A game for Slambie to review
Tuesday, November 9th, 2004 - 12:00pm
Found via gametab on Frictionless Insight
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NRA Varmint Hunter Ships for PC
link to this post :: 11/ 8/04Speedco Shooting Sports has released its first PC game under a partnership with the National Rifle Association, called NRA Varmint Hunter. The game has players hunting prairie dogs and ground hogs using realistic guns and ballistics.
I'm speechless. Varmint Hunter? There's no such thing as a "Varmint" Hunter. Killing Varmints is what farmers and ranchers do in the course of the day just because it needs doing. Right? Guys?
Anyway, when I saw this, I immediately remembered Slambie and the John Deere American Farmer game. 
"And my son, too, thinks everything is a launchpad, every bug a meal, and every sunny day a reason to take all your clothes off and roll around in the grass." - rabbit
""The only good Varmint poontang, is dead Varmint Poontang.""
Carl Spackler, Carryshack
edit: spelling
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Umm do we REALLY need realitic ballistics to kill Prairie dogs? And who shoots them anyway? Aren''t they endangered?
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What a bunch of city folk. Prairie Dogs are a major pest to farmers, pretty much giant rats that eat crops and leave holes to injure livestock, so most farmers will happily grant you permission to shoot prairie dogs on their land. Think of it as plinking tin cans that will run and hide.
Varmint guns are a science unto themselves. They use very light bullets (nothing more than 6mm, with the .17 caliber being more popular these days) and very large loads of powder, and are shockingly accurate. I remember reading an article years ago about a guy that built a varmint pistol (bolt-action, looks like a rifle with no stock) that could hit aspirin tablets at 100 yards.
Edit: You can buy a video about it - http://www.dogbegone.com/
"Raise high the black flags, my children."
-- Gebhard von Blucher.
Hmm Didn''t know that... we by all means buy a gun and have at them... but still do they really need a game for that?
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Lord no. My dad used to head over to Nebraska with some friends and spend a full day shooting them for farmers in the area. Apparently in some parts they were nearing epidemic proportions. Might not be the case anymore.
That being said I''m placing this under the ""Who the hell gave this game the green light"" category. Isn''t this something a bored high school student could write with Flash?
Any bets on this game pulling a Deer Hunter and making it''s way to the top 10 on the PC sales charts?
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Why do they shoot them? Can''t they set up traps or do something more productive than shooting?
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Well, at least we know what will be the Walmart No. 1 selling game for the next 6 months.
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Will someone please think of the ground hogs!
I''m still waiting for the road kill game where I can score points for running down opposums, raccoons, and goth kids.
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Don''t forget the mimes!
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Usually poison is used for large-scale control (there are various federal and state prairie dog poisoning programs). Some people have fun shooting them though, and dead is dead from the farmer''s perspective.
Prairie dogs also can carry plague, so don''t handle the dead ones - infected fleas jump of the corpse and onto the nearest warm live thing, which will be you if you''re over there playing in the guts.
Speaking of guts, you can see clips of that video if you like watching prairie dogs explode and guts go flying: http://www.dogbegone.com/video.htm
"Raise high the black flags, my children."
-- Gebhard von Blucher.
Sounds like this could have been a good minigame for the John Deere game.
"And my son, too, thinks everything is a launchpad, every bug a meal, and every sunny day a reason to take all your clothes off and roll around in the grass." - rabbit
Let me introduce you to my ""Prairie Poodle Pounder"".
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Aren''t goth kids and mimes just two sub-species of the same genus? The black clothes, the white faces, the absolute self-absorption. They have to be at least cross-fertile - though, like the mule, the offspring would most likely be be sterile.
We can only hope.
Karla
My ongoing D&D campaign, Gaald, Certis and Trachalio playing
I always thought it was ""varmit"", no ''n''?
Actually I think they''re going to work it into the pest control expansion pack.
I''ve heard that you''ll be able to skin the critters and make keychains with their paws to sell along with deep fried varmit kabobs at your custom designed road-side stand.
MmmmmMmmMm...thems good eatin''!
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Mimes know nothing of the essential emptiness that gives ultimate meaning to our lives. Even the shadowed sepulchres echo with the gentle crackle of dried rose sorrows. It is only the willfully silent who do not live. Weep for the wastling waifs, but cry not for the soundless cynics.
Extremism in the defense of liberty *is* a vice. It has been since the first Crown Loyalist was tarred, feathered and set afire, and it's no better now. It corrupts first the individual, then ultimately the institution it defends.
You forgot old ladies.. they are worth one point. Goth kids are worth 2.
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