A downloadable game for Windows

Help Olli find the ingredients to the magic potion and save Shilmoore Castle in this remake of a ZX Spectrum budget game.

Olli and Lissa was an attractive, if notoriously difficult Spectrum game, by Ionis Software International and released by Firebird in 1986. We've taken the game and given it a few tweaks to make it more forgiving and enjoyable, as well as a graphical uphaul that respects the original art.

You must traverse 8 screens, dodging ghosts and other creatures, to collect the items for the magic potion that Lissa is brewing up to make the ghost of Sir Humphrey invisible!

Original game by Ionis Software International. Roger Danison & Jerry Astley.

Remake programmed by Steve Watson, with graphics by Paul Weller.

Also available to download from Sunteam

More information
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorSpace-Time Games
GenrePlatformer

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Olli & Lissa.zip 21 MB

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Radio PARALAX66 days ago (1 edit)

Nice conversion! Our German-language review can be found in our recorded livestream starting at 02:02:25. English subtitles are also available. Subscription to our YouTube and Twitch channel is welcome. 🙂

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Space-Time Games66 days ago(+1)

Thank you! 😊

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dmacoco67 days ago

Nice game. I wonder what is your development environment and language. Good idea to adapt these prehistoric computer games

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Space-Time Games60 days ago

The game is coded with Clickteam Fusion 2.5.

Glad you liked the game(s) 😊

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Lee Bee70 days ago

Wonderful! An absolutely GORGEOUS remake. So beautiful, and I'm so glad you've kept the Beeper sound effects which give the game so much of its charm!

I don't know if you're planning to remake the 3rd game someday but I love that game too and always thought it needed some atmospheric "castle" music, so a few years ago I made some AY music for it just for fun (I'm a game musician). If you need any music in future feel free to give me a shout. I mostly do AY but I sometimes venture into "normal" music.

By the way I like the colour you chose for the sprites. That seems right. What are Olli & Lissa meant to be anyway? Human on the cover of the first game, dogs on the third, while the sprites look more like Mr Men or something! :D

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darkfalzx77 days ago

I loved the original Olli & Lissa on ZX Spectrum!

Thank you for making the game just a tiny bit less difficult, though not having to backtrack to the first screen after every item feels weird. I absolutely appreciate you getting rid of the evil time limit, making collision less random, getting rid of infuriating fall damage and making the game-over animation skippable!

Lots of effort went into music and backgrounds, some of the later ones are downright gorgeous.

The overall package is a bit weird though:

  • There is a huge number of lengthy company logos at the start. Please make them all easily skippable. In fact, please let the player skip all of them at once.
  • Please move the gameplay change warning screen to the tail end of the company logos and don't display it every time you start new game. If someone sucks at the game, this warning gets annoying really quick, especially since it requires an otherwise unused key to skip.
  • The main menu can only be navigated with numeric keys, and not in-game control buttons (up, down, jump).
  • There are no settings whatsoever. In case you might add some, here are my suggestions: switch between 16:9 and 4:3, switch between window and full screen (I know Alt-Enter does it, but still...), allow to use a bordered window (so I can move it to a different area of the screen), and most notably - please, PLEASE add a way to redefine keys!
  • Also - no DInput gamepad support, which is a huge bummer for anyone with a Dualshock controller.
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Space-Time Games76 days ago

Many thanks for your comments and suggestions(always appreciated) and for downloading and playing Olli & Lissa. Hopefully you'll enjoy whatever we end up making next! - Steve

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