SB Recommends BBC Micro Games

It's a home computer. Found in schools in the UK in the 80s / early 90s.

• Chuckie Egg
  • Vamos: The best version (along with the near-identical Amstrad CPC port) of the classic single-screen platformer. Fast-paced and skilful with surprisingly satisfying bouncing physics.

• Citadel
  • Vamos: Platform exploration game in the vein of Jet Set Willy but (slightly) more forgiving, if just as baffling.

• Exile
  • The Blueberry Hill: This game has an absolutely stunning use of a limited colour palette.
  • Sketch: The British home computer version of Exile though is rather different to the action RPG versions of Exile available in the USA. To be quite honest, it's like a metrovania, with a real, living ecosystem to explore and use, eerie underground caverns, gradual progression, the ability to fly at will, real-world physics which need to be manipulated, and a warping quick-save feature where your spaceman can mark a point on a map, go somewhere else, and then warp back to it.
  • Vamos: Also has a really nice PC remake / sequel, Exile The Nameless: http://exile.ovine.net/

• Vertigo
  • Vamos: A difficult game to explain, but imagine Spindizzy without the exploration or Marble Madness crammed onto a single screen. Use slightly odd controls to get a generic object through mazes, against the clock. Weirdly addictive, good difficulty curve and awful / excellent music.