History VideoGame / JetSetWilly

Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio'', an unrelated game.

** "We Must Perform a Quirkafleeg" is a shout-out to the comic strip ''[[TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers Fat Freddy' s Cat]]'', where it is a bizarre ritual a tourist performs in a foreign country upon seeing dead furry animals. Also, the Game Over scene is [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus a giant foot coming down and crushing you]].

Not to be confused with ''JetSetRadio'', an unrelated game.

** ''[=JSW2=]'' also had (amongst the first few rooms entered) "Macaroni Ted" (referencing ''TechnicianTed'', whose authors worked at Marconi) and "Dumb Waiter" (a TakeThat to Imagine's ''WackyWaiter''). It even had a ShoutOut to [[ManicMiner the first game in the series]], in "Down T' Pit". It also has [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "Beam me Down Spotty"]] leading to a planet surface or to the Bathroom, and [[BeamMeUpScotty "Beam me Up Spotty"]] (the last room of the planet) leading back to "Beam me Down Spotty".

** And don't forget the Emergency Power Generator, which consists of [[PinkFloyd a flying pig above a miniature indoor Battersea Power Station]].

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: ''Jet Set Willy'' was beset by rumours that you could sail the ship (the rooms "The Bow" and "The Yacht") to an island. The programmers put this feature in, as noted above, in the sequel.

With regard to gameplay, ''Jet Set Willy'' is one of the first multi-room (''ManicMiner'' had single room levels) GottaCollectThemAll [[PlatformGame Platform Games]]. There is a sequel, ''Jet Set Willy 2: The Final Frontier'', which is an extended version of the original (spawned as a result of [[SoftwarePorting porting]] to the UsefulNotes/AmstradCPC and back again), with the unwinnable condition fixed.

** According to WordOfGod, the reason that the Cartography Room was one of the rooms added to the UsefulNotes/AmstradCPC [[SoftwarePorting port]] is because the code has a built-in teleport cheat routine involving this room. (In the released version, it was disabled but not removed -- it was deliberately left in for fans to find and enable, which requires just three [=POKEs=].) The ZX Spectrum [=JSW2=] also contains this feature.

* SoftwarePorting: The game has been ported to a lot of systems, most versions having a different theme tune.

* HereWeGoAGain: At the end of [=JSW2=], Willy ends up in "The Central Cavern" -- the first level of ''VideoGame/ManicMiner''

** According to WordOfGod, the reason that the Cartography Room was one of the rooms added to the AmstradCPC [[SoftwarePorting port]] is because the code has a built-in teleport cheat routine involving this room. (In the released version, it was disabled but not removed -- it was deliberately left in for fans to find and enable, which requires just three [=POKEs=].) The ZX Spectrum [=JSW2=] also contains this feature.

With regard to gameplay, ''Jet Set Willy'' is one of the first multi-room (''ManicMiner'' had single room levels) GottaCollectThemAll [[PlatformGame Platform Games]]. There is a sequel, ''Jet Set Willy 2: The Final Frontier'', which is an extended version of the original (spawned as a result of [[SoftwarePorting porting]] to the AmstradCPC and back again), with the unwinnable condition fixed.

''Jet Set Willy'' is a computer game originally released in 1984. It was released first on the ZXSpectrum, but was later released on [[StealthPun multiple platforms]]. It is a sequel to ''ManicMiner''. The plot is that Willy had bought his new house with the money from the previous game, but it is unexplored and full of what are probably [[MadScientist the previous owner's]] experiments. After a celebratory party, the place is chaos and his housekeeper Maria won't let him go to bed until he sorts it out. Willy must tidy up the mansion so he can get some much needed sleep.

A very faithful java version can be played [[http://www.darnkitty.com/jsw/ here]].

* DeadEndRoom: "Entrace To Hades". In [=JSW2=], also "Water Supply".

** And just above "Entrace To Hades", you'll find "[[Music/{{ACDC}} Highway to Hell]]".

* CycleOfHurting: In the first game, when you died, you started your new life where you entered the current room. Unfortunately, if you had just fallen to your death from the room above, prepare to watch helplessly as every single one of your remaining lives goes splat. (The sequel would restart you on the last solid surface you were on.)
** Which was arguably worse, since half the time you would repeatedly respawn on top of a monster. Hello, RageQuit!

* TakeThat: The leftmost of the rooftop rooms is called Nomen Luni, a parody of Imagine Software's motto [[CanisLatinicus "Nomen Ludi"]] ("the name of the game"). This room and the room below together represent the aeroplane from Imagine's ''Zzoom'', which apparently has crashed on the roof. The rest of the rooftop scenes parody ''Hunchback''.

* ShoutOut: "We Must Perform a Quirkafleeg" is a shout-out to the comic strip ''[[TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers Fat Freddy' s Cat]]'', where it is a bizarre ritual a tourist performs in a foreign country upon seeing dead furry animals. Also, the Game Over scene is [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus a giant foot coming down and crushing you]].

** And one of the space rooms ("Loony Jet Set") is a tribute to {{Ultimate}}'s ''{{Jetpac}}''; and slightly further along, "Eggoids" is the same for their ''LunarJetman''.

* ShoutOut: "We Must Perform a Quirkafleeg" is a shout-out to the comic strip ''FatFreddysCat'', where it is a bizarre ritual a tourist performs in a foreign country upon seeing dead furry animals. Also, the Game Over scene is [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus a giant foot coming down and crushing you]].

* CopyProtection: The game came with a sheet of codes. You would look up the line letter and column number and type in the colour that appeared there. Repeat three times to get the game to start. (This has been disabled on the versions you can get on emulators now.)

* ShoutOut: "We Must Perform a Quirkafleeg" is a shout-out to the comic strip ''FatFreddysCat'', where it is a bizarre ritual a tourist performs in a foreign country upon seeing dead furry animals. Also, the Game Over scene is [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus a giant foot coming down and crushing you]].

** And in ''[=JSW2=]'', you can fly a rocket into space. Complete the Cartography Room, and you'll note that the rooms making up the space area form a shape that looks suspiciously like the [[StarTrek Enterprise]]. (One of the first rooms is called ''NCC 1501''; along and up a bit is ''The TROUBLE with TRIBBLES is...''.)
** ''[=JSW2=]'' also had (amongst the first few rooms entered) "Macaroni Ted" (referencing ''TechnicianTed'', whose authors worked at Marconi) and "Dumb Waiter" (a TakeThat to Imagine's ''WackyWaiter''). It even had a ShoutOut to [[ManicMiner the first game in the series]], in "Down T' Pit". It also has [[StarTrek "Beam me Down Spotty"]] leading to a planet surface or to the Bathroom, and [[BeamMeUpScotty "Beam me Up Spotty"]] (the last room of the planet) leading back to "Beam me Down Spotty".

** Which was arguably worse, since half the time you would repeatedly respawn on top of a monster. Hello, [[RageQuit Rage Quit]]!

* PopCulturalOsmosis: The first movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is the title music.

YMMV tropes can be found here:[[YMMV/JetSetWilly Jet Set Willy Subjective Tropes.]]

!!Jet Set Willy contains these tropes: