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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:25 pm

also..is that the bird from pigeon street.....

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:38 pm

Chortle

The mysterious lady, JG, is none other than the witch from the BBC computer game, Granny's Garden.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:48 pm

jesus....used to finish my work faster to get a bash on the old bbc....remember a game to do with ducks, ducklings..erm unsure

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:53 pm

ducklings dilemma....sure it was kalled that

JG · Post by JG » Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:14 pm

Yeeehhaaaaw! I thought so.

Curses. I could have made myself look very clever by actually naming the game of Granny's Garden before yourself. Instead I decided to keep scthuschshuscum, a little voice telling me that it was probably something out of Star Wars and I'd be making myself look stupid by mentioning Granny's Garden at all.

Yes there were three 5.25" discs or levels or spaceships or apples and if we were good, the teacher would let us play Granny's Garden. I never got to level 3. I think that disc was missing or I just wasn't clever enough or we always had PE before I could get to level 3.

I'm so glad we got that out in the open. It had be bothering me ever so slightly.

JG · Post by JG » Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:24 pm

The only duckling, chick, bird game I can remember is Chuckie Egg.

There are BBC Micro humulators out there. Unfortunately the people who made Granny's Garden (Empire) are not allowing emulation of their game for some sort of reason and legally there's nuffink no one can do about that. As a law abiding person, I have not tried to (unsuccessssfully) search elsewhere for the game.

There were some children. And apples. And stuff.

Other games that I remember on the old BBC Micro were

i) Mr. E - As an 8 year old, the blatant methoblahblahmextrodextraobloopamphetamine (MDbloopMA) reference was lost on me. A clone of some sort of conventional game. I thought it was very colourful and very playable. Used to cause tachycardia and induce a 'high'.

ii) Collosus Chess - A brilliant comedown from Mr. E. The Persian answer to benzodiazepines. For the time an amazingly strong chess alogorithm thingymy.

iii) Citadel - Something to do with that a chicken. Take it to an oven. Over the drawbridge. A bit like Spellbound, but it used to say 'Citadel' in a very computersied voice.

iv) Frak - yeah, this one was ok.

v) Galaxians - Quality.

vi) Hunchback

vii) A mouse game where you had to drop plates and jump over things, a bit tedious at times but very playable.

viii) I can't remember any more. Oh yeah, Elite, but that was never my bag. Thargoid.

ix) Bloop

Drpepper · Post by **Drpepper** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:25 am

Don't forget the football manager game, where you didn't get to make transfers or anything, just watch some stickmen sort of float around a screen chasing a square

trayhop123 · Post by **trayhop123** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:29 am

there was also a good motorbike game for it, a bit like kickstart, reddy steddy eddy or something ???????

aaamusements.co.uk · Post by **aaamusements.co.uk** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:29 am

ross08 wrote:I've been successfully operating unlicensed for 12 years... Nobody's going to make me get licensed now.

(Just to clarify that was nothing to do with BBC games. Sorry to digress.)

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:08 am

If anyone wants Granny's Garden on their PC, send me a PM with your email address. I'll send you the files and instructions.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:56 am

yeah good point, and the fact he added me to msn and shew me a pic of his dick

Heh-heh!!

Taming of the shew...

BBC games? Hmm, Eddie Kidd, is that the 'Kickstart-esque' game you were thinking of? We played that on the emulator in the office last Christmas, on a 'revisit' to the good old days!

trayhop123 · Post by **trayhop123** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:58 am

i think it must have been , there were only 3 keys , acc , dec , and jump, it featured no scroling just flip screen left to right

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:54 pm

bbc is the one where u had to click ctrl + esc to load...or am i in a purple haze

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:36 am

what a fuckin fat munt

Don't care who it relates to, but that's well funny!

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:45 am

miester vinyl wrote :can you please only post fruitmachine related banter in the general section..............fuckin classic