Lazy Jones
| Lazy Jones | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Terminal software |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1984 |
| platform | C64 , MSX , ZX Spectrum , KC 85 |
| genre | Jump 'n' run |
| Game mode | Single player |
| language | English |
Lazy Jones is a classic computer game by David Whittaker / Terminal Software from 1984. It was released for the C64 , MSX and ZX Spectrum .
description
Lazy Jones consists of 14 mini-games . The game character is portrayed as a lazy hotel employee who prefers to play video games instead of doing his job. These computer games, which the player perceives as mini-games, are hidden behind different doors within a three-story hotel. If the playing figure touches one of two people or a cleaning cart moving in the corridors of the hotel, the player loses a life . It is also possible to lose life in some of the mini-games. If all rooms have been entered once, the game starts over. However, the enemies move faster.
The title melody of the game consists partly of replicas of well-known pieces of music from the 1980s. For example, it uses 99 balloons from Nena and Fade to Gray from Visage . A melody composed by Whittaker himself, that of the sub-game Star Dust , was covered by Florian Senfter (aka John Starlight) under the project name Zombie Nation in the song Kernkraft 400 . This cover version was a hit in the club scene in 1999 and is now one of the most successful songs in electronic instrumental music.
The game was also (unofficially) ported to the GDR small computer KC 85 and sold there commercially as CLUB-X .
Undergames
- 99 red balloons
- Eggie Chuck
- Jay Walk
- Laser Jones
- Outland
- Res Q
- Scoot
- Star Dust
- The Hills Are Alive
- The reflex
- The Turk
- The Wall
- Wild wafers
- Wipeout