Andres Night off is a Basic program written by Matthew Smith which appeared in the

June 1984 issue of Computer and Video Games. Here's the blurb which went with the

listing (fantastic bit of writing, this) :



 

"By now, most of you will have played or seen

Matthew Smith's latest weird and wonderful

Miner Willy epic from Software Projects, called

Jet Set Willy. But did you know that Matthew

had an idea which didn't quite make it into the

final version of that number one hit game for the

Spectrum? We bet you didn't!

     Well, Computer and Video games persuaded

our Golden Joystick Award winner, Matthew, to

give us an exclusive listing of the missing

screen. And now we're passing it on to you -

just for the price of this magazine. You can't say

we're not generous! Matthew has been slaving

away for a couple of weeks to get this game to

you - we hope you like it!

      As you already know, Miner Willy has been

spending the cash he made down the mine and 

has purchased a vast mansion - complete with

a housekeeper and a cook. Maria, the

housekeeper, gives Willy a hard time about the

mess his guests leave behind after a mammoth

party in Jet Set Willy.

      In our game, Andre the cook has waltzed off

for the evening without leaving so much as a

boiled egg for Willy to munch on! Anyway, our

hero marches down to the kitchen to make

himself a sandwich and comes face to face with

the amazing technicolour man-eating pizzas!

GASP!

      Can you survive the onslaught of these nasty

little doughy monsters? Dare you open Willys'

kitchen door? Full instructions are included in

Matthews listing - let us know if you like it!"





WOW! It sounds great, eh? I bet you can't wait to play it...



When actually playing the game, note the total dissimilarity between the plot set out

in the above and the one in the game. Mind you, no matter which plot is true, the game

is still rubbish, unfortunately. If Matty actually wrote this and it took him a

couple of weeks he must have been going through his 'Going to Clubs wearing a Toga and

getting completely wasted' phase. Anyway, enjoy...



ColB





Listing tracked down by Blade (who had to go to the National Library in Edinburgh* to find

a copy of the Magazine since it seems to have mysteriously disappeared from every attic in

the country)

 

Uploaded by colb@online.rednet.co.uk



*That's the National Library of Scotland, obviously - BTW if anyone is really interested,

 I believe they have every issue of C&VG and several other Computer Mags as well - I must

 try and find the Issue of Sinclair User that published my letter about Software Piracy

 (Games are too expensive to buy out of people's pocket money, it's not really STEALING

 if you weren't going to buy the game anyway etc,etc...).