This project was born by chance when another topic on the forum raised the question of whether a new version of Miner 2049er was necessary, that's when Gemintronic said that my concept for a new Miner 2049er he was more like Jet Set Willy. Remembering that Jet was born for the ZX Spectrum, being the third game in the series, which started with Maniac Miner, the games were ported to several domestic computers of the time, such as BBC, Amstrad, Atari 8bit, etc...
My next step is to develop interactivity with the objects on screen, such as collecting the green soap from the bathtub and other things that I won't reveal now.

The story of the game is that Miner Willy became rich with the treasures obtained from the two previous games, for this he promoted a big party in his mansion, the mess left by the guests caused his housekeeper to order Willy to leave the mansion organized again, for this Willy goes around all the rooms arranging and collecting the items, what he doesn't know is which items in his treasures are acting on their own, as if moved by some unknown force of nature. Well, that's a summary of the story from what I understand. The truth is that I don't know the original games very well, I had played very little. From what I know, this third title in the series contains 60 screens, one crazier than the other. The first screen I'm making available for testing takes place in the mansion's bathroom with a crazy waste-spewing toilet, don't ask what it is.

 

 

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Awesome advance !

 

 

[Ely]

Looks neat

 

For reference, JSW was the 2nd in the series with Manic Miner being the first. I'm surprised you didn't tackle MM first as it's more like Miner 2049er given it's a single-screen-at-a-time platform game.