THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE



CHUCKIE EGG II (CHOCKY EGG)



PUBLISHER

A'n'F Software



AUTHOR

Unknown, but not the same author as the original Chuckie Egg.



YEAR

1984/5



CATEGORY

Platform style arcade adventure



DESCRIPTION

A large, fast and colourful platform game, the follow up to the

extremely successful Chuckie Egg by the same publishers.



CONTROLS

Definable keys, Kempston and Sinclair Joystick



INSTRUCTIONS

Hen House Harry, fresh from his escapades with the chickens, now

has a new task. He must enter an Easter Egg factory and create

chocolate eggs for the kids. However, this isn't as easy as it

sounds as the factory has been invaded by nasties, all the

machinery has been turned off, and the ingredients for the eggs

are scattered all over the place! Harry must collect milk, cocoa,

sugar and other such foodstuffs and put them into the correct

parts of the egg machines, which must then be activated! Numerous

objects can be found in the factory that will help Harry in his

quest. Harry can pick up and carry only one item at a time,

although there are ways around this! 



INLAY CARD TEXT





CHEATS

Use the multiface to add POKE 35453,0 for infinite lives.



SEQUELS/PREQUELS

Chuckie Egg, the original, is one of the most famous Spectrum

games ever.



SCORES RECEIVED





URL

ftp.dcc.uchile.cl:/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/c/chuck2.zip





GENERAL FACTS

This game was subtitled 'Chocky Egg' and released at Easter time!

Oddly enough, this was one of the first arcade games ever to

feature a save game option. You could save the game to tape at

any time and reload at a later date. It was also possible to save

the high score table to tape.  The main difference between the

two games is that Chuckie Egg was based on a single screen and

you had to collect all of the objects to advance.  In Chuckie Egg

II the emphasis was more on exploring the factory at your leisure

and solving puzzles.  The graphics are generally more varied than

the original Chuckie Egg, although the graphic for Hen House

Harry is different to that of the first game. 





NOTES

When you produce the follow up to one of the best ever Speccy

games, you can never hope to reproduce the original's appeal

(apart from maybe Manic Miner / Jetset Willy). Chuckie Egg II is

a great game, but not half as good as the original. It's less of

an arcade game and more of an adventure, it's very hard, it's

MUCH bigger, but it's just not as fun.















































