Conker the Squirrel
Conker as seen in Conker's Bad Fur Day
First game	Diddy Kong Racing (1997)
Creator(s)	Rare
Voice actor(s)	Chris Seavor

Conker the Squirrel is a fuzzy, anthropomorphic squirrel starring in various video games. The character was created by Rare, which was sold to Microsoft in 2002. Even though he first appeared in Diddy Kong Racing, a spinoff of the Donkey Kong series, Conker is not considered an official character in the Mario universe. The character is stated to be 21 years of age and has an affinity for alcoholic beverages. Conker is voiced by Chris Seavor in Conker's Bad Fur Day and Conker: Live & Reloaded. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (900x1060, 83 KB) Summary Official artwork of Conker the Squirrel. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Diddy Kong Racing is a racing game for the Nintendo 64 developed by Rareware. ... Rare, Ltd is a United Kingdom-based video game development company. ... Chris Seavor (born 1979) is a British game designer and voice actor who has done work on video games. ... Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification or prosopopeia, is the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature, and others. ... Genera Many, see the article Sciuridae. ... Namcos Pac-Man was a hit, and became a universal phenomenon. ... Rare, Ltd is a United Kingdom-based video game development company. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Diddy Kong Racing is a racing game for the Nintendo 64 developed by Rareware. ... Donkey Kong is a video game series created by Shigeru Miyamoto, featuring a gorilla called Donkey Kong. ... Mario ) is a video game character created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and is the official mascot of Nintendo. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Chris Seavor (born 1979) is a British game designer and voice actor who has done work on video games. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... <> </>< /><>://.///.</> < />:://.///.< />< />> Conker: Live & Reloaded is a video game for Microsofts Xbox console, expected to be released on March 15, 2005 as a re-make of the Nintendo 64 game Conkers Bad Fur Day. ...

History

Conker was introduced to the world for the first time at E3 in 1997. His game Conker's Quest was presented by Rareware as another 3D platformer aimed at a young audience. Later the same year, this fact was confirmed with Conker's inclusion in Diddy Kong Racing, for the Nintendo 64, thus promoting his future games. In the spring of 1998, long after the initial release date, Conker's Quest was renamed as Twelve Tales: Conker 64. In 1999, Conker made his first solo debut in Conker's Pocket Tales for Game Boy Color. E³ logo The Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E³, was an annual trade show for the computer and video games industry presented by the Entertainment Software Association. ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Rare, Ltd is a United Kingdom-based video game development company. ... 3D computer graphics are different from 2D computer graphics in that a three-dimensional representation of geometric data is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images. ... Diddy Kong Racing is a racing game for the Nintendo 64 developed by Rareware. ... This section needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... Conkers Pocket Tales was a game released by Rareware in 1999. ... The Game Boy Color , shortened to GBC) is Nintendos successor to the Game Boy and was released on October 21, 1998 in Japan and in November of 1998 in the United States. ...

Before its release, however, the Nintendo 64 game underwent a complete transformation, eventually being released in 2001 as Conker's Bad Fur Day. The game had been almost entirely redesigned, now geared towards a mature audience and featuring sexual content, foul language, drug and alcohol usage, and excessive violence. The game suffered from relatively poor sales, but over time it received a cult following with its unique brand of humour. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other meanings, see Drug (disambiguation). ...

In 2005, a remake was released for the Xbox known as Conker: Live & Reloaded. This featured Bad Fur Day with vastly improved graphics and minor alterations to gameplay. Also included was a never-before-seen multiplayer adaptation that was available for use over Xbox Live. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ... <> </>< /><>://.///.</> < />:://.///.< />< />> Conker: Live & Reloaded is a video game for Microsofts Xbox console, expected to be released on March 15, 2005 as a re-make of the Nintendo 64 game Conkers Bad Fur Day. ... Xbox Live is a subscription-based online gaming service for Microsofts Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles. ...

Appearance

When Conker was introduced in Diddy Kong Racing, he had no gloves (in art only), a blue vest, yellow cape, blue and yellow Converse All Stars shoes, and a flat-looking tail. This appearance was kept for Pocket Tales as well, but was changed in Bad Fur Day; Conker now had gloves, a blue zipper hoodie, and the same shoes, but with the Converse logo removed. In Live and Reloaded, he ditched the gloves (now using his bare hands) and had scruffier fur, giving him a somewhat unshaven appearance. The single player portion of the game was where his appearance changed drastically; his blue hoodie outfit was now more detailed, with yellow patches and more zippers, and the most noticeable change was that he was now wearing green and yellow shorts (similar to Banjo's). Man wearing a hoodie A hoodie (also hoody, bunnyhug), at one time hooded sweatshirt, is a heavy upper-body garment with a hood. ... For other uses, see Shorts (disambiguation). ...

Character biography

Promotional art for Diddy Kong Racing, depicting Conker

Little is known of the character's origins or his early life. He is most likely from South England, due to his East London accent and dialect (for example, he once said "Would someone lend me a fiver," when asking for a five dollar bill). It is known that he had met Diddy Kong on his adventures prior to participating in races with Diddy and his friends, though he was never seen in the games preceding "Diddy Kong Racing." Always kind-hearted and polite, his parents brought him up strictly, teaching him to never touch alcohol, swear or be materialistic. Although he broke these rules later in life, he still seems to retain an initially sweet persona to even the roughest of characters he meets, although he has lately developed the habit of whispering snide comments about them to himself while their backs are turned. Although Conker drinks, commits lewd conduct, and is very greedy, he hardly ever swears. Notably the only truly real swears he's uttered were "fellatio" (albeit out of context), "bitch" and "ass", although the latter two were stated in the context of movie parodies in which the characters from the original movies stated the exact same lines. Image File history File links Conker-Main. ... Image File history File links Conker-Main. ... Diddy Kong Racing is a racing game for the Nintendo 64 developed by Rareware. ... Southern England is defined by the See of Canterbury, which is administered by the Archbishop of Canterbury and it includes the Channel Islands. ... East London (Afrikaans: Oos-Londen, Xhosa: Imonti) is a city in southeast South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province at 32. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of the languages speakers. ... Look up Fiver in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Diddy Kong is a monkey in the Donkey Kong series of video games. ...

After "Diddy Kong Racing", in the story of Conker's Pocket Tales, he had his next adventure retrieving birthday presents from evil acorns.

One day, he met a girl known as Berri, and the two quickly became a couple. Berri was originally depicted as a little, cute brown squirrel, but was later changed into a tall, curvaceous, buxom girl with a valley girl-like personality and grey fur. In Live and Reloaded, Berri's ditzy traits still remain, but she is also depicted as a porn star, or prostitute of sorts, judging by various references in the remake. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A pornographic actor or a porn star is somebody who appears in pornographic movies, live sex shows or peep shows. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ...

Conker and Berri developed an apparently strong relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend, as they soon began living together. Berri began to get frustrated with Conker's habit of constantly staying out late at a bar with his friends, until one fateful night, he never returned to his home.

A very drunk Conker stumbled out in the opposite direction of his home, thus arriving at a completely foreign world, the Fairy Panther Kingdom, which he believed only existed in fairy tales, when he awoke. A series of very bizarre and unfortunate events ensued, until he ultimately found himself reunited with Berri, as well as with a horde of money. He was about to leave with Berri when suddenly she was betrayed and murdered by a mafia boss, Don Weaso, eliminating one of his few true loves in the world. The term Mafia (sometimes referred to as Cosa Nostra, Mafioso, or Black Hand, there are differences), refers to Italian criminal secret societies which developed in Sicily most notably developed in the mid-19th century. ...

At the defeat of the evil Panther King, the people of the world all gathered at a throne room, pushed Conker onto the throne, shoved a crown on his head, and declared him the king. Although Conker had all the money and land in the world, he came to the realization that he didn't want it, and that his only true reason of living was killed before his very eyes.

Conker remained living unhappily as king of this strange world, when one night, his habits came back to him, and he found himself stumbling from the Cock and Plucker Bar, only going the other direction, opposite to the one that lead him to the horrible chain of events. This implies that he ends up going to yet another unusual world, or perhaps, back home, although this has never been further explained.

In Conker's Bad Fur Day, Conker has ten prominent weapons: a pair of MP5-like machine guns (MP5K model,), a shotgun, a set of throwing knives, a bazooka, a frying pan, a sling shot, a baseball bat with nails in it, a chainsaw (in the opening credits),a flamethrower, and urine. In the opening of Conker's Bad Fur Day, he cut up the Nintendo 64 emblem and replaced it with the Rare logo. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The MP5 is a submachine gun, developed by German weapons designer Heckler und Koch (HK) in the 1960s. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This section needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ...

It has been confirmed that the original ending involved Conker committing suicide, by pointing a gun to his head and pulling the trigger, but was scrapped because it did not leave the series open for a sequel^{[citation needed]}. Rather than surrender to US soldiers, the Mayor (Bürgermeister) of Leipzig Germany, committed suicide along with his wife and daughter on April 20, 1945. ...

However, when Chris Seavor (the voice of Conker on the N64 version of Bad Fur Day) was asked about a new Conker game, he said that would be focused on the war between the S.H.C. and the Tediz, and Conker would be killed in the first scene.^{[citation needed]} In an Xbox commercial, he was shown with Banjo, Joanna Dark and Kameo. Despite meeting Banjo in Diddy Kong Racing, he doesn't seem to remember him. Conker seems to have a hobby of cutting up logos with chainsaws and replacing them with the "Rare" logo. In the aforementioned commercial, he used a chainsaw to change the word "Xbox" into Rare. His future, both as a franchise and a character, remains uncertain as of this point. Rares promotional rendering of Kameo. ... Rare, Ltd is a United Kingdom-based video game development company. ... The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ...