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Moorhuhn (distributed as Crazy Chicken in Englishspeaking countries) is a German casual game franchise for PCs and the Nintendo DS. It consists of more than 30 games, the first of which – a shoot em up – was Germanys most popular computer game in the early 2000s.
The Moorhuhn character is a brainchild of Ingo Mesche. The game (now distributed as Die Original Moorhuhn Jagd) was developed by the Dutch
Witan studios, the Art Department advertising agency and Ingo Mesche as an advertisement for Johnnie Walker whisky in 1999. The games
objective was to shoot down, through a pointandclick interface, as many cartoonish swamp chickens (German: Moorhuhner; literally
moorhens, ie. willow grouses) as possible in 90 seconds.
From 2000 onwards the game was officially made available for download by Art Department.It became wildly popular in Germanspeaking
Europe, to the point of being denounced in the media as a threat to the bottom line of businesses, on of the number of hours wasted by employees playing the game.
Download: Moorhuhn Collection
