By Quintin Smith on December 20th, 2010 at 3:27 pm.
Bat Country is a great little browser game that tells the touching story of a helicopter pilot doing whatever it takes to get his men back, even if “whatever it takes” means defeating a whole sky full of massive bats, and even if you never find out who those ‘men’ actually are. You fly your craft around with the mouse, there’s a really nice bomb-throwing mechanic and the music’s pretty great. Have a play. C’mon, it’s Christmas! Let’s kill some bats! Thanks to the Indiegames blog for the tipoff. More bats please, Indiegames blog. I like bats a lot.
Has it really been 30 days already?
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Goddamn! Beat me to it! So good to see that some people remember that
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MINUTES late!
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*glows*
Happy memories.
Best. PCG. Page. Ever.
(except for p. 102 of the latest issue)
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How ’bout an ellucidation for those of us with cheap seats? :)
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Ha, I just came around to declare much the same, and to see if anyone else remembered. :)
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Sorry, Gassalasca, this might be one of those things you had to be there for.
It’s a UK PC Gamer magazine joke on a spoof page based on all the crappy French adventure games John Walker was having to review.
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I can’t play it due to the extraordinarily laggy BBC flash ad underneath it that literally destroys my pretty beefy desktop.
Ho hum. Guess I’d best hunt down adblock or something.
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Here ya go:
http://www.badhed.com/play-game/bat-country
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Holy crap it’s a bat get in the car
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Wait!
We can’t stop here…
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How is this only the 4rd comment? I am dissapoint..
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I must admit, I was wondering if people were intentionally avoiding the obvious referance.
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Isn’t that music from Final Fantasy 6?
I think it’s the factory theme isn’t it?
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Sounds like a (really cool) medley of FF6 music to me.
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There’s also a remix of the Super Mario World castle theme on the 3rd stage.
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Haven’t played either of the above, but I’m certain I could make out the final boss music from Sonic 3 in there.
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Also, I’m pretty sure a sound clip from Sinistar plays when you start up the game.
Bizarre musical plagarism aside, it’s a nifty little game. I need to play some more.
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First level was Castlevania, too.
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It’s Dirt Devil by Zircon, from OCR. It’s a remix of the Devil’s Lab theme from FF6.
http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01685/
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Not going to lie – before I read the body of the article, I though this was a flash game about a snobby whale.
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And that’s the title of a good song by Avenged Sevenfold. (Not that that matters, after all)
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Can’t get the hang of it at all. When the action gets frenetic, I keep clicking outside of the tiny flash area, causing a spacebar scrolldown whilst I (almost certainly) explode offscreen.
BAD.
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Hey nice, this is pretty fu -OH GOD A GIANT SHARK FUCK FUCK FUCK
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This calls for Dragan Stevic!
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*elbow drops a shark*
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“I don’t want to cause any alarm…”
Made me chuckle. But then the shark got me.
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snarky comments aside. this is a nice shooter. i’ll definitely spend some quality time with it.
wiiandthekid.com
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Why the spoiler pic?!?
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Great game, but I couldn’t finish the last level because I suck. So that was a shame.
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SEX VAMPIRE!
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