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Chuckie Egg

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Game Information

Original Release Date: December 31, 1983

Platforms: Acorn Electron, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, Dragon 32/64, MSX, Tatung Einstein, ZX Spectrum

Involved Companies: Pick & Choose Ltd., A&F Software, A&F Software, Einsoft

Genres: Platform

Summary: Chuckie Egg is an action platformer featuring a turn-based multiplayer mode. As Hen-House Harry, the player must collect the twelve eggs positioned in each level, before a countdown timer reaches zero. In addition there are piles of seed which may be collected to increase points and stop the countdown timer for a while. The player starts with five lives, and an extra life is awarded every 10,000 points.

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This work is part of CSCI E-114, Web Application Development with Jamstack, Harvard Extension School. All video game data was obtained from The Internet Game Database (IGDB).