Chuckie Egg 1983

Is it still worth playing?

A 1983 platformer written by Nigel Alderton, aged 16 or 17 at the time, first for the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro and Dragon 32 and 64 and later ported to many more computers. As Hen-House Harry, you collect the twelve eggs in each level before a countdown runs out. Piles of seed add points and stop the countdown for a while, but the hens that patrol the level eat them, pausing as they do. Touching a hen, or falling through a gap at the bottom, costs a life. Its levels are made of platforms, ladders and lifts that wrap from the top of the screen to the bottom, where hitting the top while on a lift also costs a life. Eight levels are played under a giant caged duck, then again without hens. A clock and patrolling hens, in a henhouse built of ladders and lifts, still make a good test today.