Barmy Burgers
{{Short description|1983 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
|title = Barmy Burgers
|image = BarmyBurgers.jpg
|caption =
|developer = Gary Capewell
Gary Sewell{{cite web|title=The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers|url=https://dadgum.com/giantlist/ |last1=Hague |first1=James}}
|publisher = Blaby Computer Games (UK)
Ventamatic (Spain)
|released = {{vgrelease|EU|1983}}
|genre = Platform
|platforms = ZX Spectrum, Dragon 32/64
}}
Barmy Burgers is a platform game written for the ZX Spectrum by Gary Capewell and Gary Sewell and published in 1983 by Blaby Computer Games in the UK and Ventamatic in Spain. It is a clone of the 1982 Data East arcade video game BurgerTime.{{cite web |last=Sharkey |first=Scott |title=Most Egregious Videogame Ripoffs |url=http://www.1up.com/features/egregious-videogame-ripoffs |website=1up.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304015610/http://www.1up.com/features/egregious-videogame-ripoffs |archive-date=2016-03-04 }}
Gameplay
The player is a chef attempting to create three larger-than-life-sized hamburgers on a level made of horizontal platforms and connecting ladders. Walking over an ingredient causes it to drop onto lower platforms until complete sandwiches are formed at the bottom of the screen. Sausages and fried eggs chase the player; if they touch the chef, a life is lost.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} Throwing pepper on a pursuer briefly stuns it.
Reception
Crash praised the game for its sound and graphics,{{citation |title=CRASH 3 - Platform Games |magazine=Crash |publication-date=April 1984 |issue=3 |url=http://www.crashonline.org.uk/03/lguide07.htm}} while Computer and Video Games said that "Barmy Burgers is a good game for any Spectrum-owning Burgertime fan."{{citation |title=Burger Time for Fast Food Addicts! |magazine=World of Spectrum |issue=26 |pages=33 |publication-date=December 1983 |url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=C+VG/Issue026/Pages/CVG02600033.jpg}}
In 2010, 1Up.com included Barmy Burgers on a list of the "most egregious videogame ripoffs".
See also
References
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External links
- {{WoS game|id=0000422}}
Category:Video games about food and drink
Category:Video games developed in the United Kingdom
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