Chuckie Egg - Best Version

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
BBC Micro 7
ZX Spectrum 5
Atari 8-bit family 1
Tatung Einstein 1
Dragon 32/64 1
Commodore 64 0
MSX 0
Acorn Electron 0
Amstrad CPC 0
Commodore Amiga 0
Atari ST 0
IBM PC compatible 0
Mobile Phone0


JimD, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary

JimD, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:09 (eighteen years ago)

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

JimD, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:10 (eighteen years ago)

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

JimD, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:10 (eighteen years ago)

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

JimD, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

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

JimD, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:13 (eighteen years ago)

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

JimD, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:15 (eighteen years ago)

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

JimD, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

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

JimD, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:17 (eighteen years ago)

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

the pinefox, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

let me check that I have entered the poll.

the pinefox, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

You can play Chuckie Egg on a Mobile Phone??

the pinefox, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

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

ledge, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

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

ledge, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

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...

ledge, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

Noodle Vague, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

looks like the beeb vrsionm to me.

the next grozart, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Thomas, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

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

Ste, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

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

Ste, Thursday, 15 May 2008 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Thomas, Thursday, 15 May 2008 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

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.

JimD, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

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

JimD, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

btw

flamingo

ostrich!

ledge, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Chicken?

JimD, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

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

Thomas, Thursday, 15 May 2008 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

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!

melton mowbray, Thursday, 15 May 2008 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

He is - an egg farmer!

thangyouverymuch

ledge, Thursday, 15 May 2008 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

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

forksclovetofu, Thursday, 15 May 2008 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Raw Patrick, Thursday, 15 May 2008 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

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

JimD, Saturday, 17 May 2008 08:46 (eighteen years ago)

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".

snoball, Saturday, 17 May 2008 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

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

Porkpie, Saturday, 17 May 2008 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

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.

grimly fiendish, Sunday, 18 May 2008 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

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 !

Ste, Sunday, 18 May 2008 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

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!!!

snoball, Sunday, 18 May 2008 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

^^^ 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..

snoball, Sunday, 18 May 2008 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

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.

JimD, Monday, 19 May 2008 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

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>.

grimly fiendish, Monday, 19 May 2008 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

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!!".

JimD, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 08:14 (seventeen years ago)

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

JimD, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 10:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 21:14 (seventeen years ago)

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

ledge, Thursday, 22 May 2008 12:40 (seventeen years ago)

mods? i mean ems. emus.

ledge, Thursday, 22 May 2008 12:41 (seventeen years ago)

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

Thomas, Thursday, 22 May 2008 12:50 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Friday, 13 June 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

voted spectrum out of misguided loyalty

DG, Friday, 13 June 2008 23:33 (seventeen years ago)

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.

grimly fiendish, Friday, 13 June 2008 23:36 (seventeen years ago)

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

ILX System, Saturday, 14 June 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

ooooh

Ste, Sunday, 15 June 2008 01:58 (seventeen years ago)

yay!

snoball, Sunday, 15 June 2008 08:37 (seventeen years ago)

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

JimD, Sunday, 15 June 2008 09:27 (seventeen years ago)


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