At least Classic had the chickens occasionally popping up in humorous places, and reminded us of an amusement park shooting range. Well, at least there are other games, right? Like Weights, where the player has to shoot color coded weights at the matching chickens, trying to weigh them down enough to kill them. See+that+background+of+the+kart+racing+chicken?+It+never+moves. There is only one level, and only one difficulty setting, which means that it takes a minute and a half to play this game completely. The object is to tap the chickens to shoot them, killing as many as possible in a minute and a half. Players can scroll left and right on the panoramic farm scene and watch little rendered chickens walk or fly by. The Classic game is like duck hunt, but they added chickens and removed the fun. Chicken Hunter is a compilation of the Moorhuhn games, featuring a version of the classic shooter, as well as a few spinoffs: Weights, Gems, Spot the Difference, and Hotwire. We can't say what the appeal is exactly, but we suspect it stems from the sense of schadenfreude they get from killing chickens. There are Moorhuhn competitions online and the chicken has become a bit of an icon. Over in Deutschland, Moorhuhn is wildly popular, spawning numerous sequels and spinoffs. It was, instead, a rotten egg.Ĭhicken Hunter is actually the German game, Moorhuhn. Unfortunately, Chicken Hunter was not a German delight like their wacky version of chocolate cake.
So when we got a hold of Phenomedia's Chicken Hunter, we went into it with the same excitement we have when we're about to listen to oom-pah music.
Great things come from Germany: beer, bratwurst, Haribo candy, techno music.