Jet Set Willy GeoGuesser
I made this!
Can you remember every room in Jet Set Willy's mansion? As per Rob's request in newsletter 785. Not niche at all.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 13:59,
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incredible
this took me back and I was amazed at how good I was at this having not thought about this since I was about 10 years old.
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It is testing is the theory
that there's a percentage of 40-something men who played it so much that it's just permanently there. The map-making probably reinforced it.
See also:
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/man-still-knows-where-all-the-rooms-are-in-jet-set-willy-20180418147489
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monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 14:45,
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1/5
I don't think I ever played this on the Speccy. Definitely had Manic Miner on the C64 though.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 14:31,
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Oooh
Can we have a Manic Miner one too?
One that plays In The Hall Of The Mountain King, obvs
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ousgg is not seeking approval, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 15:51,
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There wasn't a map to Manic Miner.
I'm actually struggling to think of other big games that were flip-screen and had room names.
Don't think Dizzy rooms had names.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 19:06,
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Dizzy on the Game Gear did.
So did Mad Professor Moriarty as I recall.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 19:46,
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I’m a bit too young for JSW but I see what you mean.
I had to reinstall Quake3 so many times I can still rattle off the cd key from memory.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 16:58,
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How much of our lives were spent on games...
I know the S.T.A.L.K.E.R map in huge detail.
Quake 3 was ace though.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 17:34,
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Q3 in 3D with shutter glasses was fun.
Gave me a blinding headache though.
Back in the day playing FFVII was a major undertaking: the install was a massive 1.3GB so I had to uninstall pretty much everything besides Windows to have enough space.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 17:49,
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ahem
vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/elite-dangerous/images/f/f7/Frontier-Elite-2-Star-Map-Scan.jpg
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 18:07,
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That file appears to use even more space than Final Fantasy
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jonbob loves you, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 18:46,
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And that was just the poster. The actual in-game map was millions of times larger.
And each system may have multiple stars, each with multiple planets.
All on a single floppy.
Just don't try to visit Beta Lyrae.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 19:00,
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I thought everyone who passed by stopped for a look.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 19:10,
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I'll just look at the one in my attic.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 20:47,
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I'd be wary of using that as an indication of the size of the game...
It was procedurally generated and, as far as I recall, included a number of one-way routes where it ended up impossible to travel to another star system (one of many issues with the game).
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 21:59,
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If your hyperdrive could get you the distance there, it can get you the same distance back, so one-way routes are impossible.
Although it was possible to travel far on your fancy hyperdrive only for it to fail and turn into several tonnes of rubbish, and the only spaceport nearby don't stock such fancy hyperdrives so you end up stuck that way.
Of course you'd just have to trade your fancy ship for the smallest available and jump back to civilisation.
Alternatively, use the 650(? ish?) light year trick to find a route home. Basically if you keep scrolling the map far away enough your low range hyperdrive inexplicably sees that bubble as being right next to you.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sat 13 Nov 2021, 16:54,
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i'm too fucking old
Table tennis (pre-pong) then a gap and some asteroids and invaders ( defenders?) and one day I got an intellivision console and played d&d until the fever dreams drove me bi-polar
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unclepills, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 18:14,
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1/5
The only one i got was the master bedroom.
Willy's housekeeper never looked very nice and she was bossy too.
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