Achieved at : 2026-11-13
Rank : 1
(world record)
Lups : 100
Approved :
Yes
Voting completed : 2026-11-14
| General Rules: |
Play on any emulator as Oric-1 or Oric Atmos. Play with default settings unless otherwise specified. No use of trainers, cheats, saved game files, auto-fire (when not default present in-game), emulator save states, or other emulator advantages. No use of code modifications that give the player an advantage over other players. 1 player only. No continues. It is discouraged and may lead to voters not accepting your score to - excessively point farm - use glitches or other game exploits |
| Specific Rules: | Play the game selecting Skill Level: 1 = Easy. |
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✅✅✅✅ VOTING : Y E S ! ! ! ✅✅✅✅
Nice looking game!!!!
Nice looking game!!!!
TGP
Omelette 2026 for the Oric is an overhaul of a 1984 type-in program by Alan Downs that appeared in the June 1984 edition of Computer and Video Games magazine. Claude was used to convert the BASIC program to machine code for smoothness and speed, update the graphics, and add additional gameplay elements such as the Golden Egg and High Score table.
The game (also called Easter Omelette inside the original BASIC listing), features a chicken trying to stop the kitchen from blowing up by overheating. The Chef (Chef Oric) has obviously gone a bit crazy from the workload and turned the cooker up to max. Two pans sizzle over the roaring flames. These get hotter and hotter over time and if either pan overheats, the kitchen goes up in flames. Your chicken can cool both pans by dropping eggs in them. If you get enough eggs into the bottom pan, the rope extends down the left side of the screen, and you can climb down to turn off the gas and save the kitchen. If you get too many eggs in the top pan, Chef Oric builds his ladder all the way to the top of the screen, stealing all the eggs and guaranteeing the destruction of the kitchen - Game Over! You also lose your one and only life if you climb down the rope too soon - you have to wait until it is fully extended. On later levels a Golden Egg appears at random which adds two rope or ladder segments to the side whose pan it falls in. There are two skill levels, with the harder one meaning the kitchen catches fire at a lower temperature.
The game was released in November 2026 and is available on the Internet Archive here:
https://archive.org/details/omelette-...
As well as the 2026 reimagining, the archive contains a copy of the original BASIC program in .TAP format and a PDF document analysing how the original program by Alan Downs worked. This is interesting in itself as it shows a number of neat decisions Alan made to make the original game work well in Oric BASIC. The language is quite slow for making arcade games, so finding any savings in performance makes a significant difference to the players experience.
A bit of fun, melding a program from 40 years ago with modern technology. As someone who remembers typing in programs like this, I enjoyed the 'what if' experience that comes from seeing what would happen if the game had been coded in assembly and expanded. The game has aspects of other 80s classics like Kaboom! but the use of the pans and your opponent's pan getting in the way adding extra jeopardy to your drops is an original feature I had not seen outside this game. I like the way you must drop eggs into Chef Oric's pan occasionally, otherwise the kitchen will definitely burn down. It adds pressure to your accuracy of dropping eggs into your own pan. If you want to see the original, you can see an example on YouTube here, though they appear to be playing on an Oric Atmos instead of the Oric-1 as it has slightly off alignments for some features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgsHK5Tcz3E
This game was played using the Oricutron emulator on the 13th November 2026. Skill 1 (Easy) was selected. The final score was 1,320 points.
00:30 Title screen and skill level selection.
00:38 Game Start.
01:50 Rope complete, climb down to turn off the gas.
02:00 Round 2 begins.
03:14 Rope complete.
03:23 Round 3 begins.
03:35 First appearance of the Golden Egg, it lands in my pan, so I get two rope segments.
04:50 Rope complete.
05:01 Round 4 begins.
05:54 Chef Oric's pan overheats and the kitchen catches fire! Game Over! Final score 1,320 points.
06:06 Initials entry and High Score table.
The game (also called Easter Omelette inside the original BASIC listing), features a chicken trying to stop the kitchen from blowing up by overheating. The Chef (Chef Oric) has obviously gone a bit crazy from the workload and turned the cooker up to max. Two pans sizzle over the roaring flames. These get hotter and hotter over time and if either pan overheats, the kitchen goes up in flames. Your chicken can cool both pans by dropping eggs in them. If you get enough eggs into the bottom pan, the rope extends down the left side of the screen, and you can climb down to turn off the gas and save the kitchen. If you get too many eggs in the top pan, Chef Oric builds his ladder all the way to the top of the screen, stealing all the eggs and guaranteeing the destruction of the kitchen - Game Over! You also lose your one and only life if you climb down the rope too soon - you have to wait until it is fully extended. On later levels a Golden Egg appears at random which adds two rope or ladder segments to the side whose pan it falls in. There are two skill levels, with the harder one meaning the kitchen catches fire at a lower temperature.
The game was released in November 2026 and is available on the Internet Archive here:
https://archive.org/details/omelette-...
As well as the 2026 reimagining, the archive contains a copy of the original BASIC program in .TAP format and a PDF document analysing how the original program by Alan Downs worked. This is interesting in itself as it shows a number of neat decisions Alan made to make the original game work well in Oric BASIC. The language is quite slow for making arcade games, so finding any savings in performance makes a significant difference to the players experience.
A bit of fun, melding a program from 40 years ago with modern technology. As someone who remembers typing in programs like this, I enjoyed the 'what if' experience that comes from seeing what would happen if the game had been coded in assembly and expanded. The game has aspects of other 80s classics like Kaboom! but the use of the pans and your opponent's pan getting in the way adding extra jeopardy to your drops is an original feature I had not seen outside this game. I like the way you must drop eggs into Chef Oric's pan occasionally, otherwise the kitchen will definitely burn down. It adds pressure to your accuracy of dropping eggs into your own pan. If you want to see the original, you can see an example on YouTube here, though they appear to be playing on an Oric Atmos instead of the Oric-1 as it has slightly off alignments for some features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgsHK5Tcz3E
This game was played using the Oricutron emulator on the 13th November 2026. Skill 1 (Easy) was selected. The final score was 1,320 points.
00:30 Title screen and skill level selection.
00:38 Game Start.
01:50 Rope complete, climb down to turn off the gas.
02:00 Round 2 begins.
03:14 Rope complete.
03:23 Round 3 begins.
03:35 First appearance of the Golden Egg, it lands in my pan, so I get two rope segments.
04:50 Rope complete.
05:01 Round 4 begins.
05:54 Chef Oric's pan overheats and the kitchen catches fire! Game Over! Final score 1,320 points.
06:06 Initials entry and High Score table.