''Cabela's Big Game Hunter'' is the first video game in the ''Big Game Hunter'' series. It portrays a variety of

hunting Hunting is the human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to harvest food (i.e. meat) and useful animal products (fur/hide (skin), hide, ...

scenarios and has a variety of weapons, characters, animals, and locations. The game was published by HeadGames Publishing, in conjunction with hunting supply company Cabela's.

Reception

Computer Gaming World ''Computer Gaming World'' (CGW) was an American computer game magazine published between 1981 and 2006. One of the few magazines of the era to survive the video game crash of 1983, it was sold to Ziff Davis in 1993. It expanded greatly through ...

'' gave the game a score of one-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that it "suffers from a split personality: 50 percent of the game is decent; 50 percent of it is utter crap. ..If Head Games could find a workable hunt engine to pair with the pre-hunt preparations, they’d improve the game all the way to mediocre. As it stands, it’s not worth your money." The game sold 250,000 copies.

Expansion pack

''Special Permit'' is an expansion pack created for the original game. It released in 1998, featuring new animals, 23 new stands, a new world, 9 new weapons, new camps, a new target range and an all-new video.

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* 1998 video games Cabela's video games Elsinore Multimedia games Head Games Publishing games Hunting video games Video games developed in the United States Windows games Windows-only games {{sports-videogame-stub