What is it?
There are some similarities between this game and Mikan. Both are shoot-'em-ups for Windows 3.1, of which there are not many. Both are somewhat scurrilous in their theme: In Mikan, you shoot oranges, in Killer Bees, you spray insects with a can. Both are from 1995, both run in 256 colors, both require a fairly fast computer (in the context of Windows 3.1, a Pentium is fairly fast), and the size of the archive is about the same.
This, however, is where the similarities end. Mikan is a vertically scrolling shooter, as they dominated the arcades from the mid-80s to the mid-90s. You can move your little ship up and down as well as left and right. Killer Bees is a fixed shooter, you can move the can from side to side only.
Overall, Killer Bees plays slower. It is easier to stay alive, at least until the screen gets really crowded. The bees seem to avoid collisions with your can, the bullets are slow and not very numerous. What makes the game challenging is that it's not so easy to hit your targets either. The bees move in rather irregular patterns, and the gasses emenating from your can aren't all that fast.
Killer Bees is controlled completely with the mouse (move the mouse to move the can, click to shoot). I preferred this over Mikan's keyboard interface.
Ron Paludan had, in the late 80s, converted at least two of Paul Norman's Commodore 64 games to DOS, Super Huey II and Navcom-6, and written the flight simulator War Eagles.
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