Squirrel Kombat

Squirrel Kombat is a 1999 Mortal Kombat parody for Classic Mac OS in which the combatants are squirrels. Built by John Butler and published by Monkey Farm Software, it ships eleven characters across five interactive arenas, with one-on-one, two-on-two, practice, and tournament modes plus an in-game tutorial.

Gameplay

Each squirrel has four normal moves, four combos, and four signature special moves, against AI opponents pitched at three difficulty levels. A point-based scoring layer rewards combo finishes, and the engine claims real-time physics with optional blood spray to complete the homage.

Modes

Solo players can drill in practice, brawl one-on-one, or grind through a tournament ladder. Two-on-two team play lets a friend take the second controller for tag fights in the same five arenas.

Presentation

The game ships over a thousand frames of sprite animation, an upbeat soundtrack, and what the readme calls hilarious sound effects, all rendered in the chunky color palette typical of late-1990s Mac shareware action titles.

System and distribution

Squirrel Kombat is a 2 MB PowerPC build for System 7.0 through Mac OS 9, distributed as a .sit archive with a registration serial. It runs cleanly under SheepShaver and under Classic when OS 9 is the startup disk.