Chuckie Egg II

My favourite Speccy game!

After playing the Atari ST version of Jet Set Willy, I remembered that we had Chuckie Egg II by Lothlorien. This made me happy because I love the original, and I even spent hundreds (thousands?!) of hours exploring and mapping its immensely wacky world. It was a uniquely fascinating and surreal place to explore.

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

This game is a complete disaster! It’s a terrible port of a brilliant ZX Spectrum platformer. Terrible is the word, because it's shocking to think they thought this was fit for release. I hate saying this because it’s a port of my favourite 8-bit platformer!! Perhaps it's hard to tell, but, yes, I'm disgusted by this game. 😡

Personally, this is the worst game ever released for the Atari ST. #gutted

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

I know, let's add a brick wall then Harry will blend in well... Arghhh!!

The first screen is the one most people probably won't beat. Terrible controls.

Thankfully, Hatari can save memory snapshots - I saved many times.

Wow, the graphics aren't exactly enhanced anymore...

...how odd. Everything looks almost like the Spectrum game.

However, they added/changed a few things (for the worse).

I never beat this room, as the controls are so terrible.

I could have improved with more practice, but I simply didn’t want to continue.