The Adventures of Willy Beamish

The Adventures of Willy Beamish
Developer(s)Dynamix
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Jeff Tunnell
Programmer(s)Louie McCrady
Artist(s)Shawn Sharp
Writer(s)Meryl Perutz
Tony Perutz
David Selle
Tom Brooke
Composer(s)Christopher Stevens
Jan Paul Moorhead
Don Latarski
Platform(s)
ReleaseAmiga, MS-DOS
  • WW: 1991
Macintosh
  • WW: 1992
Sega CD
  • WW: 1993
Genre(s)Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

The Adventures of Willy Beamish is a graphic adventure game developed by Dynamix and published in 1991 by Sierra On-Line. The player takes on the role of the eponymous youngster in a game that somewhat parodies the adventure genre. The game pioneered the use of in-game graphics drawn to resemble classic hand-drawn cartoon animation.[citation needed] It was initially released for MS-DOS and the Amiga and was ported to the Sega CD in 1993. CD versions of the game complemented the in-game text with speech, and included a few other cosmetic changes. A sequel was reportedly planned starring Willy Beamish as a late teenager, but the project was canceled.

The game was re-released by Activision on March 2, 2017 on GOG.com with support for Microsoft Windows bundled with DOSBox.[1]

  1. ^ "Release: The Adventures of Willy Beamish". GOG.com. CD Projekt. 2 March 2017. Archived from the original on 27 March 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2019.