Chicken Shift
Manufacturer: Bally Sente (Midway), 1984
Development staff:
Original concept and programming: Jon Kinsting
Screen graphics: Mark McPhee
Direction: Victor Penman
Music and sounds: Jeff Gusman, Richard Green, Gary Levenberg, Jesse
Osborne
Description:
An addictive puzzle game in which the object is to guide eggs
through a maze of egg-runs and guide them safely to the basket at
the bottom of the screen. There's also 2 more stages where you need
to guide hatchlings to a window sill from where they can fly off,
and where you need to bounce them up to nests in a coop to complete
the round.
This is achieved by switching red and blue pipes to face the left or
right-hand side at exactly the right moment. Players must manipulate
different pipes on both
halves of the screen at the same time, making for demanding and
rewarding gameplay. There's also at least 2 more types of stages
where you need to guide hatchlings along a platform with adjustable
slats to reach the floor and the window sill from where they'll shed
the shells completely and fly off. And a third where you need to
fill nests with chicks by flipping them up to the empty nests until
all are filled.
Video link: click
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