Chicken Invaders (game)

V • E
Weapons Regular Ion Blaster (CI1) Superweapons Missiles
Areas Solar System Earth • Space Burger Store
Characters Playable The Hero NPCs Space Burger Clerk • Narrator
Waves
Enemies & Bosses Enemies Ordinary Chicken • Asteroid Bosses Big Chicken
Items Powerups Gift Food Drumstick
Other Game Mechanics Cheats • Lives Technical Ultra VGA Engine • Debug Mode
DOS Version

Chicken Invaders (DX Edition) is the first episode of the Chicken Invaders franchise, which was first released on July 24th 1999. It's the canonical start of the franchise.

It has been followed up by a remastered version on January 31st 2023 (first released as a public Beta eleven days earlier).

The game features very simple gameplay, with only one weapon, and the same waves every system. Unlike the others, this game never ends (you can read more on that here).

The game's sequel is The Next Wave, and its predecessor is the DOS version.

Summary

Sometime in the near future, Earth is invaded by chickens from another galaxy, bent on revenge against the human race for oppressing earth Chickens! Take the world's fate in your hands (or at least have an omelette) in this modern rendition of the 80's classic. Save the world today!

Features

• 1 or 2 players — play alone or with a friend!
• Increasingly difficult waves — how far can you go?
• Boss levels — watch out, these chickens are serious!
• Weapon power-ups — advance your main weapon through 8 power levels! Collect Missiles, too!
• High score tables — how high can you reach?

Download

This game is and was always available for free on the InterAction studios website. You can download it from here.

Trivia

• This version isn't the first Chicken Invaders ever, as the DOS version came before it. It, however, never was released. Nothing much is left from those versions today, aside from the title screen and some of its code that still gets used in the engine to this day.
  • This version is also the first one to use rendered graphics, as the DOS version used pixel art instead. The Hero didn't exist in it, instead, the player was controlling a handgun.
• The engine sprite for the spaceship in the original was taken from Mach 9.9, an earlier InterAction studios game.
• This is the only game not to have any editions.
• You cannot move freely in this game, only left and right, mimicking the original Space Invaders which this game parodies.
• The opening theme of the game is "Also Sprach Zarathustra - Op. 30" by Richard Strauss. This was chosen because it is the theme used in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• The Remastered version reuses some assets from future games. Currently only the Earth in the intro, in previous versions also the Space Burger store.