20 Games That Defined the Acorn Electron / BBC Micro

20 Games That Defined the Acorn Electron / BBC Micro
1983 Starship Command (Acornsoft)
1983 Chuckie Egg (A&F)
1984 Elite (Acornsoft)
1984 Podd (Acornsoft/ASK)
1984 Overdrive (Superior)
1984 Labyrinth (Acornsoft)
1984 Football Manager (Addictive)
1984 Revs (Acornsoft)
1985 Repton (Superior)
1985 Casle Quest (MicroPower)
1985 Citadel (Superior)
1986 Repton 2 (Superiour)
1986 Thrust (Acornsoft)
1985 The Way of the Exploding Fist (Beam)
1986 Repton 3 (Superior)
1986 Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Imagine/Konami)
1986 Stryker's Run (Superior)
1986 Ravenskull (Superior)
1988 Exile (Superior)
1989 Camelot (Superior)
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[@saitamabeach2200]

Hunky Dory, Defender, Frak!...many happy memories!

[@gmooney]

ARGGGHHH!!!! REPTON!!!! I've been trying to remember the name of that game for ever!!!!

[@terryloxton6939]

Great memories! Really enjoyed these games! Particulaly Repton and Revs! Also, of course using bbc basic to write games from a book

[@matthewdrake9699]

Repton was the game changer for me

[@moisturisedgnome1181]

I have never met anyone in real life who knows or appreciates Repton.

[@jam99]

I will never stop praising the programmers of a lot of these early games. They were amazing guys to cram so much in to so little resource. Who needs gigabytes of memory for decent playability!? I used to play a game that I think was called 'Roboty' but it probably had another name. It was the best game of mayhem I remember. It was obviously ported from something else but it stood out as being different.

[@leecotterill3046]

Starship Command...i was hooked!

[@HovisSteve]

Anyone remember the _Play It Again Sam_ compilation releases?

[@stuartsinclair6269]

Elite, that game started what we see and play on today’s consoles. Break Shift for the disc drive I think😮

[@DJCW_]

oh my god this takes me back, i need to get 1 of these.

[@kwc1138]

All the Repton's were very good.

[@michaeljtopley]

Haha great stuff. Takes me back to being a kid again.

[@rhynouk1]

I also remember Smash & Grab, Frenzy, Creepy Cave & Snapper. Good times.

[@DavidOakesMusic]

I had several of those. Played Repton to death.

[@danjclark1975]

Brings back such good memories :)

[@WeeStevieB]

Good vid :) Ahh, memories....

[@derekthesec]

Liked Chuckie Egg on Acorn Electron and BBC Computer

[@derekthesec]

Liked playing Football Manager, Overdrive and Chuckie Egg.

[@papalaz4444244]

Defender was the best home version of Defender I ever saw

[@robbieweston5439]

I played all those to death on my bbc acorn I was 5 when I had this now 40 and I don’t have it anymore shame 😢I miss it

[@davidkennedy1077]

I loved Strykers Run on the Electron. I was amazed to find out this was an early Chris Roberts game, the same Chris Roberts that is currently trying to squeeze every last penny out of backers for his Star Citizen game. Hes (conned) raised $210+ million over 6 years and the game is still an unplayable mess of a tech demo haha!!!

[@ayudatengopiedrasenlosrino3786]

Qi

[@AlphaLab1]

Great selection.. only a couple i didnt play.. but the rest, very fond memories! Back in the day I quite liked The Last Ninja, Commando & Imogen :)

[@frishnit]

Happy days!

[@stevemanser.]

Awesome stuff. I owned all the originals of these, apart from Revs, Podd and Camelot (not heard of the last 2). Happy days and several of those surely still stand up today. I've got Repton on my Android in fact. Not too sure on 1984's Football Manager though, hah. Gonna dust down the ELK and give some of these a bash again. I'm pretty lucky that I can: a) play the originals on the Electron using the original tapes b) play the originals on the Electron using an SD card and ROMs c) play the ROMS via emulation on our PC d) don't bother - is something I'm gonna avoid. Thanks for the reminders. : )

[@SevenDeMagnus]

Cool

[@stumbling]

I can't believe I didn't have Elite as a kid. I hadn't even heard of it until about ten years ago. I think I would still be playing it to this day! Imogen was one of my favourite games for the BBC Micro. We had that and Frak and Chucky Egg, Repton, and Castle Quest which I'd completely forgotten about until this.

[@peterobinson3678]

I still play Oolite to this day - basially exactly the same game, with better graphics and LOTS of mods! And it's free!!! www.oolite.org/download/

[@peterobinson3678]

I still AM playing it to this day! Download 'Oolite' for PC - free, and identical gameplay. :) Or David bell's site has an emulator and the original game for free.

[@eightbitsurrenderomi4148]

All the finest games the British can provide....

[@Kppot]

0:31 FTW!!!!

[@drittz7840]

Great list. I would of put Cybertron, Hunchback and Killer Kong on there as well.

[@SevenDeMagnus]

Cool. It still looks like a ZX Spectrum and less colorful Famicom/NES:-)

[@fordgt402]

nice music

[@ayudatengopiedrasenlosrino3786]

0:03: 1. Starship Command 0:07: 2. Chuckie Egg 0:12: 3. Elite 0:19: 4. Podd 0:25: 5. Overdrive! 0:30: 6. Labyrinth 0:35: 7. Football Manager 0:41: 8. Revs 0:47: 9. Repton 0:53: 10. Castle Quest 0:58: 11. Citadel 1:04: 12. Repton 2 1:12: 13. Thrust 1:16: 14. Way of the Exploding Fist 1:23: 15. Repton 3 1:27: 16. Yie Ar Kung-Fu 1:33: 17. Strykers Run 1:38: 18. Castle Ravenskull 1:46: 19. Exile 1:50: 20. Camelot

[@leecotterill3046]

but at the end of the day...for me..... Elite captured the imagination like no other game, cant wait to see the new generation!

[@kevin12567]

Elite shown in this video is the BBC Micro version since it has color, while the Electron could only show black & white in its hi-res mode. And Exile shown here is also the Micro version since it uses the whole screen; the Electron version has garbage screen data around the edges since some of the screen memory had to be used for game code.

[@applemctom]

Thanks, well noticed!

[@broomfs]

I played a lot of Frak, Chuckie egg and defender

[@beachlife2968]

Ravenskull and reptons were great games. There was another game i played, i can't remember the name but i'm sure a sinclair c5 was in it

[@MC-kz9we]

will all electron games run on the BBC b ?

[@backofficeshow]

My top 5 is in your top 20 😂

[@grimTales1]

Wasnt Ravenskull something of a Repton rip-off going by that snippet? What about Granny's Garden, Galaforce 1 and 2?

[@Xesh001]

No Ravenskull wasn't a Repton rip-off. They were different games by the same publisher - Superior Software.

[@TitanFind]

Repton was itself a rip-off of “Boulder Dash” by First Star.

[@Acerkool]

Where’s the original music?

[@conradleviston]

What, no Frak!?

[@bluepatch11]

What about palace of magic, I luv that game.

[@peterobinson3678]

Dare Devil Denis(sic) !!!

[@PeshwariNaan]

Escape From Moonrise Alpha, Mouse Trap, Vindaloo.

[@aruan7sp]

Yie Ar Kung-Fu looks better than the NES version

[@russyJ20]

Hobgoblin, Snapper (similar to pacman) Birdstrike!? Acorn electron was king. Kids these days don't know they're born

[@AlexRoseGames]

granny's garden tho

[@PodOfHeat]

Pandemonium?? Citadel??

[@Xesh001]

Citadel was there.

[@jozinzbazin3818]

Mam taki

[@TheRetroShed]

Starship Command was brilliant! I loved it. We did a video on it some months ago in case you're interested! kzbin.info/www/bejne/roe6qIChf8mbe7s

[@theamiga2000]

defender ?

[@calthmlikiseethm704]

Sad real sad... I feel bad that was all the best you had to play

[@mikekaraoke]

What made you say that

[@karltaylor6391]

Padding blocks you

[@applemctom]

Okay

[@dreamcastII]

Please change the title of this video. These are '20 BBC micro games'. Some of these games were badly reviewed in the day and are an embarrassment even then E.g. Overdrive the racing game does not even have any bends in the road and was poorly received. Games like Thrust and Way of the Exploding Fist are C64 ports and are not any better, at all. Games like Starship Command, Revs and Elite *are* good choices as they were unique or first out on the BBC Micro. (Elite on a BBC Micro is fast). Podd ? Podd ?? What possessed you to put that up here ? If someone is doing historical research try and get the reviews at the time to see what games are seen as special. This video has some good inclusions and some aberrations.

[@simonbutcher]

dreamcastII thrust originated on acorn platform and was subsequently ported to C64 etc. It had excellent gameplay and game physics.

[@lordevyl8317]

Thrust was NOT a port (Yes Barbarian was originally coded on the C64) However Thrust was originally coded on the BBC Micro. It was commercially released on the C64 first, but that doesn't mean shit. Thrust was originally coded by Jeremy South on the BBC micro. It's just that the C64 version was available for SALE first. It was NOT a "port" of a C64 game. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust_%28video_game%29

[@Vectrex4Life]

Commodore 64 version is the best. Just saying.

[@scottbreon9448]

Version of what?

[@adampjl]

No love for Felix in the factory? Shame on you.

[@PistolPixel]

no 'Shane'? the 2nd worst game ever created in the history of gaming