Chuckie Egg - Best Version

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary

http://ekranownia.atari8.info/grafika/ekrany/gry/c/chuckie_egg_2.png

http://www.fluffhouse.org.uk/lynnette/stuff/chuckie_egg_02.gif

http://www.retro-games.co.uk/misc/dragon32/ChuckieEgg.gif

http://www.konamito.com/games/images/capturas/chuckie_egg_0001.gif

http://www.mobilegamefaqs.com/revimgs_2/c/cegg_sml.gif

http://www.elitebastards.com/layden/atoz/chuckegg1_tn.PNG

http://www.vazcomics.org/mamend/gamend/endless/chuckieamg.png

Most of those screens, save the last one, look less sophisticated than the addictive Spectrum game that I remember!

let me check that I have entered the poll.

You can play Chuckie Egg on a Mobile Phone??

Your memory is playing tricks, the first one is the speccy version!

actually i think i'm wrong there. but it doesn't seem to be any other the others...

http://www.tzxvault.org/Spectrum/Screens/ChuckieEgg.png

has the tell-tale attribute clash but the font isn't the standard speccy font. maybe they rolled their own. thought i had an emulator and all the games on this machine but can't track it down...

That is the Speccy version, you can play it online here:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000958

looks like the beeb vrsionm to me.

the mobile version is terrible by the way.

I still often play the PC remake http://vroomfondel.net/chuckie/ - its based the (indisputably best) BBC version but differs very occasionally and very subtly in some of the flamingo patterns. Which is a little frustrating cos it makes you go the long way round on level 7 and makes level 28 harder than it should be.

Umm yes I have got a little obsessed with this game in the past. voted it second only to SMB3 in Dom's poll.

jesus how did my works internet just let me get onto world of spectrum. cool

i never played this game, even when i was die hard speccy owner, for one reason - it would never load !

Ste please play the BBC version rather than the speccy if you get chance though.

The speccy version is a.n.other fun 8-bit platform game.

The BBC versh is a sublime work of art - something to do with the rudimentary "physics" I guess, but its so fluid. always about finding the best lines and flow.

Except that the Dragon 32 version has even subtler physics than the BBC version (there's something in the way the farmer bounces off the sides of the screen which feels really plump, somehow), and is therefore better. :)

Anyway, thread inspired by the fact I now have a fully operational Dragon 32 emulator on my DS, and can play portable Chuckie Egg. I probably don't need to buy another game now for the rest of my life.

That Amiga screen is just weird though. The farmer is an egg! The ducks are turkeys!

btw

flamingo

ostrich!

Chicken?

:-) never occured to me that they could be anything other than flamingos. Flamingos are cyan right?

I think I've only ever played the BBC one, though loved it so much I should really have played the ST one. Is that it upthread, or is that Amiga? It looks immense. Why is Chuckie an egg? I thought he was a farmer!

He is - an egg farmer!

thangyouverymuch

I'm correct in saying that 'murricans never got this, eh? Looks like burgertime.

ZX Spectrum followed by Beeb. Mainly coz I owned a Spectrum.

I voted this number two in Dom's poll as well. Or maybe number three.

This was meant to be my number 2 in the poll but I forgot to vote! :(

The BBC versh is a sublime work of art - something to do with the rudimentary "physics" I guess, but its so fluid. always about finding the best lines and flow.

BBC Micro, with Spectrum version second. The Beeb version has that Magic Mushrooms-like quality. It's partly the physics, and it's always changing up the chicken movement patterns so it takes more skill than simply memorising the level layouts. Speccy version is much more "stop and wait".

Tatung Einstein, all the way. Yes, my dad bougt one - I told him to get an Amstrad, but would he listen?

i have to say, i never really twigged that there was a "physics" difference between versions of the game, but i guess that's because the speccy version was the only one i played properly as a kid -- the BBC one was an occasional guilty pleasure in the school computer lab, and i never had time to get to grips properly with it. i was always very jealous of the better sound and those lovely s t r e t c h y mode-2 graphics :/

anyway. spectrum, followed by BBC. i wish i'd nominated/voted on the games poll, because this would have been way the fuck up there on my list. it became an obsession in my family, actually; my mum was quite the addict. i put fuse on her iMac last year just so she could play it again; cue several days of phonecalls along the lines of "how do i do level seven again?" ... "i've done level eight!" ... "how do i get away from that bastard bird?" (yes, she put it like that.)

how far did everyone get? i managed -- once -- to get round to (counts up) ... level 17, i guess -- maybe even 18 -- but that was a bit of a fluke.

also: chuckie egg 2, anyone? no, thought not. fascinating for a bit but way too long and not really worth the effort.

interview with nigel alderton - quite interesting. didn't realise it wasn't finished.

nice game.

but i ended up, after downloading the bbc emulator torrent + games, spending all afternoon writing silly BASIC games and reliving my computer studies days.

lulz !

BBC Computer 32K
Acorn DFS
BASIC
>10P."STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! ";

>20GOTO10

>RUN

STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! STE IS A RAD DUDE!!! 

^^^ bugger, that didn't come out right...

the BBC one was an occasional guilty pleasure in the school computer lab

This is how I'm convinced of the greatness of the Beeb version - all the cool kids who thought computers were for geeks/nerds (this was mid 80's) would play this game in the lab incessantly despite ignoring other classics like Thrust, Citadel, blah blah blah, etc..

Ha, I feel like I should've added a "YOU CAN'T VOTE UNLESS YOU'VE PLAYED AT LEAST FOUR OF THEM!" proviso to this poll. End results are no doubt going to just reflect which was most popular, rather than which was best.

in fairness: every emulator i've ever downloaded has been christened with chuckie egg. so although i never played the C64 or atari versions on an original C64 or atari box, i'm reasonably au fait with them </feeble justification>.

Well, I only really played three of them (Beeb, Dragon and Speccy), so I'd have disqualified myself too.

I guess there's more than just the "physics" to separate them though. The fact these machines all had different screen resolutions means that there are differences in platform length or spacing between them all. Some of those other screens up there look only vaguely like the levels I remember, because of this.

Anyway, fond Chuckie Egg memory: being 8, and getting the bus to Oldham with my dad to go shopping. Dad saying I could get a new game for my (still very new) Dragon. Going into Boots, and choosing Chuckie Egg (without having heard of it or anything...I just fancied it, for some reason). Getting on the bus to go home, sitting upstairs at the front, and unwrapping the celophane so I could get the instructions out of the tape box and read them. Saying to dad "hmm, I wonder what music it's got in it". Dad saying "I bet it plays 'chick chick chick chick chicken, lay a little egg for me'". Me thinking about this for a minute or two, then saying "no, I bet it has The Birdie Song in it". Getting home. Loading it up. "DAD! DAD! I WAS RIGHT, IT'S THE BIRDY SONG!!".

Man, what's with that birdy/birdie inconsistency? In the space of 15 words, ffs!

fuck me, this poll doesn't close for a while, does it?

Time for people to d/l mods and play all versions.

mods? i mean ems. emus.

surely should be flamingoes not emus? I'm sticking to my guns here!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

voted spectrum out of misguided loyalty

i've just been posting links to this on facebook ... seeing this thread pop back up made me think, hmm, i reckon a few of you might enjoy it, too.

apologies if you've seen it already.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ooooh

yay!

Wow, I'd totally forgotten about this. Also, you're all wrong!