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Ben Nadel at Scotch On The Rock (SOTR) 2010 (London) with: John Whish and Kev McCabe
Ben Nadel at Scotch On The Rock (SOTR) 2010 (London) with: John Whish Kev McCabe

Chickeninvadersultimateomelettethanksgiving | Exclusive [cracked]

The series spans five main entries, from Chicken Invaders 2: The Next Wave to Chicken Invaders 5: Cluck of the Dark Side . But between those titles lies the "lost chapter"—a promotional event so strange that even the game’s wiki refuses to acknowledge it without a trigger warning.

Enter the . Why Thanksgiving? The Lore Explanation Unlike Christmas, Easter, or Halloween (which all have dedicated Chicken Invaders holiday spin-offs), Thanksgiving was always the odd yolk out. Why would interstellar poultry care about a harvest festival centered around eating a large bird? chickeninvadersultimateomelettethanksgiving exclusive

In the sprawling, often ridiculous history of video game marketing stunts, few artifacts are as bizarre, as calorie-dense, or as aggressively niche as the ChickenInvadersUltimateOmeletteThanksgiving Exclusive . For the uninitiated, the phrase sounds like a random word generator having a seizure. For the initiated—the hardened veterans of the Intergalactic Henpocalypse—it represents the single most controversial and indigestible piece of downloadable content ever released for the Chicken Invaders franchise. The series spans five main entries, from Chicken

Upon launching the game, the usual splash screen was replaced with a pixel-art Norman Rockwell painting of a family feasting, with the turkey replaced by a giant, pulsating, golden omelette wearing a pilgrim hat. Why Thanksgiving

Let’s crack this egg wide open. For those who have been living under a rock (or inside a bunny-proof bunker), Chicken Invaders is the cult-classic arcade shooter by InterAction studios. The premise is simple: You are a lone space pilot. Chickens have evolved. They are angry about humanity’s oppression of their species (specifically regarding omelettes and nuggets). Your job is to shoot egg-shaped lasers at space-faring roosters to save the universe.

For a hardcore subset of Chicken Invaders fans—calling themselves "The Omelette Order"—this lost DLC is the Holy Grail. They gather every Thanksgiving evening not to eat turkey, but to emulate the ROM on emulators, trying to re-spawn the boss via hex editing.

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