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![[Loading screen]](/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/t/gif/TechnicianTed.gif "Loading screen")
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![[In-game screen]](/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/t/TechnicianTed.gif "In-game screen")
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| Full title | Technician Ted |
| Also known as | Chip Factory: Featuring 'Technician Ted', The |
| Year of release | 1984 |
| Publisher | Hewson Consultants Ltd (UK) |
| Re-released by | Rack-It (UK) |
| Author(s) | Steve Marsden, David Cooke |
| Machine type | ZX Spectrum 48K |
| Number of players | 1 |
| Controls | Keyboard |
| Type | Arcade: Platform |
| Message language | English |
| Original publication | Commercial |
| Original price | £5.95 |
| Budget price | £2.99 |
| Availability | Available as both Perfect TZX and non-TZX |
| Protection scheme | Search Loader |
| Additional info | Appeared on tape 1, side A of the compilation 10 Computer Hits 2 (Beau-Jolly Ltd)
Appeared on side A of covertape Crash issue 83: Presents 19 (Crash) Also listed on Wikipedia and Freebase |
| SPOT comments | Crash cover game |
| Series | This game belongs in the following series:
1. Technician Ted -- Technician Ted: The Megamix 2. Costa Capers |
| Other systems | This title was also advertised for and/or published on the Amstrad CPC |
| Score |
7.40 (42 votes) 
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| Filename | Size | Type | Origin | Code | Barcode | D.L. | Year | ||
 | TechnicianTed.tzx.zip | 37,113 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Original release | 1984 | ||||
|  | TechnicianTed.z80.zip | 23,310 | ((non-TZX) Z80 snapshot image) | 1984 | ||||
| TechnicianTed(Rack-It).tzx.zip | 37,166 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Re-release | 5012635010694 | 1989 |
| Filename | Size | Type | |
 | TechnicianTed.gif | 1,709 | (Loading screen) |
| TechnicianTed.scr | 6,912 | (Loading screen dump) |
| TechnicianTed.gif | 2,905 | (In-game screen) | |
 | TechnicianTed.txt | 4,327 | (English instructions) |
| TechnicianTed.gif | 54,767 | (Game map) |
| TechnicianTed_2.png | 53,528 | (Game map) |
| TechnicianTed.jpg | 68,378 | (Cassette inlay) | |
| TechnicianTed(Rack-It).jpg | 120,025 | (Re-release cassette inlay) | |
| TechnicianTed.jpg | 204,485 | (Advertisement) | |
 | TechnicianTed.ay.zip | 2,932 | (Ripped in-game and theme music in AY format) |
| The Tipshop has hints, cheats and/or POKEs for this game! |
| Title | Author | Year | Platform | Status |
| Return of Technician Ted | Musti, Gigatron | 2002 | PC/Windows | available |
| 2 player reviews [ View | Write one ] |
| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Popular Computing Weekly | 12.84 | page 305 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 1.85 | page 205 | (News/Note - Santa's star turn) | [full page] |
| Personal Computer News | 1.85 | page 334 | (News/Note) | |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 1.85 | page 225 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 1.85 | page 37 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Crash | 2.85 | page 16 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 2.85 | page 243 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 3.85 | page 204 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 3.85 | page 231 | (Map) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 3.85 | page 442 | (Map) | [full page] |
| Personal Computer News | 3.85 | page 237 | (Review) | |
| Computer Gamer | 4.85 | page 69 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Crash | 4.85 | page 70 | (Map) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 4.85 | page 83 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 4.85 | page 110 | (Map) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 4.85 | page 318 | (Map) | [full page] |
| Sinclair Programs | 4.85 | page 19 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Crash | 5.85 | page 81 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 5.85 | page 425 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Spectrum | 5.85 | page 50 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 6.85 | page 132 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 6.85 | page 18 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Crash | 7.85 | page 78 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 7.85 | page 106 | (News/Note - Ted breaks out) | [full page] |
| Crash | 8.85 | page 68 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 8.85 | page 17 | (Map) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 8.85 | page 122 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 9.85 | page 42 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Sinclair Programs | 9.85 | page 10 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 10.85 | page 11 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Crash | 3.87 | page 75 | (Review) | [full page] |
| YS Smash Tips | 8.88 | page 52 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| ACE | 3.89 | page 82 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Crash | 5.89 | page 30 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 5.89 | page 51 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 9.89 | page 39 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 10.89 | page 39 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Crash | 12.90 | page 3 | (CoverGame) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 6.92 | page 47 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 11.92 | page 28 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| MicroHobby | 6.85 | page 12 | (Nuevo) | [full page] |
| MicroHobby Especial | 11.85 | page 19 | (Supercincuenta) | [full page] |
| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Crash | 1.85 | page 131 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 1.85 | page 441 | (CompoEntry) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 1.85 | page 51 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Crash | 2.85 | page 15 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Home Computing Weekly | 2.85 | page 406 | (CompoResult) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 2.85 | page 117 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Crash | 3.85 | page 15 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Crash | 4.85 | page 15 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 4.85 | page 46 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 4.85 | page 67 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Crash | 5.85 | page 15 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 5.85 | page 77 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 5.85 | page 35 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Crash | 8.85 | page 6 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 8.85 | page 27 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Crash | 9.85 | page 6 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 9.85 | page 37 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 9.85 | page 21 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 10.85 | page 84 | (Advert) | [full page] |
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