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Encyclopedia > Jazz Jackrabbit (character)
Jazz Jackrabbit in Diamondus (the original game)
Jazz Jackrabbit in Diamondus (the original game)

Jazz Jackrabbit is the title character of a series of platform games. In-game screenshot of Jazz Jackrabbit. ... Platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre characterized by jumping to and from suspended platforms. ...

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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. He is defined as a cross of Rambo and Bugs Bunny. 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 Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world. ... Jack rabbit and Jackrabbit redirect here. ... Rambo is a saga of popular action films starring Sylvester Stallone, based on the characters created by David Morrell in his novel First Blood. ... Bugs Bunny is an Academy Award-winning, street-smart, anthropomorphic, gray rabbit who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros. ...


Games

Jazz Jackrabbit

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

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. Jazz Jackrabbit 2 title screen, showing Jazz and Spaz. ... Gathering of Developers (aka God Games and Gathering) was an American videogame publisher based in Dallas, TX (and then later Austin, TX) founded by a number of independent game developers. ...


Jazz Jackrabbit Advance

Jazz Jackrabbit reached the Game Boy Advance in 2003. Jazz Jackrabbit Advance is a platform game developed by Game Titan. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


Other games

Main article: Jazz Jackrabbit 3

Jazz Jackrabbit 3 is 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 Jackrabbit 2) into a three-dimensional Carrotus to save his children and remove any chaos Devan brought along the way. Jazz Jackrabbit 3 title screen Jazz Jackrabbit 3 (alternatively called Jazz Jackrabbit 3D or simply Jazz3D) was to be the third installment of the popular PC game series, Jazz Jackrabbit. ... Epic Games, also known as Epic and formerly as Epic MegaGames, 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/crossover theme also seen in Tyrian, which referred to their previous starship-piloting game Solar Winds, as well as a reference to One Must Fall: 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 his feature film Taxi Driver. ... A fictional crossover occurs when two or more otherwise separated fictional characters, stories, settings, universes, or media meet and interact with each other. ... Tyrian 2000 main menu Tyrian is a video game which was developed by Eclipse Productions (later World Tree Games) and published in 1995 by Epic Megagames. ... A solar wind is a stream of particles (mostly high-energy protons ~ 500 keV) which are ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star (in the case of a star other than the Earths Sun, it may be called a stellar wind instead). ...


See also

Bucky OHare and crew in the comic book (art by Michael Golden) Bucky OHare was created by comic writer Larry Hama in the late 1970s. ...

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
  • Jazz Jackrabbit Series at MobyGames

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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Jazz Jackrabbit (837 words)
Jazz Jackrabbit is a 3'1", 90 lb anthropomorphic green rabbit.
Jazz Jackrabbit was very popular and was named Arcade Game of the Year by PC Format magazine.
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was released in 1998 for the PC, and later for the Macintosh.
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