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Control stink bugs, cockroaches, lightning bugs, ants and more. They are all part of your 22 bug army. Each has its own mobility, strength and weapon characteristics. Use classic military strategy as your insectile troops fight enemy bugs over a kitchen floor strewn with junk food! Fight for dominance, against the clock, or sometimes just to survive. 56 battles, each more complex and challenging, and all with the kind of tongue-in-cheek humour that will keep you buzzing with laughter!Features
- Use sophisticated strategies based on real military tactics. Simple to learn, but hard to master.
- 22 different bugs to battle, from ants to flies to bees to stink bugs, all with their own unique strengths, weaknesses and abilities.
- Unusual pause-to-plan real-time strategy gameplay. Carefully choose your moves, then un-pause time to let the action play out – pausing again at any time to re-issue orders.
- Humorous military briefings, victory celebrations, funny parodies, and puns. So many puns.
- Charming animations and high-resolution (for 1994) VGA colour graphics.
- Single player and two-player modes.
Battle Bugs was created in 1994 by Epyx Inc., and designed primarily by Dennis Caswell, legendary creator of such classics as Impossible Mission and Pitstop II.
Game Discussion
Steam User 16
Definitely bought this for the nostalgia. Its a great game though. Starts out really easy so you can understand the basic concepts then starts to get more challenging. Good game for a child to get an idea of how older games used to be. Its got childish humor and cartoon graphics and it will help build critical thinking skills without being overly complicated. You have to use the manual in additional content section in steam to get past the start screen guard rhinobugs.
Steam User 9
Game of my childhood. Still very good in 2021, a bit too easy, but super fun to play. And the idea of you being a general of an army of insects fighting another army of insects for cakes and pizza that some guy forgot on his dining table is very cool.
Game is made with a lot of attention to details wchich is common for 90's games. Every insect has it's own abilities and powers but also it's own animations for moving, attacking, dying etc. There is plenty of humor here, it is not the top class humor, but it's okay considering how old the game is. Overall very addictive and fun, I am so happy to play it again. If you are an old gamer and want to show somebody what games looked like in 90-s this is a good example of it.
Steam User 7
I Experienced some performance issues. The folks who ported this classic over to Steam use DOSBox which is a popular emulator. I did a little digging and found a few commands, tried them out myself and they seem to work great. Modern computers shouldn't have any issue so remember these two commands:
Alt+Enter : Allows you to tab full screen or windowed, Alt Tabbing automatically sets it to windowed mode, so if you want it to go back to full screen (which I always do) then Alt+Enter is your winner, click into the window and use this command to go full screen.
Ctrl+F12 : Speeds up the game, no really, it literally does that, I just Press Ctrl+F12 about 10 - 15 times and the game runs super smooth afterwards, it's supposed to strain the CPU a bit more, but mine didn't seem to notice, probably because the game is so old and really doesn't require much to run fast and smooth.
Also the absolute unit of a human being that gave us this classic on steam was gracious enough to give us a PDF of the original game manual that gives us the entry codes, in case anyone hadn't noticed that yet.
I love this game, played it as a kid, and watched my dad play it before we'd even had windows 98. A great Classic.
Steam User 6
The joy I felt seeing Battle Bugs available for play on modern hardware...
This is a classic tactical game with loads of humor and fun. I spent hours upon hours playing this and I'm gladly going to take it up again.
Do yourself a favor. Play a classic every now and then. Just beware the memory requirements. As the manual warns, you'll need at least 587 kilobytes of conventional and 256 kilobytes of expanded memory for the game, never mind whatever DOS Box takes up.
Also, it'll take up 8MB of disk space, plus about 4MB for DOS Box.
You been warned! :D
Steam User 0
Reliving my own childhood with my son. Game somewhat holds up. Antiquated lack of convention (no pause shortcut, no scrolling the camera over the map with a keyboard command), but a well-thought out game. When a unit gets stuck in a loop unable to comply with a command, you get amazed at how it doesn't actually happen more often. The 90's were cool.
Steam User 0
In Conclusion,
It's been decades since I played Battle Bugs, yet I was pleased that the experience matched by nostalgic memories. I was further delighted to learn that I remembered most of the levels, though not necessarily how to beat them. Despite its age, Battle Bugs, aside from some minor control issues, has aged well. Its intricate puzzles require thought and planning, while feeling unique. The variety of bugs and weapons ensure that no solution is repeated. The art style, or bright colors and punny jokes, creates bugs with character. And as military trained bugs, the soldiers follow orders with mechanics that are straightforward and understandable.
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Steam User 0
Excellent game play and really lovely graphics and funny details in the food descriptions during mission briefings. Great childhood memories.