Technician Ted

Technician Ted (also known as The Chip Factory: Featuring Technician Ted) is a platform game for the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum home computers that was written by Steve Marsden and David Cooke and published in 1984 by Hewson Consultants.

Ted speaks to his mate, who tells him that his first job is to get to his desk, and from there he must make his way to the "Silicon Slice Store".

[1] Some of these tasks must be completed within a time-limit making it important for the player to guide Ted from one box to the other as quickly as possible.

The Spectrum and Amstrad versions feature a sprite-animated loading screen with a countdown timer,[2] a significant technical achievement at the time.

In 1986, Hewson published a special version of the game exclusively for 128K ZX Spectrums called Technician Ted - The Megamix.