Lazy Jones

The main screen in Lazy Jones is the hotel interior. There, the character can use the elevator to travel freely between the three floors, but he must watch out for enemies: the current hotel manager on the top floor, the ghost of the previous manager on the bottom floor, and a haunted cleaning cart on the middle floor. The enemies only walk around and do not pursue the character, but contact with them is fatal.

Each floor has six rooms, three on each side of the elevator. Each room can be entered once. Inside most rooms is a video game, which the character immediately begins playing. As well as the video games, there is the hotel bar, a bed, a cleaning closet and a toilet. The bar works like a video game, but the other rooms are useless decorations (intentionally added, because Whittaker had run out of ideas for new games).

Whittaker developed each sub-game individually in BASIC first, to make sure they worked, then converted each one of them, almost line by line, into assembly code.

The music track Star Dust was sampled by German electro project Zombie Nation for their 1999 single Kernkraft 400. Florian Senfter ("Splank!") later paid an undisclosed sum to David Whittaker for the use of the melody. Similarities have been noted between Star Dust and the song It Happened Then by Electronic Ensemble, but Electronic Ensemble creator Peter Baker has expressed uncertainty as to whether the similarity was coincidental or due to direct sampling.