![]() ![]() His BASIC games are good, but not good enough to gain acceptance from a publisher, so he sells his prized BMX bicycle to buy books on Atari 6502 assembler, a coffee percolator, and for curiosity’s sake, Programming the Z80. now has an impressive portfolio spanning his his nearly four decades at the forefront of gaming, but his story starts in 1982 as a diabetic British Pakistani teenager from a not-privileged background in London writing in BASIC on his Atari 400. An acceptance letter like this from Artic Software would have been the wildest dream of any early-80s bedroom coder. Its portrayal of a young British bedroom coder finding his way into the home computer games industry of the early 1980s was of course fictional and dramatised, but for those interested in a real-life parallel without the protagonist succumbing to an obsession with supernatural book there’s a recent epic Twitter thread charting an industry veteran’s path into the business. ![]() ![]() It’s expected to be followed by more classic ZX Spectrum Games.If you are a follower of retrocomputing, perhaps you caught the interactive Black Mirror episode Bandersnatch when it came out on Netflix. The release of Jet Set Willy 360 follows the positive reception and a successful launch of Manic Miner 360 as an Xbox Live Indie Game and as a Windows Phone game. "We began doing this some 22 months ago with our ZX Spectrum: Elite Collection Apps for iOS devices and in the intervening period there have been more than 100,000 paid instances. Elite MD Steve Wilcox explained, "The release of Jet Set Willy 360 as an Xbox Live Indie Game and as a Windows Phone game is the next exciting step in bringing classic ZX Spectrum games to a new audience, via new devices and platforms and in the process restoring some order to the market. The game arrives courtesy of developer Elite Systems, who is apparently also considering bringing more classic re-releases to Microsoft's console. Jet Set Willy is the sequel to 1983's Manic Miner, and tasks you with tidying up Willy's house following a huge party in order to gain access to his bedroom. A Windows Phone version will also be released on the same date. The game will become available on August 24 as an Xbox Live Indie game available on Xbox Live. ![]()
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