The cause for this change was never explained.īambo is very crude and crass, often farting, and yelling obscenities and stereotypical jokes at his prey. However, in the fourth game, Bambo has a broad-shouldered, muscular physique. In the first three games, Bambo has a sleek physique with a bandana tied around his forehead, a forest green hunting vest, and an ammo bandolier. He is voiced by Brian McCann, who frequently appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He can tote a vast array of weapons ranging from slingshots to machine guns. Bambo mounts the heads of humans he kills on a wall in his cabin. He is bipedal and hunts humans in a fashion similar to typical deer hunting in order to avenge all deer hunted by humans. The protagonist of the game is an anthropomorphic deer named Bambo, a portmanteau of the action hero Rambo and the Disney character Bambi. However, a fifth game has yet to be made.ĭeer Avenger: Stag Party is a box set containing the first two games in the series.ĭeer Avenger: Open Season is a compilation of the first three games in the series.

In the fourth edition of the game, as Bubba, now an angel, floats to Heaven, he states will be back in Deer Avenger 5. Starting with Deer Avenger 3D, polygon characters are used. A unreleased port of the game for the Sega Dreamcast 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. The third game in the series, Deer Avenger 3D, was released in 2000 for PC. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were among the actors to voice characters in Deer Avenger 2. According to Hypnotix founder Mike Taramykin, McCann recruited colleagues from NBC to be voice actors for the series. 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.' īrian McCann, who voiced the character Bambo, wrote jokes for Deer Avenger and Deer Avenger 2.

Deer Avenger 4: The Rednecks Strike Backįollowing the release of Deer Avenger in 1998, Simon & Schuster received email complaints from hunters.

It is a parody of the Deer Hunter series of games. It was developed by Simon & Schuster Interactive and Hypnotix.

Deer Avenger 2: Deer in the City: August 31, 1999ĭeer Avenger is a series of video games about a deer who hunts humans.

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