Chuckie Egg

Chuckie Egg
Developer(s)A&F Software
Publisher(s)A&F Software
Pick & Choose
Designer(s)Nigel Alderton[1]
Platform(s)BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Dragon, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, MSX, Einstein, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Amiga, Atari ST, IBM PC
Release1983
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)1-4 players alternating turns

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.

The game was written by Nigel Alderton,[1] 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). Doug took on the simultaneous development of the BBC Micro version, whilst Mike Webb, an A&F employee, completed the Dragon port.

Levels are largely the same between versions, and all the 8-bit versions have been cited as classics.[2][1][3]

  1. ^ a b c Retro Gamer issue 37, May 2007
  2. ^ Your Sinclair magazine: January 1992, issue 73
  3. ^ Edge presents: Retro "The making of ..." special - Chuckie Egg (February 2003)