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Tynesoft
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I've never liked
this game. I saw it when it was initially released on the Spectrum
and Commodore and could never quite understand what all the fuss was
about. Mind you, I was reared on stuff like Astrochase and Blue Max
and Necromancer, so maybe that had a lot to do with it? Anyway,
despite the silly little matchstick graphics and the fact that you
needed a magnifying glass to even see anything on the TV screen,
despite the game being full of bugs, meaning you could step into a
trap and lose all your remaining lives without being able to do
anything about it, despite having to type in a hundred different
'cheat' pokes to override the bugs in order to complete the game, it
still managed to top the software charts and earn the dubious
accolade of 'Game of the Year'.
So who's kidding who? Well, owners of those 'other'
computers will defend JET SET WILLY come hell or high water and,
indeed, they sang it's praises right up until the very moment they
were carted off to the Funny Farm by the men in white coats. Half a
million loonies can't be wrong, or can they? They'll be telling us
next that the latest Status Quo single isn't exactly the same as the
last one!
And
now JET SET WILLY has arrived on the Atari (why us?) and, in the
interests of fair-play, I am prepared to cast all prejudices aside
in order to give it a fair crack of the whip. Okay, I've looked at
it, played it, studied it in great detail and it's terrible!
The Atari version is an insult to the Atari. The
colours are dreadful, sound non-existent apart from the brilliant
theme music from master composer Rob Hubbard and the graphics are
totally inferior to all other versions when we know they should be
better, and the animation is a joke. Instead of the super smooth
animation we are used to on the Atari, the characters move around in
a jerky, stop-start motion which manages to look passable until you
compare it with the Spectrum/Commodore versions. Come off it
Tynesoft you can do better than this. Commodore and Spectrum owners
will laugh their socks off when they see it and that's the last
thing the Atari needs. Can you imagine what the mainstream
'anti-Atari' computer press are going to say should they get their
hands on a review copy? They seldom miss a chance to put the Atari
down.
Please
try again Tynesoft - we need your continued support - but no more
conversions. Stick to original material until you get to know the
machine a lot better. If you want to see how it's done, take a look
at STARQUAKE from Bubble Bus.
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