Chuckie Egg is an action platformer featuring a turn-based multiplayer mode. As Hen-House Harry, the player must collect the twelve eggs positioned in each level, before a countdown timer reaches zero. In addition there are piles of seed which may be collected to increase points and stop the countdown timer for a while. The player starts with five lives, and an extra life is awarded every 10,000 points.
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This was the first game I tested on my 4000 dollar gaming PC. Need to revisit it.
used to play this on my dads Atari. The game is kinda bad but it conjures some good memories.
Donkey Kong inspired platformer with eight levels that are unique enough and a progressive difficulty after that.
I couldn’t get on with Chuckie egg. The controls for climbing ladders is maddening. I was fighting the controls more than the chickens.
Pretty fun platformer, and controls incredibly well for a computer platformer. It's comparable to Montezuma's Revenge for the Atari 8-bit in how it controls and how good the jumping feels, but Chuckie Egg came out a year earlier than it! The actual gameplay mechanic is fun too, with having to collect the eggs and avoid the chickens, and eventually having the big caged chicken chase you after a certain amount of time. It weird to try and explain, but the jumping in this game is genuinely really impressive. Most games before it would have your character do a long slow lunge, but Chuckie Egg makes you perform more of a soft hop. It allows the player to be a bit more dexterous when controlling their character, and makes the game crazy fun! On top of that all, a random 16-year old into computers did this all. Chuckie Egg is definitely way more impressive than the bong rips I was showing off at 16 lmao.
3.5/5
3.5/5
Considerado um clássico do gênero, pelo menos no ZX Spectrum. Mas nem se isolado em sua plataforma eu concordo muito com isso – e considerando seus outros congêneres coevos, menos ainda. É certamente muito mais competente que Miner 2049er, e tem sua própria identidade principalmente graças ao comportamento, se não complexo, instigante dos inimigos. Mas... É isso.