Chicken is a video game for Atari 8-bit computers written by Mike Potter and published by Synapse Software in 1982.

1978 arcade video game Avalanche, replacing the buckets and boulders with a hen trying to catch her eggs.

The player is in control of a chicken that can move horizontally back and forth along the bottom of the playfield, pushing a basket.

[2] Mike Potter joined Synapse in 1981 after writing the game Protector and initially distributing it through another company, Crystalware.

Creative Computing called the game "silly, but fun" and noted that the players often broke out laughing.