Killer Bees!

Killer Bees! is an action game in which the player takes on the role of a swarm of bees. The goal of each round is to sting all five of the robots known as Beebots that wander the stage until each one turns into a gravestone. Also wandering the arena are enemy bee swarms which spawn over time from portals on all sides of the arena.

If the player comes into contact with one of these swarms, they lose some of their bees until all twelve bees from their swarm are gone and the game ends. The player swarm has access to the bug zapper, a laser beam that covers a horizontal stripe of the screen and destroys any enemy swarm in its path. The bug zapper can only be used once but recharges every time a Beebot gets stung to death.

Killer Bees! was designed and programmed by Robert S. Harris, also known as Bob Harris or RoSHa. Harris was a former Milton Bradley employee.

), formerly known as Magnavox, in 1981 along with fellow Milton Bradley employee and returning Odyssey² programmer, Sam Overton. He became part of a team dedicated to developing Odyssey² games known as the Odyssey Software Development Group or Odyssey West. Although other Odyssey West programmers helped test the game, Harris ultimately had full creative control over the project. It was his second Odyssey² game following Nimble Numbers Ned!