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Is it true Jet Set Willy is incompletable due to a bug?

>> No.7046327

>>7046318
It’s not possible to complete - you fall asleep from boredom before you can actually beat the game.

>> No.7046386
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7046386

>one of the best selling video games of all time
Alright faggots time to confess, who edited the page?

>> No.7046391

>>7046318
Yeah
No idea why people shill it on this board so much

>> No.7046393

>>7046318
There are literally videos on YouTube of people completing the game. Why did you make this thread?

>> No.7046402

>>7046393
That was a later revision. Apparently the early releases had game breaking bugs.

>Upon release, the game could not be completed due to several bugs. Although four completely unrelated issues, they became known collectively as "The Attic Bug."[4] After entering The Attic screen, various rooms would undergo corruption for all subsequent playthroughs, including all monsters disappearing from The Chapel screen, and other screens triggering a game over. This was caused by an error in the path of an arrow in The Attic, resulting in the sprite traveling past the end of the Spectrum's video memory and overwriting crucial game data instead. Initially Software Projects attempted to pass this bug off as an intentional feature to make the game more difficult,[5] claiming that the rooms in question were filled with poison gas. However, they later rescinded this claim and issued a set of POKEs to correct the flaws.[6][7]

I guess those would have been published in magazines at the time?

>> No.7046403
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7046403

>>7046393
I can hear your two brain cells rattling around.

>> No.7046452

>>7046403
Those are your own brain cells, darling. It says right there in the image that they corrected the errors. OP can play through JSW fine today if he chose to.

>> No.7046467

>>7046318
That is some fucking dogshit art right there

>> No.7046471

>>7046452
It's almost like the OP didn't want to have a literal discussion of his concrete words

>> No.7046616

>>7046318
Yeah I saw Guru Larrys video too

>> No.7046637

>>7046391
Its not true you tripfaggot nonce, furthermore it is discussed so much because it is first in the genre that would later be known as Willyvania

>> No.7047075

>>7046386
Well if it's not THE worst selling game of all time then it's technically one of the best selling.

>> No.7047086

>>7046403
It's really cool that consumers could look at the code and realize what was going wrong and even release a patch for it.

>> No.7047090

>>7046386
>>7047075
It was one of the best selling games on Spectrum and made Matthew Smith, the 17 year old kid who made it, a millionaire.

Matthew Smith has said the development of Jet Set Willy was such a bad experience and so fueled by substances that he doesn't like thinking about it. Manic Miner was a smash hit and the publishers wanted a sequel. He's broke and mentally ill nowadays, usually won't talk about JSW and will say his therapists specifically tell him not to.

>> No.7047092

>>7046403
>>7047086
It's more telling about the lowly state of the UK software industry that they had to ask their customers to fix all the bugs they couldn't be bothered to correct before shipping it.

>> No.7047096

>>7047090
I have no sympathy for the guy because every programmer in every country is working crunch slave hours but that's no excuse to completely self destruct his own life.

>> No.7047134

>>7047096
I imagine there's probably more to the story than the paragraph you read on 4chan, anon