Find this really, really old game...

[Simon Charles]

Looking for a very old game, at least 20 years old. It ran on PC, it was a platformer, you were just a smiling ball with legs (and 1 strand of hair?) and you walked around on platforms and ladders collecting golden chickens. I don't remember it having enemies. I think you just had to collect all chickens before the time ran out.

[Simon Charles]

Shameless bump. Anyone? Can't find it.

[IwantMORE]

Sounds like Dizzy

[Ramen4ever]

Treasure Island Dizzy?
http://i43.tinypic.com/k1z5ow.gif
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island_Dizzy

[jimbob]

the ball looks a lot better than the rest of the game.

looks like a silly little platformer.

[IwantMORE]

I had Dizzy on a ZX Spectrum compilation. Never saw the point of the games, I guess it was designed for very small children.

But boy did the churn out a lot of them!!!

[Simon Charles]

Nope, that Dizzy thing looks way too recent. I'm talking very early days of DOS, with monochrome graphics and tinny speaker beeps. It ran on an old 286.

[IwantMORE]

Nope, that Dizzy thing looks way too recent. I'm talking very early days of DOS, with monochrome graphics and tinny speaker beeps. It ran on an old 286.

Dizzy was 1986 - 1992 which was the 286 era :dopefish:

How about Chuckie Egg... Oh the hours I spent on this game!

http://www.bagshot-row.org/chuckie-egg/retroremakes.html

[NutWrench]

Sure looks like Chuckie Egg. Especially the Amiga version, where the player is wearing a cap. The bill of the cap could seem like a strand of hair . . .

[Simon Charles]

This Chuckie Egg thing looks like it, but the levels are too big; there's only a few chickens on the platforms. This game had at least 30-50 chickens per map. They were everywhere, like pac-man dots. You could pick up tons just walking. Also there were no eggs and the chickens did not move. They were tiny golden roosters, small trophies, in a way. And you were just a little Smily ball with legs, not a human with a hat. The entire screen was tons and tons of platforms and ladders, with tiny chickens and a tiny you.

Chuckie Egg looks like the evolution of that game.

[IwantMORE]

Sounds like a home-brew/cover disc game.

[Simon Charles]

I guess. I've searched the web for every DOS game site and no one has it. Google and Youtube searches turn out nothing. :(

[IwantMORE]

Any idea where you got the game from?

[Simon Charles]

Any idea where you got the game from?

Can't remember at all, I was very young, maybe 6 or 7 so... 25 year ago. Had no clue who installed what on the computer.