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Atic Atac is a flip screen arcade-adventure for the BBC Micro from Ultimate Play The Game. Online sources disagree about when the game was released for the BBC Micro - some say 1983 and some say 1985. An advert in the February 1984 issue for Ultimate makes no mention of a BBC version of either Atic Atac or Jet Pac, so I am going to rule out the 1983 date for now. This is especially so as the earliest review I have found so far for the BBC version was in 1985. The BBC Micro version of the game was written by David Rhys Jones.
As one of the early flip-screen arcade adventures that set the tone for a lot of games to come, Atic Atac has legendary status. You control a Knight, Wizard or Serf that has to escape from a castle by unlocking the front door. the only way to do this is to find all three parts of the Golden Key of ACG and bring them to the front door.
Making your challenge harder is that several of the doors in the castle require you to be carrying a coloured key to pass them and with five floors (including the Atic and some caverns) there are a lot of locations to explore to find the key pieces. The castle is also full of constantly spawning monsters, which steal some of your health if you touch them. Luckily you can fire constantly to keep them at bay to some extent.
There are also a number of boss enemies too. These can be destroyed or repelled by carrying the correct item and part of the fun is finding which item is effective against who. The cross against the vampire is an obvious one - the others less so!
One of the games most iconic features is your health meter, which is shown as a cooked chicken that slowly turns into just a carcass as your health runs out. You can replenish this with the food you find lying around the castle. Another key feature is that each character can use one of three types of secret passage - the Wizard uses bookcases, the Serf the drinks barrels and the Knight uses the clocks.
The castle is large and sprawling so it will take quite a long time for you to learn your way around and get comfortable with the castle layout. The graphics are well done - a little chunkier than the ZX Spectrum version but still detailed and colourful. Sound is up to par and the gameplay is absolutely fine - with one possible exception - the game moves very fast! But I don't care - it still plays really well and is just as much fun as the BBC original.
This run was made on the 21st February 2026 using the Pantheon emulator on PC. There are no skill levels and the final score reached was 13,090 points, with a game completion score of 30%.
Time stamps:
00:30 Title screen.
00:35 Knight selected and game start.
01:03 First life lost.
01:44 Frankenstein's Monster and second life lost.
01:58 The Vampire - hides in the corner because I am carrying the Cross.
02:20 Revenge on Frankenstein's monster - I'm carrying the spanner which kills it.
02:34 Third life lost.
04:30 Fourth life lost. Game Over! Final score 13,090 points and 30% completed.
As one of the early flip-screen arcade adventures that set the tone for a lot of games to come, Atic Atac has legendary status. You control a Knight, Wizard or Serf that has to escape from a castle by unlocking the front door. the only way to do this is to find all three parts of the Golden Key of ACG and bring them to the front door.
Making your challenge harder is that several of the doors in the castle require you to be carrying a coloured key to pass them and with five floors (including the Atic and some caverns) there are a lot of locations to explore to find the key pieces. The castle is also full of constantly spawning monsters, which steal some of your health if you touch them. Luckily you can fire constantly to keep them at bay to some extent.
There are also a number of boss enemies too. These can be destroyed or repelled by carrying the correct item and part of the fun is finding which item is effective against who. The cross against the vampire is an obvious one - the others less so!
One of the games most iconic features is your health meter, which is shown as a cooked chicken that slowly turns into just a carcass as your health runs out. You can replenish this with the food you find lying around the castle. Another key feature is that each character can use one of three types of secret passage - the Wizard uses bookcases, the Serf the drinks barrels and the Knight uses the clocks.
The castle is large and sprawling so it will take quite a long time for you to learn your way around and get comfortable with the castle layout. The graphics are well done - a little chunkier than the ZX Spectrum version but still detailed and colourful. Sound is up to par and the gameplay is absolutely fine - with one possible exception - the game moves very fast! But I don't care - it still plays really well and is just as much fun as the BBC original.
This run was made on the 21st February 2026 using the Pantheon emulator on PC. There are no skill levels and the final score reached was 13,090 points, with a game completion score of 30%.
Time stamps:
00:30 Title screen.
00:35 Knight selected and game start.
01:03 First life lost.
01:44 Frankenstein's Monster and second life lost.
01:58 The Vampire - hides in the corner because I am carrying the Cross.
02:20 Revenge on Frankenstein's monster - I'm carrying the spanner which kills it.
02:34 Third life lost.
04:30 Fourth life lost. Game Over! Final score 13,090 points and 30% completed.