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a stinky ox 🐂

Surely even the most hard-boiled egg haters must have a soft spot for Chuckie Egg, one of the best 8-bit platformers on most systems.

TIL "Chuckie Egg" actually has another meaning, and is the name of an egg consumption mode where you have smashed up egg in a cup along with lashings of butter and bits of toast! Lovely! 🐔🥚🍞🐮

The cassette cover of the Spectrum version of Chuckie Egg. Even the Speccy version of this platformer was great. Unlike most other platformers of the day, which had stop-start gameplay necessitated by the inclusion of pixel-perfect jump requirements, Chuckie Egg had wonderfully sloppy controls which let the gameplay flow in a manner rarely seen until the advent of Super Mario Bros on the NES. You could dash around the levels fluidly and falls from any height wouldn't kill you, making the platformer a joy to play.
Chuckie Egg the egg consumption mode! Smashed up egg in a cup with lashings of butter, salt and pepper, and toast. Mmm eggy goodness!
DuvetGecko

@llamasoft_ox

Chucky egg was soft-boiled with soldiers when I was a kid, now I'm not sure if that was a regionalism or a mistake! 😆

a stinky ox 🐂

@DuvetGecko Probably a regionalism, some people seem to have heard of the name and not others (it wasn't a thing where I grew up) so perhaps unsurprising the presentation varied even where the name did occur. Egg in a cup seems the most common one though.

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DuvetGecko

@llamasoft_ox

I was wondering if it had come from "cuppy egg" or similar. I've moved from NE to SW england via Yorkshire, so I have picked up a bunch of random regionalisms over the years

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