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.