By Alec Meer on September 16th, 2011 at 1:34 pm.
Bored? You are about to be unbored. Free browser game Burrito Bison is nothin’ but stoopid, and that’s why it works. It’s in the vein of about a million other play-until-you-fail infinite distance Flash and iOS games – Canabalt, Tiny Wings, you name it – but crucially it’s about a roid-raging bison wrestler fatally bouncing off the heads of vengeful gummi bears. The art’s lovely, it falls somewhere between sadism and absurdism, and it’s viciously compulusive in its cash-collection/skill-unlocking infini-cycle. I don’t have time to play this. I’m going to play this for the rest of the day.
Via Edge.
16/09/2011 at 13:38 Askeladd says:
Oh, this looks like a game to let some steam off.
16/09/2011 at 15:15 Askeladd says:
1:09:90 is my time
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21/09/2011 at 17:50 Benevolence says:
1:05:80
16/09/2011 at 13:53 LarsBR says:
Huh, I played this some time ago, and was pretty sure it was RPS that sent me there in the first place. Alec probably discovered his mistake and deleted the old article!
16/09/2011 at 13:53 Magnetude says:
These Sengoku ads don’t beat about the bush, do they?
16/09/2011 at 13:59 Burning Man says:
B-b-but I played this AGES ago. And finished it too.
RPS YOU ARE SLOOOOW. Also are we supposed to send in little notes on every Kongregate/Armor Games game we love?
16/09/2011 at 14:04 Alec Meer says:
You know what’s old? Saying something is old on the internet. Boooooooooooooooooooooring.
16/09/2011 at 16:05 DBG says:
Plese, answer this question
Because this game was featured on Kongregate and if the answer is yes then i’ll make sure to review all featured games and send good ones in.
17/09/2011 at 11:21 Alec Meer says:
Tip-offs to cool indie/free games are always welcome. We can’t look at everything, but we try to.
16/09/2011 at 14:09 Anarki says:
Warning: I completed this yesterday but it took me about 2 hours. One of those games where you always think “Just one more upgrade will do it!”. Great fun though.
16/09/2011 at 14:52 Hodge says:
Well I hadn’t played it, and I think it is quite splendid. SO THERE.
16/09/2011 at 15:12 LionsPhil says:
Hmm. This seems to mostly be a rubbish (honestly, having to click to dismiss pop-ups is horrid) version of Nanaca Crash, trading combos for a store.
(2574.87m, and many badly bruised vaccuous anime chacters.)
16/09/2011 at 17:23 Hodge says:
4139.60m. And you’re right, this one is better (though I enjoyed them both).
16/09/2011 at 18:09 LionsPhil says:
I believe my personal high is 6659.70m, but I’ve seen a friend get into five figures the high side of the decimal point.
17/09/2011 at 11:41 Lambchops says:
i’m sure one of my friends got a ludicrously amazing score at that game when we were playing it in IT classes at school instead of working many years ago. Gloriously silly it was.
18/09/2011 at 00:48 Phoenix says:
I think you’ve got it the wrong way around. This anime one with horrible production values and none of the charm would qualify as the “rubbish version”.
18/09/2011 at 03:52 zbeeblebrox says:
Nacana Crash was amusing, like, seven years ago. These days, I don’t play crappy flash games full of anime references I’ll never get unless I’m incredibly, incredibly high.
Personally, my favorite version of this genre (whatever the hell you call this genre) is Blast RPG because mixing this with those seemingly-pointless autoattack RPG games is really appropriate. Also, it doesn’t start you at zero power, which I find tedious.
16/09/2011 at 15:14 Dobalina says:
“It took you 01:24:70″.
PLEASE tell me that’s in minutes and seconds.
16/09/2011 at 15:16 Askeladd says:
minutes:seconds:tenth of a second
16/09/2011 at 15:58 Dobalina says:
00:56:60 when fully maxed out!
16/09/2011 at 17:59 Post-Internet Syndrome says:
00:55:80 :D
In the same round I took the last achievement, the one for reaching top speed.
16/09/2011 at 15:18 frypiggy says:
Where’s the picture of a train?
If you’re going to quote The Simpsons… at least include a picture of a train!
BTW, this game is…. ok, I guess.
P.S. WHERE’S MY BURRITO?!?! WHERE’S MY BURRITO?!?! (Another Simpsons quote)
16/09/2011 at 15:35 deadly.by.design says:
R.I.P. Friday Productivity
16/09/2011 at 15:44 Fitzmogwai says:
Screw the naysayers. This is ace.
16/09/2011 at 16:10 Riztro says:
Lovely little game, do wish it had a few more stages however. 1.02.60 is the best I’ve managed so far. Maybe with more upgrades.
16/09/2011 at 18:42 BobTheJanitor says:
It took me a little while to figure out why there was a picture of his underpants with a needle on it down in the corner. Then it hit me, and I groaned.
It’s a Speedo-meter.
16/09/2011 at 19:39 Robin says:
I enthused about this game with gesticulating motions to a roomful of people at Gamecamp earlier this year.
I think the established name for the genre is “Launch games”, confusingly enough.
Burrito has massively more interactivity after the initial launch than most of these games.
16/09/2011 at 21:50 Stephen Roberts says:
This kind of game holds my attention for about sixteen seconds. It would have been much less time than that but the artwork for the two page comic introduction was pretty cool.
What is the attraction? I started disliking it at the spinning launch thing.
17/09/2011 at 21:03 pertusaria says:
This was fun at first, but I got a little sick of revisiting the first two levels, and the fact that the main object was speed meant the game got progressively harder to watch. I prefer the similar Shopping Cart Hero, also on Kongregate.