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Chicken Run

Chicken Run for Game Boy Color brings all the fun and adventure of the movie to the palm of your hand. You take the role of Ginger as you guide your fellow chickens to freedom in this one-player action or…

3 November 2000

Chicken Run is a platform developed by Blitz Games, released 3 November 2000 on Game Boy Color.

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What Chicken Run is

Chicken Run is a platform game developed by Blitz Games and released in 2000. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on Game Boy Color only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Chicken Run for Game Boy Color brings all the fun and adventure of the movie to the palm of your hand. You take the role of Ginger as you guide your fellow chickens to freedom in this one-player action or puzzle game. More than 20 levels of puzzle-solving adventure span the farmyard and the pie machine, which will keep you busy for hours. To begin, you'll have to bring a group of chickens through the farmyard, carefully avoiding or deactivating any obstacle that may alert the farmers. Then it's off to the pie machine, where mechanical mayhem awaits you if you aren't careful. Once you've brought the chickens through the pie machine, you'll be back in the farmyard with a new bunch of chickens…
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How it plays

Its themes are action, comedy and stealth.

Where it sits in the Chicken Run series

Chicken Run is the first of 7 entries we hold in the Chicken Run series. The next entry was Chicken Run in 2000.

See all 7 Chicken Run games in release order →

What it launched against

Chicken Run launched on 3 November 2000, within three weeks of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike and Escape from Monkey Island.

Released around the same time: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island.

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When did Chicken Run come out?
Chicken Run was released on 3 November 2000 for Game Boy Color.

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