Willy's Great Adventure: ZX Sp
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About Willy's Great Adventure: ZX Sp
PRESS RELEASE – 28th June, 2013 – Wallasey, Merseyside and Lichfield, Staffs. England
Re.: Previously Unseen 'Miner Willy' Game Emerges After 28 Years
‘Willy’s Great Adventure’ for the ZX Spectrum is authorised by Matthew Smith, author of ‘Manic Miner’ and Jet Set Willy’.
‘Willy’s Great Adventure: ZX Spectrum’ will be available from the iTunes App Store, from the Google Play Store and for Amazon Kindle Fire / HD on Friday 28th June, 2013 and after for Windows Phone 8 & Windows 8.
‘Willy’s Great Adventure’ was developed by Terry Lloyd in 1985, as a homage to Matthew Smith’s ‘Miner Willy’ games. ‘Willy’s Great Adventure’ has not previously been released and is believed to be otherwise unknown, until offered to Elite (in an email at 9:50am on 12th July 2012) for publication.
“I can confirm it has never seen the light of day. Unless someone stole it off my computer and put it out there without me knowing {:~). I've been playing it through again myself to test it, and I have to say I think it's one of the most complete and totally customized mods out there (in terms of all new rooms, tiles and sprites). Although there are some other good ones I've played, a lot of them keep the original graphics and just have new rooms, while some change the graphics but the rooms and map are very similar to the original. Whereas, WGA changed about 98% of the original stuff (Willy even has a new hat, an Indy-style adventurer's Fedora).” - Terry.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Matthew Smith and Elite have previously announced that they are to co-operate in the development and publication of a new game. ‘Willy’s Great Adventure’ is NOT that game. A further announcement about that game will be made at a later date.
This Press Release is published by:
Elite Systems Ltd. Celebrating 25 Years ! 1984-2009
http://www.elite-systems.co.uk
Twitter: @elite_systems
Legal Notice: Willy’s Great Adventure TM & © 1985-2013, Matthew Smith. Developed by Terry Lloyd. Published by Elite Systems Ltd. ZX:EC TM & © 2010-2013 Elite Systems Group Ltd. Sinclair ZX Spectrum TM & © 1982-2013 Amstrad Ltd. Elite® is a registered trademark (142270). All Rights Reserved.
Links:
This announcement (including an exclusive video in which Matthew Smith speaks about ‘Willy’s Great Adventure’ for the ZX Spectrum): http://matthewsmith.elite-systems.co.uk/?p=145
“Willy Great Adventure: ZX Spectrum” at Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elite.willyadv
Re.: Previously Unseen 'Miner Willy' Game Emerges After 28 Years
‘Willy’s Great Adventure’ for the ZX Spectrum is authorised by Matthew Smith, author of ‘Manic Miner’ and Jet Set Willy’.
‘Willy’s Great Adventure: ZX Spectrum’ will be available from the iTunes App Store, from the Google Play Store and for Amazon Kindle Fire / HD on Friday 28th June, 2013 and after for Windows Phone 8 & Windows 8.
‘Willy’s Great Adventure’ was developed by Terry Lloyd in 1985, as a homage to Matthew Smith’s ‘Miner Willy’ games. ‘Willy’s Great Adventure’ has not previously been released and is believed to be otherwise unknown, until offered to Elite (in an email at 9:50am on 12th July 2012) for publication.
“I can confirm it has never seen the light of day. Unless someone stole it off my computer and put it out there without me knowing {:~). I've been playing it through again myself to test it, and I have to say I think it's one of the most complete and totally customized mods out there (in terms of all new rooms, tiles and sprites). Although there are some other good ones I've played, a lot of them keep the original graphics and just have new rooms, while some change the graphics but the rooms and map are very similar to the original. Whereas, WGA changed about 98% of the original stuff (Willy even has a new hat, an Indy-style adventurer's Fedora).” - Terry.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Matthew Smith and Elite have previously announced that they are to co-operate in the development and publication of a new game. ‘Willy’s Great Adventure’ is NOT that game. A further announcement about that game will be made at a later date.
This Press Release is published by:
Elite Systems Ltd. Celebrating 25 Years ! 1984-2009
http://www.elite-systems.co.uk
Twitter: @elite_systems
Legal Notice: Willy’s Great Adventure TM & © 1985-2013, Matthew Smith. Developed by Terry Lloyd. Published by Elite Systems Ltd. ZX:EC TM & © 2010-2013 Elite Systems Group Ltd. Sinclair ZX Spectrum TM & © 1982-2013 Amstrad Ltd. Elite® is a registered trademark (142270). All Rights Reserved.
Links:
This announcement (including an exclusive video in which Matthew Smith speaks about ‘Willy’s Great Adventure’ for the ZX Spectrum): http://matthewsmith.elite-systems.co.uk/?p=145
“Willy Great Adventure: ZX Spectrum” at Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elite.willyadv
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What are users saying about Willy's Great Adventure: ZX Sp
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I bought this when it first came out. It is sadly, for me at least, far too difficult in terms of its pixel-precise requirements when playing on a touchscreen. By all means buy it to show your support for the ZX Spectrum, and at £1.99 it is hardly expensive, but I think I will be sticking with Lords of Midnight on my Nexus 7 and leave this style of game for when I play on real hardware or a PC-based emulator with snapshots!
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But lovin it all the same even if its for no other reason than nostalgia. Now give us some more, why should iOS owners get all the fun.
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Would love to play the game, but the "play", "settings" and other icons don't work, no matter how many times I touch them. All the web links work, but who cares when I can't get the game to start :-(
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Ok ok nexus 7 compatibility whooo but Skool Daze still ain't around and it was released first plzzz fix that now . And as for the rest of the collection get on android asap , your losing out and robbing android users of Elite bliss , hell I've still got my 128k specy .......
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Needs Xperia Play DPAD support. Touch controls not responsive enough.
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I am finding it rock hard though. I'd better practice some more...
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I bought this app in mind is a game,but it is non playable app,it is just a screenshots from the game.Its named as game,but this game wasn't even created.So who wants to buy a screenschots from a game,buy it.
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One word... Awesome. Thank you Elite for making this possible.
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Thanks for the Nexus 7 compatibility!
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I forgot quite how frustratingly difficult these games were. Nice emulation of a speccy. Was this originally made with one of the Jet Set Willy editors you could buy out of the back of magazines? It would good to see some creative features in the emulation, like automatic progressive map making. My days of graph paper mapping are way behind me.