Jet Set Willy

Information

Genre

Arcade - Platformer (Multi-Screen)

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick

Players

1

Programmer(s)

Riddell, Mark

Graphic Artist(s)

Riddell, David

Sound

Hubbard, Rob

Cover Artist(s)

[unknown]

Year

1986

Publisher

Tynesoft

Developer

[n/a]

Country

United Kingdom

License

Commercial

Medium

Tape, Disk

Rarity

7 (Tape), 8 (Disk)

Serial

-

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 6.1/10 · Votes: 41 · Downloads: 4,730 · Hits: 22,008

Additional Comments

Screenshots (4)

Cover Art (3)

Comments (3)

• thax — 19 Oct 2013

  Amazing music, the idea of tidying the house so you could goto bed was cool, but the atari version had an evil glitch if anyone else ever noticed - when you lost a life - it respawned you in exact same place so you just died over and over until your lives ran out. was super annoying, could of been made much better.

• Jonny EOL — 11 Nov 2006

  Rob Hubbard's finest theme tune (and an Atari exclusive, too!) - and it soundtracked THIS? I spent ages playing this thinking it was really good - I certainly loved the concept. Then I saw other versions and realized how ripped off we Atarians really were. This could have been so much more....

• Michael Strorm — 26 Oct 2006

  This is.... *not* the best version of JSW out there. In fact I've heard it called the worst, and music aside, I'd probably agree with them. The graphics are worse than the speccy. I know that the Atari's lack of a true multicolour hi-res is a major weakness, and that medium res was probably a better choice, but they just did blockier versions of the limited spectrum graphics without (e.g.) exploiting per-pixel colour resolution and DLIs. (Look at the JSW sprite homages in Henry's House to see how they *could* have been; yeah, JSW *does* have DLIs, but only for basic gradient backgrounds). Plus, this came out three years after the original; standards had improved by then... Music is good in this version; although I slightly miss the original, this has more variety (if you listen carefully you'll hear that it goes on quite a long time before completely repeating).