''Deer Avenger'' is a 1998 video game from

Simon & Schuster Interactive Simon & Schuster LLC (, ) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. Along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperColl ...

. The game is a parody of the game Deer Hunter.

Development

The game was announced in October 1998. Deer Avenger was written by Brian McCann, staff writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien a late-night talk show that airs on NBC.

Reception

Inside Mac Games ''Inside Mac Games'' (''IMG'') started in 1993 as an electronic magazine about video games for the Mac. It was distributed on floppy disk, then CD-ROM, and eventually became a website. History In 1992, Tuncer Deniz, who was unemployed, decided ...

'' gave the game a score of 4 out of 5, stating: "As with most games, if you dig hard enough there are cheats available on the web. I have not tried them yet but I am sure some of them will work on the Mac. Deer Avenger is not an essential buy, but one that if you know what to expect delivers what it promises.". The game was the top-selling software title at

Walmart Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States and 23 other ...

and made the top 10 game charts in the United States in late 1998. It appeared at number 10 of ''

PC Data PC Data was an American market research and point of sale tracking firm founded in 1991 and based in Reston, Virginia. Its founder, Ann Stephens, had worked previously as the head researcher for the Software Publishers Association. Initially, th ...

''s best-seller list for all of 1999 selling 343,756 units. Following the release of ''Deer Avenger'' in 1998, Simon & Schuster received email complaints from hunters. Walter Walker, a vice president for the company, was quoted in the ''Los Angeles Times'' saying "our first notion was to make these guys a gift of a dictionary, because not many of them can write."

Sequels

The game received several sequels; '' Deer Avenger 2: Deer in the City, Deer Avenger 3D'' and ''Deer Avenger 4: The Rednecks Strike Back.'' ''Deer Avenger 3D'' was released in 2000 for PC. An unreleased port of the game for the Sega

Dreamcast The is the final home video game console manufactured by Sega. It was released in Japan on November 27, 1998, in North America on September 9, 1999 and in Europe on October 14, 1999. It was the first sixth-generation video game console, prec ...

was developed by Westlake Interactive in 2000, but went undiscovered until 2017 when a pre-production GD-ROM was found at the garage sale of a women's club in New Jersey. Starting with ''Deer Avenger 3D'', polygon characters are used. In the fourth edition of the game, as Bubba, now an angel, floats to Heaven, he states will be back in ''Deer Avenger 5''. However, a fifth game has yet to be made. ''Deer Avenger: Stag Party'' is a box set containing the first two games in the series. ''Deer Avenger: Open Season'' is a compilation of the first three games in the series.

References

{{Hypnotix 1998 video games Classic Mac OS games Hypnotix games Parody video games Simon & Schuster Interactive games Video games about deer Video games developed in the United States Windows games