r/1980s • u/thearchivefactory • 17h ago
Video Games Let's go back to 1983 for a Classic!
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, inspired by arcade games including Space Panic\2]). 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