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Versions and minor mods of the original Jet Set Willy

 

Jet Set Willy: April Showers

Author: Dave Nicholls

Year: 1985

Language: English

 

The room "April Showers" (47) was published as a type-in in Issue 13 (April 1985) of Your Spectrum. It was meant to be an April Fool joke, to get people to play JSW again long after they had stopped. Your Spectrum ran a competition to find it (the room is situated above "The Beach" and has a one-way exit to the right, which leads to "The Attic"). There is a single item in the room and it is, in fact, the invisible item repositioned from its original location of "First Landing".

The "April Showers" room has been included in the games Party Willy (by Andrew Broad, 2004; Special Edition 2007) and Jet Set Willy: The 2010 Megamix (and its first incarnation Jet Set Willy: The 2005 Megamix) (by Daniel Gromann, Paul Equinox Collins and others, 2010 and 2005, respectively).

 

Number of edited rooms: 61

Number of rooms accessible without cheating: 61

Number of rooms which need to be visited to complete the game: 60

("Entrance to Hades" [06] should be omitted as entering it results in a multiple-death scenario.)

Number of items to collect: 83

 

Completable without loss of life? NO

Lives which need to be sacrificed to complete the game: 1

(A life has to be sacrificed to collect the leftmost item in "Conservatory Roof" [43]).

 

Starting time: 7:00 am

Best documented completion time with no unnecessary loss of life: 8:00 am

 

Download links

 

jswremakes

Jet Set Willy Remakes

The page of the original JSW on Jet Set Willy Remakes, with a ready-to-play game file (called Jet Set Willy: April the 1st Edition) in SNA format

   

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Unofficial release

Game file of the April Showers version in SNA format

   

directdownload

Direct game download

Game file of the April Showers version in TAP and TZX formats

   

wos

World of Spectrum

The game's page of WoS

   

spectrumcomputing

Spectrum Computing

The game's page on Spectrum Computing

   

jswcentralspecial

JSW Central

RZX walkthrough of the game showing the best documented completion time

 

 

Picture gallery

 

The new room

 

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The remaining screens look the same as in the original JSW.

 

The original Your Spectrum article

 

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