Chuckie Egg II

My favourite Speccy game!

After playing the Atari ST version of Jet Set Willy, I remembered that we had another 8-bit platformer by Lothlorien called Chuckie Egg 2. This made me happy because I love the original, and I even spent hundreds (thousands?!) of hours exploring and mapping its immense and wacky world that was fascinating.

Let's cut to the chase - the Atari ST conversion is awful. It looks/sounds better, but the gameplay is completely different - it doesn't feel anything like the original whatsoever. In fact, the controls are diabolical, so guiding Harry around is nigh on impossible. His movements are way too fast, and they have altered the basic mechanics of jumping. You know, I expected some differences, but this is a joke beyond anything I imagined.

This is a complete disaster of a game! It’s a terrible port of a brilliant ZX Spectrum platformer. Terrible” is the right word because it’s probably the worst platformer for the Atari ST. I hate that because it’s a port of one of my favourite 8-bit platformers!! I'm not sure if you can tell? But, yes, I'm disgusted by this game. 😡

It's not recommended but, if you're stupid and wanna play this, then the floppies can be found at Atari Legend. A hard drive installable game is at 8BitChip. Surely, you're not going to bother?