Chicken Run (video game)

This article is about the video game. For the film on, see Chicken Run.

Chicken Run
Developer(s)Blitz Games
Publisher(s)Eidos Interactive
THQ (GBC)
Producer(s)Patrick Cowan
Programmer(s)R. Fred Williams
Composer(s)Rob Lord
Platform(s)Game Boy Color, Dreamcast, PlayStation, Microsoft Windows
ReleaseGame Boy Color, Dreamcast, PlayStation
  • NA: 2 November 2000 (GBC)[1][2]
  • NA: 13 November 2000
  • EU: 24 November 2000
Windows
  • EU: 15 December 2000
  • NA: 14 January 2001
Genre(s)Platform, stealth
Mode(s)Single-player

Chicken Run is a platform-stealth based 3-D platform video game based on the 2000 film of the same name. Developed by Blitz Games and published by Eidos Interactive and THQ, the game was released in November 2000, prior to the movie's home media release, for the PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, Dreamcast, and Game Boy Color. The game (as well as the movie) is a loose parody of the 1963 film The Great Escape. The Game Boy Color version is a 2D isometric puzzle-solving game. The game's plot centers about a band of chickens escaping from an egg farm from their evil owners and fighting for freedom.

While the characters, mainly Ginger and Rocky, were voiced by professional voice artists, Benjamin Whitrow and Lynn Ferguson reprised their respective roles as Fowler and Mac.[3]

  1. ^ "THQ SHIPS CHICKEN RUN™ FOR GAME BOY COLOR [date mislabeled as "November 8, 2000"]". THQ. 2 November 2000. Archived from the original on 16 April 2004. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  2. ^ Harris, Craig (3 November 2000). "Chickens Run to Stores". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 8 April 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Chicken Run (2000)". Behind the Voice Actors. Archived from the original on 13 November 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2024.