Zapper: One Wicked Cricket!, also known as Zapper, is a platform game developed by Blitz Games and published by Infogrames. It was released for Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, and PC.
During a squabble over television, the cricket Zapper tries to use his younger brother Zipper (a nymph) as a substitute TV antenna. Zipper is snatched away by an infamous thieving magpie, Maggie, who leaves an egg at the scene of the crime. Unfortunately, much to his dismay, Zapper sets off and determines to rescue his brother and turn Maggie into a jailbird. At the end of the game, Zapper gets Zipper back after defeating Maggie, and finally sets him up as a substitute TV antenna, just in time to watch TV by himself.
The player's aim is to traverse over eighteen levels as Zapper the cricket. Along the way the player must collect six eggs in each level. The player can jump or zap through the levels. If Zapper touches an enemy or falls into an environmental hazard, Zapper will lose his life and will respawn at the last collected egg checkpoint. Zapper has turn-based enemy movements, but the gameplay is similar to Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge, which instead has vehicles moving independently. It is described in the GameSpot review as "basically just Frogger without the license".
Zapper: One Wicked Cricket is abandonware and no longer sold or supported by its publishers. Files are archived here for these platforms:
How to play on Windows 10
This solution worked for me: Right click on the ‘zapper.exe’ .file and click on Properties. After that, go to the ‘compatibility’-tab. For the compatibility-mode, select ‘Windows 98 / Windows ME’.
In the ‘settings’ section below, turn on ‘640×480’ resolution and Run as adminstrator.
I’m running it myself on a Windows 10 device.
Thank for this opportunity; it was one of my first games and I lost the disc to it. You give me a bit of my childhood back, real thanks! 🙂
Really wanna play this game.. i had a demoversion back again in the childhood, but never the full game!
Please fix it! :))
EG. moved it from C: drive to another one.