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{{short description|1982 video game}}

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{{AFC comment|1=Please add some reviews if possible. [[User:Jovanmilic97|Jovanmilic97]] ([[User talk:Jovanmilic97|talk]]) 14:19, 9 January 2021 (UTC)}}

{{Reply to|Jovanmilic97}}I've search the internet and even my old Atari magazines, but couldn't find any reviews. The game was published only for the Atari 8-bit and was quite obscure. If it is too obscure for Wikipedia just go ahead and delete this draft. [[User:Griggorio2|Griggorio2]] ([[User talk:Griggorio2|talk]]) 12:59, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

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{{Infobox video game

| title = Bug Off!

| image = Bug-off-atari-8-bit-front-cover-FAIR-USE.jpg

| caption=

| caption=[[Atari 8-bit family|Atari 8-bit]] front cover

| designer = Sparky Starks

| publisher = [[Adventure International]]<br>QuelleSoft<ref name=am_kampf/>

| engine =

| released = '''1982:''' Adventure International<br>'''1984:''' QuelleSoft

| genre = [[Shoot 'em up|Fixed shooter]]

| modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]

| platforms = [[Atari 8-bit family|Atari 8-bit]]

}}

'''''Bug Off!''''' is a single screen [[shoot 'em up]] written by Sparky Starks and published by [[Adventure International]] for the [[Atari 8-bit family|Atari 8-bit]] systems.<ref>[http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-bug-off_818.html http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-bug-off_818.html]</ref>

'''''Bug Off!''''' is a single screen [[fixed shooter]] for [[Atari 8-bit computers]] written by Sparky Starks<ref name=giantlist/> and published by [[Adventure International]] in 1982.<ref name="atarimania"/> QuelleSoft released the game in Germany as '''''Kampf dem Ungeziefer''''' ("Fight the Bugs") in 1984.<ref name="am_kampf">{{cite web |title=Kampf dem Ungeziefer |url=http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-kampf-dem-ungeziefer_15743.html |website=Atari Mania}}</ref>

==Gameplay==

The object of ''Bug Off!'' is to control a variety of bugs that swarm out of a Florida sinkhole and endanger the player's garden.

In Bug Off!, your garden has fallen into a Florida sinkhole, and the insects within have mutated into beasts of destruction. Armed with only a sprayer can of DDT, you must defend yourself from these rampaging insects.

[[Image:Bug-off-atari-8-bit-screenshot-fair-use.png|thumb|left|In-A game screenshotin (Atariprogress. 8-bit)The DDT sprayer is in the lower left, pointing upward.]]

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When the player is hit, theyhe will lose theirhis current can of DDT from theirhis sprayer, and a second can will be thrown to the center of the garden, destroying all bugs on the map. Although the player starts with 6 cans of DDT, they in reality have 3 lives. When all lives are lost, it's game over.

==Reception==

''The [[Addison-Wesley]] Book of Atari Software 1984'' concluded: "The sound and graphics are poor in ''Bug Off!''; then again, it isn't the type of game that needed better graphics. Game play is instinctively reflex rather than strategy oriented. It is a lightening fast repetitive game, but that doesn't mean it leaves you with a feeling of accomplishment". Overall ''Bug Off!'' received a D+ review.<ref name=wesley/>

== References ==

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<ref name=wesley>{{cite book |editor1-last=Wells |editor1-first=Robert P. |editor2-last=Rochowansky |editor2-first=Sandra |editor3-last=Mellin |editor3-first=Michael F. |editor4-last=Stanton |editor4-first=Jeffrey |date=1984|title=Addison Wesley Book Of Atari Software 1984 |publisher=[[Addison-Wesley]] |isbn=((0-201-16465-X)) |page=112 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/addison-wesley-book-of-atari-software-1984/page/n111/mode/2up |chapter=Shoot 'Em-Up Arcade Games}}</ref>

{{reflist}}

<ref name="giantlist">{{cite web|title=The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers|url=https://dadgum.com/giantlist/#S |last1=Hague |first1=James}}</ref>

<ref name="atarimania">{{Cite web|title=Bug Off!|url=http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-bug-off_818.html|access-date=2021-01-22|website=Atari Mania}}</ref>

}}

==External links==

* {{Internet Archive game|id=a8b_Bug_Off_1982_Adventure_International_US}}

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[[Category:Atari 8-bit computer-only games]]

[[Category:Fixed shooters]]

[[Category:Video games about insects]]

[[Category:Video games about plants]]

[[Category:Video games developed in the United States]]

[[Category:Video games set in Florida]]

[[Category:Single-player video games]]