The giant duck is free! It floats over the
platforms, homing in on our hero who has
cunningly attempted to disguise himself as a
ladder, painting it with the yellow hue of his
own body via the Spectrum’s unavoidable colour
clash feature. The duck is unlikely to be fooled.CLASSIC BOSS
G
aining wide exposure thanks
to being one of a limited
selection of decent games
for the BBC Micro, which
was installed in almost every school
computer room in the eighties,
versions of Chuckie Egg appeared on a
vast array of 8-bit formats.
While some versions were somewhat
nicer to play than others, the basic
gameplay remained the same. You
travel through eight levels of platforms
and ladders, avoiding hens and
collecting eggs. When you reach the
end, you start again except with a giant
duck chasing you, and every additional
time you beat it, more and more hens
are added. It shifted over a million
copies.Developer A&F Software
Publisher A&F Software
Genre Platformer
Released 1983