Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2025?

JAB <noway@nochance.com> writes:

The plus side is that I both forgot just how hard the games were and
also how much that feds into to that almost addiction of just one my
try as you failed that pixel perfect jump on Manic Miner.

Yah. I have very little nostalgia for the old computer games. They felt
crappy already in the 90s with the then crappy emulators on 486 PCs. And
they haven't gotten better with time. But for some reason I don't quite
feel the same about arcade games.

I have fun memories of Jet Set Willy though, it's probably one of the
few Spectrum games I've played a lot. One reason is, it wasn't easily
available on the C64 and as I recall, it has bugs and can't be finished
as shipped. Or, with a peek into Wikipedia, various versions had various
bugs. Not that I ever got anywhere close to finishing it, bugs or
no. But I remember maps and walkthroughs were posted, at least for Jet
Set Willy II which isn't actually a new game, just with the bug fixes
and some extra rooms.

Funny bit of trivia, for weird reasons the distributor of Spectrums here
was an electronics compnent distributor and they typically loaded Jet
Set Willy on their demo machine when their honest to god electronics
component shop in my home town opened each morning. So some of us spent
quite a lot of time in that store playing JSW, maybe even learned a
little about electronics through osmosis, I dunno.

The Gun Seller (book)
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Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look. I'm kinda stuck with nothing good
to read and have a business trip coming up where I'll likely have quite
a lot of tedious waiting and travel time.