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Chuckie Egg 3: Henhouse Harry’s Easter Egg Hunt is an unofficial fan-made follow-up to the two 8-bit Chuckie Egg home computer games, that has been released for PC.
Chuckie Egg 3 has been developed by Langford Productions, on whose (unofficial) modern PC updates of the ZX Spectrum titles Manic Miner and Jetpac we have reported previously.
Langford Productions describes Chuckie Egg 3: Henhouse Harry’s Easter Egg Hunt as: moving “away from the ‘adventure’ style of Chuckie Egg 2,” “returning to the fast, arcade feel of the original classic.”
The plot of Chuckie Egg 3: Henhouse Harry’s Easter Egg Hunt is described as follows: “Easter time is approaching and Harry is committed to painting every last egg on the farm and shipping them off to market for a respectable return. The farm has other ideas. Across each level, unpainted eggs lie scattered everywhere — moody, hazardous things that will happily stun Harry if he so much as brushes past them. Armed with nothing but a paintbrush, he must dash around platforms and ladders, load up his brush, paint the eggs, grab them before they revert to dull, average eggs, and chuck them into the lorry for his next payday. But he’s not alone out there. Hens, chicks, sheep and Easter bunnies are all in a terrible mood and more than willing to cost Harry a life. And when Mother Hen finally shows up — still annoyed she didn’t get a role in the last sequel — she’s determined to make her presence felt. Paint the eggs, grab the eggs, deliver the eggs. and avoid everything that clucks, bleats or hops.”
Features of Chuckie Egg 3 include:
• Paint, collect and deliver eggs across increasingly chaotic levels
• More farmyard enemies than ever before
• Bonus items, power‑ups, power‑downs and the mysterious Easter basket
• Levels ranging from single‑screen layouts to sprawling 3×3 stages
• 10 scenes, 30 levels
• High score table
• Full keyboard and gamepad support
• Spectrum Mode with authentic Spectrum‑style graphics and beeper‑style sounds
• Optional scanlines for that proper retro feel
The original Chuckie Egg game was first released by A&F Software in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Dragon 32/64 home computers, before receiving ports to a number of other formats, spawning a sequel in 1985, and, more recently, the game Super Chuckie Egg for moble devices was released in 2017. And now, Chuckie Egg has returned with a new game in the vein of the original single-screen platformer, albeit unofficially. Chuckie Egg 3: Henhouse Harry’s Easter Egg Hunt is available now for PC, as a digital downlosd via itch.io, on a ‘name your own price’ basis.
