Miner Willy
Miner Willy is the protagonist in a series of platform games for the ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64 home computers. The first two games - Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy were written by Matthew Smith during the early 1980s.
The Willy saga was to be a trilogy and a third game in the series was planned, Miner Willy Meets The Taxman.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The series started in 1983 with the release of Manic Miner, and was followed up a year later with Jet Set Willy and Jet Set Willy II. Another game in the series, The Perils of Willy, was released solely for the VIC-20.<ref>The Perils of Willy at VIC 20 Gamer Template:Webarchive</ref> Andre's Night Off was published as a type-in listing in the June 1984 issue of Computer & Video Games.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In addition, quite a few unofficial sequels, remakes, homages and updates have been released.<ref>World of Spectrum listing, showing the large number of fan-made Jet Set Willy sequels.</ref>
Games in the seriesEdit
- Manic Miner (1983), Bug-Byte / Software Projects
- Jet Set Willy (1984), Software Projects
- The Perils of Willy (1984), Software Projects
- Andre's Night Off (1984), Matthew Smith
- Jet Set Willy II (1985), Software Projects