World of Spectrum
  • Categories
  • Discussions
  • FAQ
  • Sign In
Home › Search
Title Search
@title beer Word 'beer' in title
User Search
  • @user admin Only posts by Admin
Text Search
  • @body beer Word 'beer' in the text
Phrase Search
"Hello World" Exact phrase match
Exclude Terms
  • car -red Search cars that are not red
"Or" Searches
  • honda | bmw 'honda' or 'bmw' results
Multi-Field
@(title,body) hello Both contain 'hello'
WildCard
  • hond* civ* Match all with an astrix
Combination
  • @title bmw @user admin
See more supported syntax examples
Search Again :: Adv Search 1000 results in 0.212s
<1234567…34>
  • Are there any Speccy mysteries left?In the past we've had the "Where is Matthew Smith?" mystery which has now obviously been solved as Matthew is back on the scene. More recently the B…

    ... the scene.

    More recently the Banyan Tree/MW Meets the Taxman development came to light when the ... />
    Fornax/Gath - At the start of the 90's a mate ... a lot of the programming for the original Scooby Doo (the one that ...
    Vampyre Vampyre January 2007 Chit chat
  • Miner Willy Meets The Taxmandunno about you but im tempted!! [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8101295013&category=3545"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBa…

    ... in and donate them to the collection.
    I know i ...
    Sard Sard April 2004 Games
  • What will come first: Willy Meets The Taxman or The Smiths ReunionBoth are highly improbable, but....eh, what the hell!

    Both are highly improbable, but....eh, what the hell!
    usspeccyfan usspeccyfan May 2005 Games
  • Willy Meets The BeatlesHere's the almost complete release of Willy Meets The Beatles, which you can download from [URL="http://www.sendspace.com/file/55ps31"]HERE![/URL] T…

    ... complete release of Willy Meets The Beatles,
    which you can ... excellent music needs adding to the final version too!
    ... up.

    Notes:
    The screens may appear rather linear ... Willy back and forth through the screens. This does mean that ...
    TechnicianSi TechnicianSi January 2012 Brand new software
  • Has anyone actually created JSW & The Taxman?I hear this mentioned, but has anyone actually created it?

    ... />
    Megatree and Miner Willy Meets The Taxman are separate games.

    tree. Stuart Fotheringham sold the remaining development disks ... to Retro Gamer.

    Taxman would ...
    merman merman December 2009 New game ideas
  • Just for a bit of fun...If you could walk into a charity shop, car boot sale, or whatever tommorow, and find a copy of Willy Meets the Taxman (or whatever it would have been…

    If you could walk into a charity shop, car boot sale, or whatever tommorow, and find a copy of Willy Meets the Taxman (or whatever it would have been called) or Mire Mare, which would you rather find?

    Can't have both. :)
    Stewart Stewart January 2004 Games
  • Retro Gamer issue 91 - 'Lost' Spectrum games featureJust a quick heads up that the latest issue of Retro Gamer goes on sale in the UK today and it includes an eight page article on the most famous unre…

    ... eight page article on the most famous unreleased Spectrum ... games.

    The ten titles featured are:
    Miner Willy Meets The Taxman
    The Last Ninja
    Mire ... Doo (Original Version)
    The Eye Of The Moon

    ...
    MartynC MartynC June 2011 Games
  • Completed gamesMy housemate and I are currently working our way through Deus Ex at the moment and the thought struck us that today it is actually possible to comple…

    ... to fix the Conservatory Roof, the Banyan Tree and also the invisible/ ... unreachable object in the Top ... 'feature', designed to make the game more challenging!
    ... another game, because the affected rooms will already ...
    Ed Ed February 2002 Games
  • Scooby Doo (unfinished version)Remember the early adverts for Scooby Doo? Totally different to the final game that came out about a year later. It looked as if some of it was compl…

    ... doubt that anything from the advertised version of ... interviews about :-

    The original advertised version of Scooby ... Doo
    The original advertised version of ... Ultimate
    Miner Willy meets the Taxman from Software Projects
    ...
    Steve Brown Steve Brown July 2001 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Randomize USR xxxxxA weird topic: When I was a kid I use to mess around with the RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx, sad I know!!! For instance RANDOMIZE USR 51234 would give me a loa…

    10 Print "Willy meets the Taxman"
    20 Randomise USR 1334 ... WHSmiths...gormless faces staring at the screen for half an ... which causes funny patterns on the screen, like someone mentioned ... It just adds to the classic status of the machine.
    [/quote ...
    Anonymous Anonymous November 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Most sought after gamesWhich original games are most sought after by the avid Speccy collector??

    ... like Football Fever and The Racing Game from Tanglewood ... the small ad sections of the magazines!

    Personally, the ... Sisters, the two sequels to Marsport, and Willy Meets The Taxman and ... Attack of the Mutant Zombie Flesh ...
    Derek Glen Derek Glen July 2003 Games
  • Just for a bit of fun...If you could walk into a charity shop, car boot sale, or whatever tommorow, and find a copy of Willy Meets the Taxman (or whatever it would have been…

    ... that Imagine were working on ("the most exhilarating game ever")? Did ... it ever see the light of day? I know ... Smith should write 'Miner Willy Meets the Taxman' now, and put it on ...
    Blunderbuss Blunderbuss January 2004 Games
  • Games that SHOULD have been madeI have just watched the film scum. I thought what a great speccy game this would have made. Apart from a text adventure:- >Where is your tool? Wha…

    ... and have to collect all the booze before you can escape ... YOU DIE....dont got to the toilet enough times...YOU DIE ... written in BASIC. ;)

    The game that [I]should[/I ... Willy, [I]The MegaTree[/I] (aka [I]Willy Meets The Taxman[/I]).

    andrewbroad andrewbroad March 2004 Games
  • new games you want?some questions about games for Speccy you want to see/play: 1. type? (strategy, action etc) 2. maybe sequel of some cool old game? ;) 3. 48k/128k? 4…

    ... [/I] (aka [I]Willy Meets The Taxman[/I]) - unfinished sequel to Manic ... ] - a 1980s arcade-game of the Space Invaders genre.

    andrewbroad andrewbroad May 2004 Games
  • Games that cannot be completed due to bugs - the definitive listIt would be nice if the community of WoS compiled a list of all the games that are known to be impossible to complete due to bugs. Perhaps one day, a…

    Yes it is impossible, as Andrew clearly explains on his fab site. However, I'm pretty sure that, with pixel perfect jumping, it is possible to pass right-to-left through the Banyan Tree, without converting the wall block into a floor block.
    jil jil June 2004 Games
  • idea*watches everybody run to the hills*. was just thinking about the "the world is populated by twonks " thing, and i am starting to think it would mak…

    The greatest none existant speccy game since mire mare, willy meets the taxman, his chicken game and solar jetman :)
    mel the bell mel the bell January 2005 Games
  • What will come first: Willy Meets The Taxman or The Smiths ReunionBoth are highly improbable, but....eh, what the hell!

    Willy Meets The Taxman...

    I can't see Johnny Marr wanting to reform The Smiths - If the stories about Morrissey and the bottle over Johnny's wall are true...

    [ This Message was edited by: LeeT on 2005-05-07 21:33 ]
    LeeT LeeT May 2005 Games
  • Which would be the best game to play while listening to The Smiths?This Charming Man - Jet Set Willy Big Mouth Strikes Again - any fast moving game. A classic track. Erm, that's all I can think of for now. Daren

    ... IT WAS REALLY NOTHING .. Willy meets the taxman

    THAT JOKE ISN ... ... Stonkers

    SHOPLIFTERS OF THE WORLD UNITE ... Catcha Snatcha

    THE HEADMASTER RITUAL ... Skool Daze
    chaosmongers chaosmongers May 2005 Chit chat
  • So how many of you have completed Jet Set Willy?It's obvious from these forums that there are a lot of hardcore Speccy fans here. So how many of you have completed (or come close to completing) [i]…

    ... the right side on the Banyan tree and under the Conservatory roof, and collect all the ... objects in the ... ' to get the object under the Banyan tree. Get the candle from the Chapel if you ...
    MrD MrD April 2007 Games
  • Spectrum Games You Always Wanted........I've just downloaded Gauntlet 3, a game I always wanted to play but never sampled until I discovered it on here! It's brilliant! I was just wonderi…

    Bandersnatch, Mire Mare and The Megatree (or Miner Willy Meets the Taxman)!
    merseymal merseymal June 2007 Games
  • Feeling low...I got this months retro gamer, first one since the great fold. Yay for the publishers. I've only read the Manic Miner and the the Matthew Smith atic…

    ... made me feel the same way...
    Basically, the guy got dumped ... own making and partly by the actions of others...

    If you read the interview with him and his ... to fund him to produce the 'Willy meets the Taxman' game he was talking ...
    andrew_rollings andrew_rollings March 2008 Chit chat
  • Time travel gamesDo you remember any game in which you travel through the time, past, future,...? The games I know: Back to the Future Back to the Future II Back to…

    ... called [b][i]Miner Willy Meets The Taxman[/i][/b].

    "You ... with the Celtic tribes in, back to the Romans, who were the first ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad March 2008 Games
  • Time travel gamesDo you remember any game in which you travel through the time, past, future,...? The games I know: Back to the Future Back to the Future II Back to…

    ... called [b][i]Miner Willy Meets The Taxman[/i][/b].

    "You ... with the Celtic tribes in, back to the Romans, who were the first ... />
    Deja-freaking-Vu! Where the heck have I seen this ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman March 2008 Games
  • Retro Remakes 2008 Competition is go! (Spectrum games welcome!)...and this time they are accepting games coded on retro platforms so I would love to see some new Spectrum games be built for the competition. :) T…

    ... retro mash-ups coded on the Spectrum.
    [/QUOTE]

    the rules.

    Games that ... nothing with that. Miner Willy Meets the Taxman, perhaps. There's potential for ...
    Code Monkey Code Monkey September 2008 Chit chat
  • Top 5 Never Released GamesWhich are the Top 5 Never Released Games? I mean games that we know that started being coded, or were intended to but finally didn't come out. 1-Tok…

    ... .

    2: Willy Meets the Taxman.

    There were remnants ... but sadly it never saw the light of day :(
    ...
    3: The Speccy version of Rimrunner.
    5: Bandersnatch

    the amazing memory expanded super game ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek December 2008 Games
  • Top Never Released GameWhich is the most famous never released game?? Choose one!

    [QUOTE=JuanF. Ramirez;323053]Definitely, Mire Mare.[/QUOTE]

    Nah! In my school days the talk was mostly about 'Willy Meets The Taxman'. I can't really remember many people going on about Mire Mare.
    CUCHULAINN CUCHULAINN December 2008 Games
  • Top Never Released GameWhich is the most famous never released game?? Choose one!

    ... Man game? I admired the Sabre Man games but ... didn't know about the Mire Mare buzz until ... to be for either Willy Meets the Taxman or Great Giana Sisters. ... missing game really - possibly the loss is still felt ... very tantalising one as the Crash Smash review makes ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack December 2008 Games
  • Top Never Released GameWhich is the most famous never released game?? Choose one!

    Mire Mare for me, but honourable mention for Willy Meets the taxman
    ChuckieEgg ChuckieEgg January 2009 Games
  • make up some stupid game names?Just for a joke really, since certain people on an auction site can't be ars... errm bothered to list their games.. I thought I'd ask if they had..h…

    R-Type IV : R-Swipe
    Horace Meets the Taxman
    Ninja Spider
    Bratman (Jack The Nipper IV)
    Continental Stercus
    joefish joefish November 2009 Chit chat
  • Has anyone actually created JSW & The Taxman?I hear this mentioned, but has anyone actually created it?

    ... />
    'Willy Meets the Taxman' was supposed to be the title of the next game ... in the series by ... an edit of JSW under the name. They'd probably get ...
    joefish joefish December 2009 New game ideas
<1234567…34>

Latest Posts

  • European Software Titles with an English version
    harriusherbartio on 12:06PM
  • How Do You Categorize Your Speccy Software and Games?
    harriusherbartio on 11:21AM
  • Fixed Speccy Software. And which games remained unfixed?
    harriusherbartio on 11:01AM
  • I am currently watching.....
    Paradigm Shifter on 12:49AM
  • New video about S-video modification on Issue two 48K Spectrum.
    Renegade on April 21
  • Happy 40th Birthday to the Amstrad CPC464!
    rich_chandler on April 21
  • Another Birthday! The Game Boy Is 35!
    mel the bell on April 21
  • Elusive Strategy Games done by the Smaller or less Prolific Software Houses.
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • 1992 Spectrum Software
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • +3 Disk drive motor
    AndyC on April 21

HitBox

Word Docs Hits
banyan 92 103
tree 2.1K 2.7K
mw 128 247
meets 705 767
the 704.9K 3.1M
taxman 107 112

Related Threads

  • What will come first: Willy Meets The Taxman or The Smiths ReunionBoth are highly improbable, but....eh, what the hell!
  • The 1980's The Good the Bad and the Ugly.Was listening to random 80's music on youtube today and could not help notice the video to Lionel Richie's Hello. Were a lecturer falls in love with …
  • The Good, the Bad & the UglyWhich games, in your opinion, were better on the Commode 64 and Amsad CPC than the Speccy? And vice-versa? I ask because I believe that many Speccy g…
  • What are the differences between the +2 and the +2A ?I only acquired a +2 for the first time in my life a few months ago. It works fine. :) I even managed to tracke down nearly all the wargames by the s…
  • The Great Mystification: A reflection upon the feebleness of the "distribution denied" policyThis argument has been debated several other times in this place, yet I have not expressed my thoughts about it, and I would like to hear comments by…
  • The hills are alive with the sound of...silence? Music in Nemesis the Warlock 128I know that there is music in the game somewhere, but where is it? Do you have to turn it on (Oo er!!!). Or am I being very stupid?<br /> <br /> P.S.…
  • How to load the "Cromwell at War" and "The Wars of the Roses" TZX filesHello<br /> <br /> The new TZX versions of the "Cromwell at War" and "The Wars of the Roses" available from the archives (and I take this opportunity…
  • Miner Willy Meets The Taxmandunno about you but im tempted!!<br /> <br /> [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=8101295013&amp;category=3545"]http://c…
  • do all the games in the archive play on the windows ce version?I have a compaq 810 handheld pc. I downloaded the version of spectrum for MIPS handheld devices. Now I would like to download some games to play o…
  • what are the differences between the 48K spectrum and the spectrum+ ?^^^^^ see above ^^^^^

Related Searches

  • this is the conspiracy
  • the wire
  • the real ghostbusters
  • eye of the beholder
  • the goonies
  • the double
  • the speccies
  • the speccies 2
  • true stories found on the net
  • the adventure game i m trying to complete
  • the curse of calutha
  • the planets
  • battle of the planets
  • shadow of the unicorn
  • the archers
  • house on the tor
  • banyan tree
  • willy meets the beatles
  • meets the taxman
  • tree stones the guild

Copyright © 2024 World of Spectrum