Kokotoni Wilf

Remake as kokotoni milf might be quite nice

I've played it till the very end Very easy interface with great story and beautiful landscapes puts this game on top of the list of platform genre

This Thrust-meets-Manic Miner escapade is a decent arcade-adventure with a nice atmosphere. The controls need a bit getting used to, and it can get a bit tricky, but not as much to get in the way of the game. Recommended.

Wtf is a wilf ? As a kid I hated the name. I mean really, really hated the name of this game.

The odd spread of votes for this game says it all: love it or hate it, the CONTROLS of Kokotoni Wilf are a FEATURE (wanted or not, remains unknown). You must try to play this game for at least half an hour or two to form an honest opinion.

Some interesting comments here. The visuals are ZX Spectrum. It is basically a port with no consideration for C64 owners. I owned this on the ZX Spectrum way before I owned a C64. I remember the game at the time being A. About the competition and B. The next logical step (an attempt at a graphical leap forward) to push thing further away from the blocky Jet Set Willy model and to be honest I was as disappointed as the next player. It failed miserably at attempting to steal Jet Set Willy
s drown. Prior to the games release the was an article in Crash, and the whole time travel concept sounded too good to miss. Lol!

I got quite good at the game, but never good enough. Using infinite lives Poke I completed the game. On complete the game (the ZX Spectrum version) the game either looped round to the first level, or reset to the title screen. So there either was no message to send off to Elite, or the Poke affect the ending ?

Got all the way through this a couple of days ago. Granted, not the best looking game and the slowdowns are rather odd. However, the controls (which so many seem to dislike) are intriguing and once you get hold of the acceleration it becomes second nature. The game grew on me from beginning to end, and when I finally beat it after some hours of practice it felt really, really good. Like I had achieved something.

Surprisingly playable after you get a hang of the controls. Still it's not that special but it's a decent game if you give it a chance.

The problem with the C-64 version of Kokotoni Wilf is that the main sprite is moving very strange making it very difficult to control the hero properly. A big downgrade I am afraid. The Spectrum version plays definitely much better and does not have monochrome graphics as mention before. It is full color, at least the same as C-64 version.

This was a great game in its day and the Spectrum version had a awful sound and terrible monochrome GFX don't listen to the haters. Was a hard game though and I gave up playing once I got to modern England it got too difficult after that. I think that was after a sunken pirate ship? The locations in this were what made it special, travelling through time. But I remember the controls and collisions being a bit finicky.

This game is very poorly done in C64. Bad controls, ugly graphics, poor sounds... I love the spectrum one, it has all this version lacks, and it's a fun game! Really was so hard to make a good conversion of the spectrum of this game? That lazy or clumsy who made this!

I liked this one, though it's no Moonfall. I guess if it was easier to control the guy it'd be too easy to finish. Basically if you could play H. E. R. O. You could play this. The map made it for me, with a lot of thought going into the background graphics and layout.
Certainly worth a bash on VICE.

Great game! Surprised its scored so low on here... Was great fun flying around different eras... Was quite tricky but definately one of the better games at the time...

I loved this game due to the thought of travelling through different eras and eventually ending up in the future. I thought there was a really eerie atmosphere in this game and it had me desperate to see what was next. Great little game.

I can play this loads on the Speccy, a classic on that machine, but the C64 version is dire in comparison. To be fair I didn't play this version until the 21st Century, but even so, I think I would have been disappointed at the time and am glad I never got it then either.

Looks and sounds terrible but give it a chance. Addictive Gameplay in an old-fashioned stylee. This is what games used to be like, before flashy Graphics got in the way!

LOL! This game looks like absolute shite, but is actually rather fun to play. I played it for AGES but never managed to finish it. Maybe time to have another bash at it?Damned annoying when you died at a certain point, only to be restarted right on top of (or in the path of) a nasty with no time to move out of the way, thus losing all your lives in one go! Grrrrrrr! But apart from that it was great.

First game I ever finish. I remember next day I finished Manic Miner, but Kokotoni was my first!!

Memories. When I got my C64 in 1987 this was the first ever game I loaded. I could have picked any of the games I got with it (Commando, Rambo, Bubble Bobble) - but for some reason I picked this.

And it was s***e.

Pony and did not run at a constant speed.

I thought warrens comments were spot on (although I never actually got as far as dreaming about this game!). I got it as part of the SoftAid compilation if anyone remembers that.

The game is dated compared to the later 64 stuff and there are a few anoying bugs - a certain screen on the ship level (1700's?) and a seagul comes to mind where you could easily lose several lives as it restarted with you in the 'wrong' place! Despite it's drawbacks you did somehow get the feeling your were exploring and going on a dangerous but fantastical journey and you really wanted to keep going. Unfortunately in the day I could only get to the 80's but I played it many, many times hoping to do better.

I recently had a quick replay via an emulator and it was scary how well I'd remembered all the levels. Also I understand what Jase
meant by that death jingle (looped in the case of that damn seagull)

This was a fantastic little game! So simple and so charming. There were lots of cute touches, like the same little figure of Nelson being used at Trafalgar Square and at the Battle of Trafalgar, and a Manic Miner tribute in the little bowler-hatted commuters on the London Underground. I liked the flying/steering controls too. What were the time zones? Prehistoric, Medieval, Battle of Trafalgar, Contemporary London, and Futuristic?

As the others I bought this for the competition, and played it with my mate Richard until non-stop it was complete one weekend. Still didn't win the bleeding prize though. I doubt anyone did!!

Remains one of my favourite games! I managed to complete this once or twice, but it was ever so difficult. Particularly the very last obstacle. To get all the way through the five time zones (without losing a life), just to be repeatedly killed after all that hard work was sooo infuriating.

The control machnism/flying was an artform to me, it became an extension of your arm using the keyboard (i couldn't play this game at all with a joystick), the trick is to be able to get wilf to hover with gentle up-left and up-right movements by tapping the keys rhythmically. The music adds to the whole beauty of this game "Consider yourself, part of the fam-i-ly ... ". I haven't played or seen this game since perhaps 1988, but I can still hear the jingle that was played when you died, so it clearly had a powerful effect

Give it a go, it rocks!

I myself, like Craig bought it for the competition (Even though it was out in the states long before here!) and I am very glad I did, it took a bit of time to get to grips with, but still remains my all time favourite game. Stick with it, you'll be glad you did!

This game had me spellbound as a kid (to the point where I was having dreams about discovering the next time zones). The feeling of traveling through the history of earth and discovering strange people rolling barrels through tunnels under castles in ancient times (or say, witches brewing potions in laboratories) was enchanting and thought provoking.
It bacame a childhood mission to complete this game, and when I finally did so, I was in bliss for a week or more!
-the tune from "oliver twist" really enhances that "historic" feel.
(any other fans, feel free to mail)

When a game has a gimic like a competition attached to it - you know the game is going to be bad - I never found out who won - I never really cared - I bought this game as a mistake - I have redemed myself by not downloading it