Publisher`s description - Everyones a Wally: ZX Spectrum
The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the UK in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd, which sold in excess of 5 million units worldwide. More than 10,000 games were released for the ZX Spectrum.
Everyone’s A Wally for the ZX Spectrum (one of fewer than 200 ZX Spectrum games being re-released as a Windows 8 app) is one of THE defining games of the 1980s.
The Everyone’s A Wally: ZX Spectrum app is the near-100% original ZX Spectrum game, as developed by Chris Hinsley and published by Mikro-gen in 1985 and is brought to you - as an officially licenced product - utilizing our ZX Spectrum: Elite Collection HD technology.
About Everyone’s A Wally: the effective sequel to Pyjamarama, it featured the same hero character, Wally Week, and used an upgraded version of the same game engine. The original tape cassette version of Everyone's a Wally featured a Mike Berry song about the game recorded as an audio track on the B side.
Game-play Everyone’s A Wally: Everyone's a Wally was the first arcade adventure game to feature multiple playable characters - a revolutionary feature at the time. Players began in control of Wally (a handyman), but could switch to Wilma (his wife), and their friends Tom (a punk mechanic), Dick (a plumber) and Harry (a hippie electrician) - these last three names drawn from the placeholder phrase Tom, Dick and Harry. Herbert (their baby son) also appeared in the game as a mobile hazard NPC. The player cannot freely change character; the player begins in control of Wally and, in order to switch to another character, must first locate them. Characters not being controlled by the player wander randomly around the map controlled by extremely simple AI - another feature that, at the time, had never been seen before. Lives and health (called "endurance") were tracked independently for each character, but the game ended if any character died. The aim of the game is to complete a day's worth of work for each character; each character has a job to do stereotypical of their skill - for instance, Wally has to build a wall, Wilma has to take back three Books to the Library, etc. Completing the job awards the character with a letter, which spells out a password to open a safe holding everyone's wages. (The eventual password is "BREAK" - knowing this does not spoil the game since most of the letters can be seen before jobs are complete; the game requires them to be actually collected before allowing the safe to open.)
About Elite®: Elite Systems Ltd was incorporated in England in 1984.
Feature:
- - 100% original ZX Spectrum game, as developed by Chris Hinsley in 1985
- - ‘auto save’, on exiting the game
- - authentic 'Spectrum' sound
- - officially licenced product
- - user-definable control of location of on-screen "joystick" and "fire button" control (in Settings Charm)
- - user-definable control of opacity of on-screen "joystick" and "fire button" control (in Settings Charm)
