Looking for an ant game

April 19, 2009 1:08 PM

Looking for a game where you trap ants with sticks.

I played this game years ago where there is a swarm of ants (At least I'm pretty sure it's ants) and you just place sticks down to try and trap them inside. Does anybody know what this game is? It isn't Ant Buster, Ant War, Ant Bully, or Ant City.

posted by frankie_stubbs to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

This is a long shot, but maybe Flea Circus? I can see how the simplistically-rendered fleas could get mistaken for ants, and how the goal of guiding them to the exit could get misremembered as trapping them. You also make extensive use of little sticks.
posted by Rhaomi at 3:39 PM on April 19, 2009

It would help if you could tell us what system you played this on? Was it a home console? If so, which one? Was it an arcade game? Maybe a board game?
posted by Effigy2000 at 4:15 PM on April 19, 2009

Here's a listing of board and card games with "ant" in the title from Boardgamegeek.com. Here's a partial list of games relating to insects from them. If it's a board or card game, boardgamegeek is a great resource; they have descriptions of games, often photos of the board, etc.
posted by LobsterMitten at 9:06 PM on April 19, 2009

Not ants, but the Lemmings games are very similar. You try to trap them, by various means, to keep them from walking off a cliff.
posted by Tufa at 12:33 PM on April 20, 2009