Big Buck Safari

**Big Buck Safari** was the 6th game to be released to arcades in the Big Buck Hunter franchise. This was the first game to introduce hunting in Africa, and also the first to introduce trophy hunting. It was released in 2008.

## Adventures

* Sable
* Kudu
* Wildebeest
* Gemsbok
* Cape Buffalo

## Trophy Animals

* Zebra
* African Elephant
* Giraffe
* Lion
* White Rhino
* Hippopotamus
* Black Panther
* Leopard

## Critters

* Meerkat
* Vulture
* Crocodile
* Flamingo
* Aardvark
* Tarantula
* Mandrill
* Beetle
* Chameleon
* Stork
* Ostrich
* Bat
* Hyena
* Forest shrew
* Tody
* Bull frog
* Red-eyed tree frog
* Ring-tailed lemur
* Springhare
* Warthog
* Pangolin

### Other Animals

* Chimpanzee
* Gorilla
* Turtle
* Pygmy bird (Kingfisher)
* Ant (Fire ant)

## Bonus Games

* Ant Bonus - *"Shoot the Ants"*
* Booby Trap Bonus - *"Shoot the Targets"*
* Chameleon Bonus - *"Shoot the Chameleons"*
* Drumbeat Bonus - *"Shoot the Targets"*
* Frog Hop Bonus - *"Shoot the Frogs (x4)"*
* Hyena Bonus - *"Shoot the Hyenas"*
* Meerkat Bonus - *"Shoot the Meerkats"*
* Monkey Drop Bonus - *"Shoot the Falling Coconuts"*
* Ostrich Bonus - *"Shoot the Ostriches (x4)"*
* Pinwheel Bonus - *"Shoot the Targets"*
* Pygmy Bird Bonus - *"Shoot the Pygmy Birds"*
* Shrunken Head Bonus - *"Shoot the Shrunken Heads (x4)"*
* Tarantula Bonus - *"Shoot the Tarantulas"*
* Turtle Toss Bonus - *"Shoot the Turtles (x2)"*
* Waterfall Bonus - *"Shoot the Barrels & Targets"*

## Trivia

* This is the first game to not be narrated with a Southern accent. Ken Burroughs narrates the entire game with a thick African accent. Yenner Watani is also credited in the credits attract video.
	+ Similarly, African music plays throughout the game instead of the guitar music.
* Unlike Big Buck Hunter Pro, this game did not get a new animal when it came time for tournaments. The reason for this is unknown, however it's possible that adding it would have required re-animating parts of the intro video to accommodate it, and since it was more complex than the intro video for Pro, it would not have made sense to spend resources to do it. It's also possible that they would have had to pay Ken Burroughs to do additional lines for this animal, even though he would later do the lines for Ibex Adventure in Safari Outback.
	+ It's possible that there were plans to include an extra animal for online games. On the cabinet side art of the standard version, there is a Leopard on a tree branch holding what appears to be a dead Impala. Every animal shown on the cabinet appears in the game except for this one. This may have been a planned tournament edition animal but it was possibly scrapped for unknown reasons.
	+ There are also chimpanzees that appear in attract videos (the ones that tell you how many credits are in) but they don't appear anywhere in the game outside of the Monkey Drop Bonus.

* This game was originally going to have some form of bow hunting. However, this feature would not be utilized until Big Buck Hunter Reloaded. The reason it was scrapped is because it wasn't a very appealing dynamic for an arcade game.
* The Bonuses are selected randomly at the end of each Trek, unlike Pro where each Bonus was assigned to a particular Trek.
	+ However, in the Outback update, the Bonuses are still chosen randomly, but locked onto their respective continents.
* This game had several ports.
	+ In the fall of 2011, Super Happy Fun Fun released 2 versions.
		- They released a Plug N' Play version with Jakks Pacific (after they both made a version of Big Buck Hunter Pro 2 years prior). This version only had 3 Adventures and excluded a few trophy animals that were in the original arcade version. Even though it was as simple as the Plug N' Play version of Pro, it had improved targeting.
		- They also released an iOS version. Initially it only had one animal, but by the summer of 2012, all of the animals from the arcade version were available to play on iOS. It is no longer on the Apple Store and it is also no longer playable after iOS 10.
	+ In the fall of 2017, Super Happy Fun Fun released Big Buck Safari for their Sure Shot HD console after they did it with Big Buck Hunter Pro. They also released the Outback content as an add-on for Safari just like they released the Open Season content as an add-on for Pro. This is the first time that content previously exclusive to Big Buck World was available to play at home.
	+ At the end of 2020, Arcade1Up will be releasing Big Buck World in 2 different cabinets (one is World-branded and the other is Pro-branded) in a partnership with Play Mechanix & Raw Thrills. This is the 4th time that Big Buck Safari will be available outside the arcade, and the 2nd time that the Outback content will be available outside the arcade. However, this is the first time that Big Buck World will be available for home use in one package.

1. ↑ https://voice123.com/kenburroughs