In a nutshell...

You’re the bird on a wire in this old skool side-scrolling platformer.

What’s it good for?

Giving your thumbs a thorough workout, and enticing you into having “just one more go” to destroy your previous high score.

Judgement time...

Fried Chicken is an unashamed throwback to the days of 8-bit gaming, a permanently rolling, side-scrolling cartoon platform game that sees you guide a cheeky chicken along a series of telephone wires. Along the way you rack up points by collecting stars and dispatching enemies, which you do by dropping onto a the wire next to them, sending them plummeting to their doom.

You’ll also have to negotiate some simple jumping puzzles, but have a small range of power ups at your disposal to help you out along the way: potions to turn you into a jumping superhero; chilli peppers to make you impervious to pain; worms to speed you up; and weighty anvils to slow down your progress along the wire (thus giving you more time to amass points).

The medium level is pointlessly easy (we finished the game on the first go), but switch it up to the hardest setting and the increase in speed makes things a little more testing - but only just. In fact, while the game is heaps of fun, it’s a little too short to get full marks from us. That’s not to say it doesn’t hold some replay value, though: you’ll be going back to it to try and beat your previous high score. Now that’s real old skool stuff.