CATGUN: VICTORY MISSION G FANSITE

ABOUT

CatGun: Victory Mission G (often referred to as simply CatGun) is a cancelled shoot-em'-up video game for MS-DOS created by the Dutch game developer duo PixelHazard (Arjen Wagenaar and Luc Verhulst), which was developed around 1995-1996 (possibly since 1994 too).

I created this page so I could catalog my findings on this game (along with hosting the game itself), and also because I wanna practice some HTML. Sorry about this page looking ugly as sin, I guess.

CREDITS

Programming: Arjen Wagenaar [PixelHazard]

Graphics: Luc S. Verhulst (Luke S. Verhulst) [PixelHazard]

Music: Hans "Han C" Ouwejan [Eque], Felix Faassen [Eque]

P.S. These credits were compiled based off a bunch of context clues I found throughout my research of this game. I don't think there were explicit credits for CatGun written anywhere.

DOWNLOADS

This game has 3 known different builds, 2 of which are publicly available on the internet.

These are my copies of both builds, modified to be able to easily run on an MS-DOS emulator (like DOSBox, for example.) Ordered from newest to oldest.

Both of these files are RAR archives, containing three files each: CATGUN.BIN, CATGUN.CUE and info.txt (which contains instructions on how to install and run CatGun, written by yours truly.)

Unfortunately, since a .bin file wasn't provided for the January 1996 build, I had to make do with the .bin file for the April 1996 build by replacing the files in there with the files from the January 1996 build. Hopefully this is good enough. -_-

Originally graciously uploaded to the Internet Archive by Hans Ouwejan himself. (links below)

LINKS

Links to all of the pages/videos of CatGun that I could find on the internet.

PAGES

CDinteractive.co.uk forum thread about CatGun. Contains some screenshots of the purported 3rd build of the game.
CDIdev's page for CatGun. Covers the January 1996 build. Contains a bunch of scans of the box art for the physical CD containing the build.
eque.org page for CatGun, archived in August 2007.
- Older eque.org page for CatGun, archived in November 2000. Both of these pages contain a bunch of (unfortunately) dead and unarchived screenshots for the game, presumably the exact same as the screenshots in the aforementioned thread on CDinteractive.co.uk.
Hans Ouwejan's page for CatGun. Links to a Spotify album containing every single song he composed for the game (including songs unused in both builds linked above).
Internet Archive upload for the April 1996 build of CatGun. Dated May 24th, 2024.

Internet Archive upload for the January 1996 build of CatGun. Same date as above.

Old-Games.RU page for CatGun. Contains a review of the game (in Russian), 31 screenshots, and a video recording.
AbandonSocios.org forum thread about CatGun.

There used to be an official homepage for PixelHazard at www.xs4all.nl/~neko/, but the only capture for it on the Wayback Machine (December 1996) unfortunately couldn't catch the page when it was still open. -_-

VIDEOS

Hans Ouwejan's recordings of the various levels in CatGun, all hosted on YouTube. All of them uploaded on April 11th, 2020.
(Order is the same as the placement of the levels in the level select screen of the game.)

OldClassicGamer's recording of CatGun, uploaded on April 17th, 2020. Contains commentary.
Mr^Burns' recording of CatGun, uploaded on August 8th, 2024. No commentary.
UnknDoomer's recording of CatGun, meant for the game's page on Old-Games.RU (linked above). Uploaded on August 17th, 2024. No commentary.

SOME MORE WORDS

Yeah, that's it for now. I'll add one more section detailing my findings/theories (real juicy stuff!) to this page in a later update.

Greetz 2 all my friends, as always.

This page by Toppy (Gyrominiac), August 30th, 2024.
Silly face pixeled by me, based off the silly face on the demo disc cover. Page background and favicon ripped straight from the game.