Live from my house: The Cabela's Adventure Starts Here tour

Activision always asks me, "Justin, what do we have to do to get you to cover games in our popular Cabela's hunting series?" I never imagined, when I demanded the company drive a trailer with a fake bighorn sheep to the hospital parking lot directly behind my house, that I'd be taken so literally.

So, against all odds, here's a video tour of the Adventure Starts Here trailer, coming to a parking lot somewhere near you. Oh, and you'll also get a look at the new Kinect controller for Cabela's Hunting Party and some gameplay footage from Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai.

Wanna see the trailer for yourself? We've got a full list of stops after the break.

Sept. 30 – Walmart 6777 Clinton Hwy Knoxville, TN 37912
Oct. 1 – Walmart 8445 Walbrook Dr Knoxville, TN 37923
Oct. 2 – Walmart 3051 Kinzel Way Knoxville, TN 37924
Oct. 7 – Walmart 8520 N Beach St Fort Worth, TX 76244
Oct. 8 – Cabela's 12901 Cabelas Drive Fort Worth, TX 76177
Oct. 9 – Cabela's 1 Cabela Drive Allen. TX 75002
Oct. 14 – Walmart 2875 W Mrtin Luther K Fayetteville, AR 72704
Oct. 18 – Cabela's 2424 US Hwy 6 & 50 Grand Junction, CO 81505
Oct. 19 – Cabela's 2502 W Grand Terrace Pky. Lehi, UT 84043
Oct. 21 – Walmart 2425 E 2nd St Reno, NV 89502
Oct. 22 – Cabela's 8650 Boomtown Road Verdi, NV 89439
Oct. 23 – Walmart 4855 Kietzke Ln Reno, NV 89509
Nov. 5 – Cabela's 9380 W. Glendale Ave. Glendale, AZ 85305
Nov. 6 – Walmart 1825 W Bell Rd Phoenix, AZ 85023
Nov. 11 – Walmart 5017 W Highway 290 Austin, TX 78735
Nov. 12 – Cabela's 15570 IH 35 Buda, TX 78610
Nov. 13 – Walmart 710 E Ben White Blvd Austin, TX 78704
Nov. 17 – Walmart 4145 Dowlen Rd Beaumont, TX 77706
Nov. 19 – Cabela's 2200 W. Cabela's Parkway Gonzales, LA 70737
Nov. 20 – Walmart 308 N Airline Hwy Gonzales, LA 70737
Nov. 26 – Walmart 210 Cobb Pkwy S Marietta, GA 30060
Nov. 27 – Walmart1801 Howell Mill Rd NW Atlanta, GA 30318

Reader Comments (33)

Cabela's and Walmart! Wooooooo-weeeee!

@hjfghdfgs

WHY U NO SHUT UP??

lol, they're not even trying to venture outside of their target demographic. They go as far West as Nevada and Arizona and then back to the South. Do they think that coastal states are afraid of guns?

@SisypheanLife
i know right, it's actually legal in CA to carry a hand gun out in public... as long as it's holstered unloaded and you have a permit to carry said gun openly

@peternography Actually, "open carry" (as opposed to "concealed carry") is legal in most (all?) states.

And you don't need any special permit to open carry. However, it does need to be unloaded.

http://www.californiaopencarry.org/CaliforniaOpenCarry.pdf

@End User

I thought you could do conceal carry and the gun can then be loaded, forget who told me that.

Let it be known that Justin is a man of his word. Now ask Bethesda to fly a dragon into that parking lot for Skyrim please.

wow i've never been interested in any cabela's game up till now.
wtf? their not coming to California, we hunt here too we throw golf balls at the coyotes wen they sneak in the courses.

So many Wal-Marts, so little time. This must look totally legit in a parking lot though.

This is quite possibly the best laid out tour of all time. They really know their demographics.

Big Buck Safari is an amazing game at the bar. Once they replicate that, I'm all over it.

@Truant
These aren't for game systems, but:
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=31066
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=31124
Not out yet, though. Presumably later this year (the ratings are from earlier this year).

LOL WALMART and look at the locations... XD

that guy didn't make me want this game, he made it look like you have to over act to even make it sound remotely interesting... whats that? i need a add on peripheral to take full advantage... yeah, no thanks.

Worth noting that they've been on tour for a couple of months already, so it's not an all-encompassing list. (Note how the first date is tomorrow.)

Marketing Win!!!

I pretty much did a spit take for the length of the vid.

Thanks Justin

I really want to make fun of this...but it looks fun! I used to dig the Cabela hunting games they had in some bars. Good way to blow some time drinking with a buddy. I've just always ignored these, but they might make a fun party game.

I honestly didn't know people bought these games. Wow.

Cabela's Katamari? So do you want my money now, or when the game releases?

@Assmar "You must survive various terrain as the Prince rolls up objects around you into a swarming mass that gets bigger and bigger. If you're not careful, YOU will join the ball! Traverse the dangers in your path as you hunt the ultimate prize: The King of All Cosmos!"

Wow. Real authentic hand-to-hand cougar combat.

And I was mistakenly led to believe that American hunters mostly sit around waiting in trees until the nearest four-legged mammal appears within shooting range. How wrong I have been.

I have been a bug fan of the console Cabela's games for years. I also am the only one I know who ever buys the games. The latest one, Big Game Hunter 2012, is good but not the high point for the series. BGH2010 marked the shift from simulator hunting game to a more arcade-y hunting game and was alos the pinnacle of the series. BGH2012 suffers from having Move support and the Top Shot Elite support forced upon the game.

Let me guess

It's a shooter..

If nothing died in the making of this video, I'll be grossly disappointed.

I hope mega64 does another vid

@xiaojiemff
What.... what is that even supposed to be?

Are they pushing the game or the Top Shot guns? I couldn't tell!! Also -he was too busy fiddlefukking with the Top Shot controller that he forgot to not suck. ;P

Justin, I'm moving to Richwood in a couple weeks - we'll get together and play some banjos. Sound good? Great!

Wow, that truck really kicks ass.

the perspective shifting on the kinect could make the 2d/3d VR display illusion thing ala. johnny chung lee pretty amazing.
not that i own a kinect, but liberal application of perspective shifting to create that 'virtual window' might be a reason to buy one.

and for anyone who doesn't know what i'm talking about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw&t=2m28s

"lol, rednecks"

Actually a semi-realistic survival sim would be really cool.

We should thank Red Stevens. The heroic man who murdered Bambi's family. Disney is actually re-evaluating its classic coming of age deer tale, and attempting to update it for a new generation.

This time from Red's perspective. He just wanted to feed his family.

Coming to Blu-Ray and DVD 2012.

Bargains...too great!

Coug, sure.

Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai

Live from my house: The Cabela's Adventure Starts Here tour

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