The Adventures of Willy Beamish
| The Adventures of Willy Beamish | |
|---|---|
| Studio | Dynamix |
| Publisher | Sierra On-line |
| Senior Developer | Jeffrey Tunnell |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1991 |
| platform | Amiga , DOS , Mac OS , Sega Mega-CD |
| genre | Point-and-click adventure |
| Game mode | Single player |
| medium | 3.5 "floppy disk , download |
| language | English |
The Adventure of Willy Beamish is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra On-line in 1991 . The game is a parody of the adventure games of the time. At first the game was only released for DOS and Amiga .
action
The player takes on the role of Willy Beamish, a generation Y child who grows up in a typical American family. He has an older sister (Tiffany) and a younger sister (Briana), whom Willy often has to look after. He enjoys playing video games and roaming the city with his gang. He is also interested in the supernatural , for example he often receives visits from the afterlife from his late grandfather.
Willy wants to qualify for the national "Nintari" tournament (an artificial word from Nintendo and Atari ). However, he soon realizes that this is a very difficult goal to achieve as there are some difficulties: his video game skills are failing, his father is losing his job, the babysitter is a vampire, a gang of teenagers is terrorizing the town and the plumbers are planning a riot .
Game principle and technology
The course of the game is influenced by the actions of the player. For example, Willy has to go to school in the afternoons at the beginning of the game because his frog "Horny" stole the wig from the headmaster at the final meeting at the end of the school year. At the same time, his school report arrives at home in the mail. Willy has to prevent his parents from seeing the certificate because he received a "C" in music (roughly equivalent to a grade of 3 in Germany), which his parents would not like at all. The player has the choice whether Willy brings his detention to an end or escapes him to forge his certificate. A so-called Trouble-O-Meter shows the player whether his actions were correct. The display rises if the decisions are wrong. If it has reached the highest level, Willy is sent to a military school by his parents and the player is game over .
Production notes
The Sega Mega CD version, released in 1993, had some special features:
- Graphics improvements and speech dialogues instead of text dialogues. However, the additional calls always follow the same pattern. In addition, critics complain that the game has lost its atmosphere due to the sometimes poorly recorded sound.
- To shorten the long loading time at the beginning of the game, you could play a mini-game during the loading time in which you had to push white and black balls through the area.
- On the "Nintari" game console in Willy's room, a mini-game could be played that was a mixture of Tetris , Arkanoid and Space Invaders .
In 2017, a version that ran on modern Windows computers appeared on the digital sales platform GOG .
reception
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Eva Hoogh put The Adventures of Willy Beamish in the ASM in a row with earlier Adventures by Sierra, but it is "more loving" than those and offers thematically a change from the usual Sierra portfolio. Hoogh positively emphasized the game's humor, but criticized the vague target group definition - numerous inside jokes made Willy Beamish inaccessible to a younger target group, while older players might not be able to get used to the child-friendly scenario. The Power Play referred to the game as a "learning software with interspersed minimum tasks," the learning of English children is appropriate, but from the adventure fans "can significantly fingers (...)" should.
Web links
- The Adventures of Willy Beamish at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ GOG.com: Release: The Adventures of Willy Beamish. Retrieved May 25, 2018 .
- ↑ a b ASM 2/92: A hot summer in the city. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Volker Weitz: Willy Beamish . In: Power Play . January 1992.
