Not to be confused with the 1970s ITV sitcom of the same name.
Longplay
Despite having the same name as a 1970s British sitcom, this has nothing to do with the show starring Leonard Rossiter or Don Warrington. Instead, this is a type-in arcade-style game from Issue 4 of Acorn Programs from June/July 1984. In this game, you move left and right to collect all the droplets that you can in a bucket before the strength of the floor below your bucket completely weakens and gives way from all of the falling water droplets. In each stage, you have 60 seconds to survive until the carpenter shows up and re-strengthens the floor. The strength of the floor starts out at 100, but goes down by 5 every time a water droplet hits the floor.
The game starts out easy, but by the time you reach the third screen, the game becomes near-impossible to complete. It is very possible for a droplet to drop down in an area that you can't reach despite your best efforts, even when there are only so many areas in the ceiling where the water drops can drop down from at that point due to how fast the droplets are coming from. Good luck trying to reach even the fourth screen in this one. One session of this game will only last a few minutes, at most.
Is the game playable? Yes. Are there any problems with the controls? Absolutely not, from what I gathered. At the end of the day, this game gets really hard, really quickly, but at least it's enjoyable for what it is and how long it lasts. The graphics, while pretty crude, are easily identifiable and easy to pick apart. You'll only hear sounds when you either miss or catch a water droplet, but given how the BBC Micro is, especially with games from the first half of the 1980s, it's serviceable and something I can't complain about. It may be one of the earlier type in games for the system, but it's good for what it is.
