Reviews

First of the Wally games but this isn’t an arcade adventure as such. Wally collects parts of a car placed on platforms in one room and takes them to be assembled in the other room. All this is against the time, and wheels and a moving computer try to thwart your progress. There are various models of car to build and the graphics are nice and large though suffer from the dreaded colour clash. Sound consists of a continuous version of the Laurel and Hardy theme tune which can be turned off if it gets annoying. A nice playable platformer but nothing at all like the later games.

1984 - Mikro Gen
by Chris Hinsley

The first game on the Wally Week series.

Wally Week is a mechanic, knowned by some as the manic mechanic.
He has 10 cars to build, each consisting of 6 parts.
Wally has to go to the the store where he gan get the car parts he needs and take them to the assembly
area to put them together.
The objects laying around have a life of their own so becareful not to be hit by any.

A simple game, that had a few interesting parts. I always prefered 'Turmoil', a game presented in the same year of 1984, and one of the reasons is that 'Turmoil' had way better control movements than 'Automania' which sometimes gets on the nerves.

Still, a great game.

The first Wally Week game coded in 1984 by Chris Hinsley has a different style from its sequels, a enjoyable arcade that takes place at workplace, a garage with two screens, the store and the assembly area.

You must build a car (10 in total) with six parts each. Collect every part from one screen and put it in the correct place in the other while avoiding moving wheels and other objects. A simple idea in a funny game with the usual good Wally graphics and a memorable tune.