Chuckie Egg is a platform game born on early-80s British home computers, where the farmer Hen-House Harry must collect eggs on platforms while dodging hens and other obstacles, against a timer that keeps tightening. Its arcade version transfers that direct formula, already popular in the UK, to the arcade format. It's a key piece of British 8-bit video game history, and its move to arcades documents how some home hits sought a second life in coin-op halls.
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