Mastodawn

Chuckie Egg, yeah, I _do_ remember it…

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/apr/21/in-my-mind-it-was-just-tall-birds-wandering-around-on-platforms-the-making-of-chuckie-egg

' "If you put a screenshot of Space Panic next to #ChuckieEgg they're embarrassingly similar," [Nigel Alderton] says. "The colours are identical. I nicked all the bits out of #SpacePanic that I liked as well as other platform and ladders #games." '

… but I remember Space Panic even clearer! One of the immediate hits on a boat trip to Stockholm. Along with the switch in the back of a #SpaceInvaders cabinet that gave infinite games.

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg

The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater Manchester

The Guardian

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg

Digger for the ZX81