Miner Willy is the protagonist in a series of platform games for the ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64 home computers. The first two games - Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy were written by Matthew Smith during the early 1980s.
The Willy saga was to be a trilogy and a third game in the series was planned, Miner Willy Meets The Taxman.
The series started in 1983 with the release of Manic Miner, and was followed up a year later with Jet Set Willy and Jet Set Willy II. Another game in the series, The Perils of Willy, was released solely for the VIC-20. Andre's Night Off was published as a type-in listing in the June 1984 issue of Computer & Video Games. In addition, quite a few unofficial sequels, remakes, homages and updates have been released.
==Games in the series==<!-- Links in list restored; while it's generally not considered good style to have duplicate links close together within an article proper, in this case the list is instinctively where one's eye is drawn to find the main articles. -->
- Manic Miner (1983), Bug-Byte / Software Projects
- Jet Set Willy (1984), Software Projects
- The Perils of Willy (1984), Software Projects
- Andre's Night Off (1984), Matthew Smith
- Jet Set Willy II (1985), Software Projects