chuckie egg and the physics thereof

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(inspired by I defy you to name a videogame more viscerally unappealling than Bulletproof)

reading the wikipedia link while bored at work, i discovered this:


The versions fall broadly into two groups - those with realistic physics (e.g. the BBC Micro and Amstrad CPC versions) and those without (e.g. the ZX Spectrum version). Although there is a substantial difference in play between the two, levels remain largely the same and all the 8-bit versions have been accepted as classics.

er, you WOT? i don't remember there being any massive differences between the BBC and spectrum versions - and i played both a lot. indeed, i've played them recently on emulators too. nor, to be honest, do i remember the "physics" being particularly realistic or unrealistic. it was just kinda standard jumping about, wasn't it? you could bounce off the sides of the screen; falling off the bottom killed you; er, that's all.

or am i missing something?

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:08 (twenty years ago)

bollocks, i've fucked the HTML tags, haven't i?

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

No, I remember being unable to play the BBC version because I'd learned on the Speccy one - you could do things like completely change direction in the air once you'd started your jump on the 'unrealistic' ones.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.chuckie-egg.org/

Emulators and ROMs and stuff here. Not sure if it all works or not.

Chuckie Egg on the BBC Micro was what I learned when I should have been learning machine code.

Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:50 (twenty years ago)

you could do things like completely change direction in the air once you'd started your jump on the 'unrealistic' ones

fuck. really? gaah. maybe i knew this.

or maybe i didn't, and would have been THE CHUCKIE EGG MEISTER if i had.

from what i remember, my best-ever effort was level 4 with both the hens and the duck. but that was kinda flukey.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:08 (twenty years ago)

"flukey" = the catch all response whenever yr friend does better than you on a Spectrum game.

I love Chuckie Egg. One of those perfect games that's always fun.

Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Right I've played 'em now. The difference in the physics is that in the spectrum one he jumps like the top two sides of a triangle, in the BBC one he jumps like a semi-circle. It makes fuck all difference to gameplay and I would never have noticed if it wasn't pointed out.

You can't turn in the air in either of those versions.

Also, it's fucking great. Not enuff ducks (geese?) in games these days.

Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)


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