The Adventures of Willy Beamish

The Adventure of Willy Beamish is a point-and - click adventure game that was released by Sierra On -Line in 1991. The game is a parody of the Adventures of the time and one of the first to use hand-drawn pictures. First, the game was only released for DOS and Amiga. 1993 appeared a port for the Sega Mega - CD issued that contains some graphics improvements, speech dialogs instead of text dialogues. Critics, however, that the game has lost through the partially poorly recorded sound in atmosphere. The additional conversations are being always follow the same pattern.

Action

The player takes on the role of Willy Beamish, a child of Generation Y growing up in a typical American family. He has an older sister ( Tiffany ) and a younger sister ( Briana ) to the Willy has to take care of times. Like all children of his generation, Willy likes to play video games and moves with his band through the city. He also is interested in the supernatural, for example, he often receives visits from beyond the grave of his deceased grandfather.

Willy wants to be for the national tournament qualify Nintari ( A portmanteau of Nintendo and Atari ). But soon he has to realize that this is a very difficult goal to achieve, as there are some difficulties: his video game skills fail, his father loses his job, the babysitter 's a vampire, a gang of youths terrorizes the city and the plumbers are planning an uprising.

Through the actions of the player's gameplay is affected. So Willy has to afternoon detention since his frog " Horny" was the end of school year the director stole the wig at the final meeting, for example, at the beginning of the game in school. The same time come home to his school certificate in the mail. Willy has to prevent his parents get the witness to face, as it was in music a "C" ( roughly equivalent to a score of 3 in Germany ) has received, what would his parents did not like. The player has the choice of whether Willy brings his detention to an end or that escapes to falsify his testimony. A so-called Trouble -O-Meter shows the player whether his actions were right. In case of wrong decisions, the display increases. Has she reached high, Willy is sent by his parents to a military school and the player is game over.

Special features of the Mega - CD version

• To shorten the long loading time at the beginning of the game, you can load-time play a mini-game, you have to come by white and black balls through the area.
• The picture hangs in some scenes.
• On the Nintari in Willys room a mini-game can be played, which corresponds to a mix of Tetris, Arkanoid and Space Invaders.