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Encyclopedia > Jazz Jackrabbit
Jazz Jackrabbit
Jazz Jackrabbit

Jazz Jackrabbit is the title character of a series of platform games. In-game screenshot of Jazz Jackrabbit. ... A screenshot of the original Donkey Kong. ...

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Description

Jazz Jackrabbit is a 3'1", 90-pound anthropomorphic green rabbit. Strictly speaking, his name implies that he is a hare, but "hare" and "rabbit" are used interchangeably in the game. He comes from the planet Carrotus, and is usually referred to as Jazz. Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification or prosopopeia, is the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature, and others. ... Genera Pentalagus Bunolagus Nesolagus Romerolagus Brachylagus Sylvilagus Oryctolagus Poelagus The bane of Australian farmers - the wild rabbit An old rabbit trap Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae, found in many parts of the world. ... Species Many, see text Hares and jackrabbits belong to family Leporidae, and mostly in genus Lepus. ...


Games

Jazz Jackrabbit

Main article: Jazz Jackrabbit Jazz Jackrabbit title screen Jazz Jackrabbit is a platform game produced by Epic MegaGames, now known as Epic Games. ...


The first Jazz Jackrabbit game was released in 1994. The shareware edition was extremely popular and the game was named Arcade Game of the Year by PC Format. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... PC Format is a computer magazine published in the United Kingdom and South Africa by Future Publishing. ...


Jazz Jackrabbit 2

Main article: Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Jazz Jackrabbit 2 title screen, showing Jazz and Spaz. ...


A sequel was released in 1998. Despite moderate success in Europe, it was the first game Gathering of Developers, the U.S. publishers, ever lost money on. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Gathering Of Developers (aka GOD games and The Gathering) is an American videogame publisher based on Dallas, TX, established to serve as a friendly publisher for independent development companies. ...


Jazz Jackrabbit Advance

Main article: Jazz Jackrabbit Advance Jazz Jackrabbit Advance is a platform game developed by Game Titan. ...


Jazz Jackrabbit reached the Gameboy Advance in 2003. It was controversial among fans, owing to the changes made to the franchise. The Game Boy Advance is a best-selling handheld. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Other games

Jazz Jackrabbit 3D was an abortive project by World Tree Games. The game was cancelled in 2000 when Epic Games failed to find a publisher. The game's plot had Jazz entering Devan's dimensional machine (a modified version of the time machine used in Jazz 2) into a three-dimensional Carrotus to save his children and remove any chaos Devan brought along the way. This article is about the year 2000. ... Epic Games, formerly known as Epic MegaGames and also known as Epic, is a computer game development company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. ...


Jazz, Eva, and Devan made a cameo in One Must Fall: 2097, also by Epic, in single-player tournament mode. Each remote-piloted a fighting mech that was suited to their individual personalities. This was in keeping with the Epic Megagames inter-universe cameo appearance theme also seen in Tyrian, which referred to their previous starship-piloting game Solar Winds, as well as a reference to OMF:2097. One Must Fall: 2097 screenshot showing Crystal (in the Jaguar robot) fighting Jean-Paul (in the Shadow robot). ... Is a last name. ... Martin Scorsese appears briefly in an uncredited role in this scene from Taxi Driver, the first scene in which Cybill Shepherd appears. ... Tyrian is a computer game released in 1995 by Epic Megagames. ...


Jazz Jackrabbit has also appeared in a number of fan-made games.


External links

  • Jazz 2 Online (J2O), the hub of the Jazz Jackrabbit community
  • JazzJackrabbit Community Forums (JCF), the message board associated with Jazz 2 Online
  • Earlong Royal Encyclopedia (ERE), the wiki associated with Jazz 2 Online
  • Haze's Hideout
  • DOS Games Archive | Jazz Jackrabbit

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Download Jazz Jackrabbit 2 - Free DOS Games Downloads (1004 words)
And for Spazz Jackrabbit he has his karate kick and he can run faster than Jazz (my boyfriend likes his character better than Jazz’s.) I get a real kick out of the weapons that they get to use and how you can easily switch them just by using the number keys.
The hero, Jazz rabbit, or his mate Spaz rabbit if one prefers to choose at the options panel, will follow paths throughout the game, collecting items that will be advantageous for the character to have.
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a really exciting game and especially suitable for those seeking games of adventures.
Review: Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (895 words)
Into this august company, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, a sequel to a game that was never released on the Mac OS, is a worthy title that uses most of the standard mainline 2-D platform games.
Since Jazz is a game of conventions, what gamers most need to know is where Jazz truly excels at the conventions of the genre and where it fails to live up to snuff.
Jazz's main way of dispatching bad guys is supposed to be the use of his various gun weapons, which you switch among by the number keys.
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