Beavis and Butt-head in Screen Wreckers

The cover of the box

**Beavis and Butt-head in Screen Wreckers** - a virtual desktop destroyer toy made by *Cyclops Software* with *Viacom New Media* in 1996. It has 9 different toys to destroy the desktop with, these are: "Cornholio", "Tire Trouble", "Karate Beavis", "Painting Dudes", "Kick The Can", "Chuckfest", "Soda Jerks", "Shoot 'Em" and "Digger". Most toys can be completely controlled with the mouse and the mouse buttons. Some toys also use the keyboard. For specific details, see the individual toy. This game only works on any windows below XP, and it does not work on any other Windows higher than 7. If you get an error with setup, try going to the "Compatibility" and then set the program to "Windows 95", then click OK. Pressing the button "ESC" on the keyboard, you will be presented by the TV menu with the toys you want to select. If you mess arround by clicking the buttons on the remote, Beavis will say "*What's wrong with the TV?*". The "SCREEN SAVER" button on the remote is to start the ghost mode, to stop the ghost mode, You have to move the cursor away and then the game closes by itself. In the other screensavers (after Karate Beavis one), you can control as Butt-head in this by pressing "F2" on your keyboard, but if you want to be back as Beavis, press F2 again. If you exit the game by pressing "EXIT" button on the remoted, Butt-head will say "Welp, time to get back to the real world", or the Spanish teacher will yell "Get the hell out of here, Beavis!" (ripped from Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity)

## Cornholio

In the Cornholio, you need to control Beavis to catch the sugary items by mouse. There is a "Cornholio" meter, on the right side of the screen, and there is a red ball on the meter, which goes up high if you collect an item, and slowly goes down. If the ball reaches the point, Beavis will turn into his alterego "*Cornholio"* and will go crazy. After when you collect items to the max, Cornholio will spit out the parts of chocolate on the screen. If the ball goes down after you reached the point, Beavis will turn back normal with saying "*No, no, I don't wanna settle down, heh heh heh.*"

## Tire Trouble

Control Beavis and Butt-head in a tire by arrow keys and try not to knock them around too much. The tire will leave huge skid marks whenever it's direction is changed. Avoid the corners of your screen. Too many hits against the walls will eject Beavis and Butt-head, not to mention causing brain damage (that's why Beavis screams too much in there).

## Karate Beavis

Beavis has 6 deadly moves to destroy the objects hurdling toward him. High, medium or low punches and kicks on either the left or right side. Beavis will attack the area where your cursor is with a left click, or, use the corresponding key pad numbers to execute your moves. To operate the key pad moves, the NumLock must be on.  The keypad moves are as follows:

3 - Low-Right

6 - Mid-Right

9 - High-Right

1 - Low-Left

4- Mid-Left

7- High-Left

The more you hit, the higher you score.

## Painting Dudes

Control Beavis or Butt-head with the mouse.  Beavis can spray paint and Butt-head will paint with a brush when you left click.  Change your color with a right click. It's like Paint (almost), but with 2 MTV cartoon characters.

## Kick The Can

A large trash bin, full of rotting trash and no witnesses. Control Beavis or Butt-head with the mouse. Kick with a left click. Each time the can is kicked, more and more garbage will fall out. The garbage can be kicked around the screen until it lands.  In order to get a really good splat on your screen, kick the same object several times in a row.  Happy splatting.

## Chuckfest

Wouldn't this junk look better smeared onto your screen? Squish slurpies, hurl eggs, splat some rotten milk and throw bricks. Don't worry, you won't have to clean it up. Slide Beavis or Butt-head from side to side with the mouse. Chuck an item onto you desktop by clicking the left mouse button. The longer you hold down the left button, the harder and farther you will be able to throw. Choose the object you want to destroy with a right click.

## Soda Jerks

Beavis and Butt-head are about to learn a lesson in chemistry. When a vessel containing previously dissolved carbon dioxide is vigorously agitated, the contents increase in pressure. The contents are then propelled through the open drinking orifice.  Control your character with the mouse as Beavis/Butt-head holds an ice cold bubbly beverage waiting to explode. Change drinks with a right click (e.g Orange soda, grape soda, cola, and a soda in a green bottle). Shake your bottle with a left click and there will be a splashes (small particles of a drink) on the screen.

## Shoot 'Em

Break 'em! Break 'em! Beavis has a blow dart and a paint gun. Butt-head is armed with a sling shot and a dart gun. Now they are free to take out all of their pre-adolescent frustrations and blow up some really cool stuff.

Move Beavis or Butt-head from side to side with the mouse and shoot with a left click. Beavis will shoot to the left and Butt-head to the right.  A right click will toggle your arsenal.  Your score will appear in the upper corners of the screen.  You can reset your score at any time with the space bar.

## Digger

In this screensaver, you move by arrow-keys on the keyboard (like an RPG game). Beavis is on a lawnmower and Butt-head is on a plow truck. To make them shred your screen, hold space and then move. Playing as Beavis, Butt-head will say some directions sometimes.

## External links

* On archive.org
* On My Abandonware

## Trivia

* They have different text on the shirts (e.g on Butt-head instead of AC/DC it's SKULL), the reason why is because it was too expensive to add to the program (copyright's fault).
* Desktop Toys was also a program made by *Cyclops Software*, it's also a desktop destroyer only with it's characters (Almost the same as the Beavis and Butt-head one).