Cast your mind back to 2020 and the recent global unpleasantness. To take my mind off things I decided to ace a BBC Micro game that had tormented me for decades.
I present Boffin on the BBC Micro, by Paul O'Malley. To call this game hard doesn't even come close. It's sadistic in the way that only teenage programmers in the 1980s could do.
You play the titular Boffin. Your mission is to collect every horseshoe in the level and present them to the Guardian Owl. Fail to collect them all? The Owl will kill you. You can move left, right, jump and deploy the Boffin's umbrella. You can pick up additional points by collecting petri dishes and other science equipment.
To call it a pixel perfect platform puzzle game doesn't do this evil enough infamy. Once you've beaten the game once you get to do it all again, but with a different colour pallette. Beat that and the pain really starts - you have to collect something every five seconds or else you'll die!
I must confess, I lied. I never have completed this game. It probably doesn't have one. I tried my best on the third round, but I don't think it's possible.
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