Chuckie Egg

Chuckie Egg is a 1983 platform game originally written by Nigel Alderton for the ZX Spectrum, and officially ported to many other home computers. It is frequently included in lists of the best games on several of these platforms, and is widely considered a classic.

Over the last two decades, several authors have released fan remakes.

ZX Spectrum (1983)

The Spectrum original was written by 16-year-old Nigel Alderton, a Saturday employee of the Micro-Link computer shop in Gorton, Manchester, which was also the headquarters of A&F Software. Alderton started working on the game at home, but after showing an early version to his coworkers, A&F paid him for the right to first refusal of the finished game.

BBC Micro (1983)

As Alderton developed the game, A&F's Doug Anderson worked in-house on the BBC Micro port in parallel.

Dragon 32 (1983)

The Dragon version was developed in-house by A&F's Mike Webb.