I remember some of the games I played on Grandpa's XT, before I had one of my own. Other than Castle Adventure, the earliest game memory from that PC I have is Willy the Worm.
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| Willy the Worm in color mode |
Willy the Worm was released in 1985 as a shareware title from Alan Farmer in Charlottesville, Virginia. Sadly, his name is one way too common to track down, the best I found so far is a few other game credits through about 1990. This game is both simple, yet impressive for different reasons. Firstly, it was distributed with the source code, in Pascal. Secondly, it came with a level editor (also with the source code). While admittedly not a very challenging game, unless you play it on a modern speed computer, I'm sure that, in the right hands, a challenging set of levels could be designed.
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