CHUCKIE EGG - RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF ALL VERSIONS
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Chuckie Egg is a platform game released by A&F Software in 1983 initially for the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Dragon 32/64.
It was ported to the Commodore 64, Acorn Electron, MSX, Tatung Einstein, Amstrad CPC, and Atari 8-bit computers. It was later updated for the Amiga, Atari ST, and IBM PC compatibles. We are going to look at all these games plus more! Yes there is more.
Now the game was written by Nigel Alderton, then 16 or 17 years old. After a month or two of development, Nigel took a pre-release version of his Spectrum code to the two-year-old software company A&F, co-founded by Doug Anderson and Mike Fitzgerald (the "A" and "F", respectively).
Nigel's pre-release version was called Eggy Kong. It had one level and was very much based on Donkey Kong, except you ran around avoiding hens and collecting eggs. They were meant to be hens but they looked more like ostriches.
Doug took on the simultaneous development of the BBC Micro version, whilst Mike Webb, an A&F employee, completed the Dragon port.
The game eventually become Chuckie Egg. Developed in three months from a small one-level demo the game would eventually go on to every 8bit platform and become one of the most cherished titles of its generation - spawning several fan Web sites in the process.
Levels are largely the same between versions, and all the 8-bit versions have been cited as classics.
So come on. Let's have a look at all Chuckie Eggs games starting with the ZX Spectrum.