Pyjamarama

Pyjamarama is an arcade adventure set across several interconnecting rooms. The player takes the role of Wally, who has gone to bed for the night and has to wake up early in the morning for work. Unfortunately, his alarm clock has not been wound, and thus he will sleep late in the morning, and his boss will fire him. However, in his sleep, Wally's consciousness travels around his home, and other places, wearing his pyjamas, in search for the key to rewind the alarm clock and wake himself up.

Released: 1984
Platforms: Amstrad CPC Commodore 64 Commodore C64/128/MAX ZX Spectrum
Genres: Action-adventure Platformer Puzzle
Developers: —
Publishers: Mikro-Gen
Series: Wally
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

About

Pyjamarama is a video game for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and the Commodore 64. It features Wally Week as the central character and is the second (after Automania) of a series of games featuring Wally and/or members of his family. It was published by Mikro-Gen (through Amsoft for the Amstrad version). Starting in July 1986, Your Sinclair magazine published a monthly comic strip based on the character.

There are two different versions of the game. The original plays the song "Popcorn", the second release plays an original tune.

Keywords

action-adventure
moving platforms

Media

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Gameplay

Pyjamarama is an action-adventure game set across several interconnecting rooms. The player takes the role of Wally, who has gone to bed for the night and has to wake up early in the morning for work. Unfortunately, his alarm clock has not been wound, and thus he will sleep late in the morning, and his boss will fire him. However, in his sleep, Wally's consciousness travels around his home, and other places, wearing his pyjamas, in search for the key to rewind the alarm clock and wake himself up.

The game is made up of static single-screen rooms, each of which can include platforms in various arrangements, objects to pick up, and enemies to avoid. Wally can walk through the screens to progress through the game's map and to pick up objects. Wally can carry two items in a first in, first out arrangement. Contact with an enemy drains Wally's "snooze energy", and if it runs out, Wally loses one of his lives.

Reception

The ZX Spectrum version of Pyjamarama received the Game of the Month award in the November 1984 issue of Personal Computer Games, beating the BBC Micro version of Elite to the title.