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Chicken Crossing
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About the game
Why did the chicken cross the road? In Chicken Crossing, to beat the other chickens. Four chickens wait on the pavement at the bottom of a wide road full of traffic, each one controlled by a different player. Walk yours up through the lanes to the other side and you score a point; it then appears back at the bottom, ready for another trip. A round lasts 120 seconds, counted down at the top of the screen, and the chicken with the most crossings wins.
Cars and motorbikes speed along the lanes at different speeds, and some of them speed up without warning. Get hit and your chicken is thrown back toward the start, losing the ground it had gained. The only thing you control is forward and back, so the whole game is about timing: when to step into the next lane and when to wait.
The game is by Haroldo O. Pinheiro, made for The Honest Jam III. On the console it is a four-player game: two chickens per controller, one with the D-pad and one with the two buttons.
Playing it here
This is a homebrew game for the Sega Master System, running in the Gearsystem emulator. Click Play and press Z at the title screen. This page maps one controller to the keyboard, which is enough for two players on the same keyboard: one uses the arrows and the other uses Z and X. Chickens three and four need a second controller, so here they stay on the pavement. You can also play alone and try to beat your own score. After the round, the title screen shows the last scores. F2 saves the emulator state and F4 loads it.
Controls
| Key | Master System | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Up / Down arrows | D-pad, controller 1 | player 1 walks forward / back |
| X / Z | buttons 2 / 1, controller 1 | player 2 walks forward / back |
| Z or X | any button | start a round |
| F2 / F4 | — | save / load the emulator state |
Tips
Look one lane ahead. Before each step, check the lane you are about to enter, not the one you are in. Move only when it is clear.
Do not back off too far. Stepping back can save you from a car, but every step back has to be walked again.
Watch for sudden speed-ups. Some vehicles accelerate as they come. Leave a little more room than you think you need.
Credits and licence
Chicken Crossing is by Haroldo O. Pinheiro and its code is under the MIT License. The chicken sprite is by Diarandor (Solarus project, CC BY-SA 4.0), the car sprites by eracoon, the bike sprites by chasersgaming and the road tiles by tinyworlds (all CC0), from OpenGameArt. We serve the ROM the author published on SMS Power!, unchanged; the licence text and the full credits are linked from this page.
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