 Jazz Jackrabbit title screen Jazz Jackrabbit is a platform game produced by Epic MegaGames, now known as Epic Games. It was released in 1994 for the PC. Image File history File links Information_icon. ...
Titlescreen from Jazz Jackrabbit. ...
Platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre characterized by jumping to and from suspended platforms. ...
Epic Games, also known as Epic and formerly as Epic MegaGames, is a computer game development company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
One of the first PCs from IBM - the IBM PC model 5150. ...
Inspired by classic console games such as Super Mario Bros., Mega Man, and especially the fast-paced Sonic the Hedgehog, the game was the brainchild of Cliff Bleszinski and Arjan Brussee. At the time, the game's vibrant graphics and speedy gameplay were something of a novelty on the PC. Named Arcade Game of the Year by PC Format magazine, Jazz Jackrabbit was popular enough to have a sequel, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, released in 1998. Computer and video games A screenshot of Tetris for the Nintendo Game Boy A console game (better known as a video game) is a form of interactive multimedia used for entertainment, which consists of a moveable image displayed on a screen that is usually controlled and manipulated using a handheld...
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Cliff Bleszinski, frequently known online as CliffyB, is a lead game designer for the successful game development company Epic Games in Raleigh. ...
Arjan Brussee is a Dutch computer game programmer. ...
One of the first PCs from IBM - the IBM PC model 5150. ...
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Jazz Jackrabbit 2 title screen, showing Jazz and Spaz. ...
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Storyline 3000 years after the events of Aesop's The Tortoise and the Hare, the enmity between tortoises and hares continues. The game saw Jazz Jackrabbit, a hybrid of Bugs Bunny and Rambo, visiting a number of planets in order to rescue Eva Earlong and save Carrotus from the villainous Devan Shell, a megalomaniacal turtle. Aesop, as depicted in the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel. ...
The Tortoise and the Hare or The Hare and the Tortoise is a fable attributed to Aesop. ...
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Species Many, see text Hares and jackrabbits belong to family Leporidae, and mostly in genus Lepus. ...
Jazz Jackrabbit in Diamondus (Jazz Jackrabbit 1) Jazz Jackrabbit is the title character of a series of platform games. ...
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Jazz Jackrabbit is very heavily influenced by Sega's mascot. The game contains many very recognizable elements from the Sonic games, including: Sonic the Hedgehog ) is a video game character and the protagonist of a series of video games released by Sega, as well as numerous spin-off comics, cartoons and books. ...
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- Emphasis on speed (which is less in the game's later levels).
- Destroyable monitors that contain powerups.
- A shield power-up that protects Jazz from harm, a shoe powerup for speed, and an invincibility powerup which engulfs Jazz in stars.
- Sign-posts at the end of levels, with the villain's face, which, when flipped, displays the hero's face.
- A 3-D mini-game (Also called a bonus level or a special stage), heavily borrowing aspects from Sonic CD.
- Some levels contain tubes which Jazz can jump into to be taken quickly to another part of the level.
- Chinese Translation is similar with Sonic. Jazz Jackrabbit is called "光速免崽子" (A rabbit in the speed of light) and SONIC game is "音速小子" (A boy in the speed of sound).
- Differently coloured springs that launch the character towards the sky, when stepped on.
- Similiarities between the looks of the first levels of Jazz Jackrabbit and Sonic The Hedgehog 2; Diamondus and Emerald Hill Zone.
- levels such as medivo, marbelara, & pezrox are largely based on marble zone from the first sonic game
- twin megabattleships is very similiar to death egg zone
The word monitor is a Latin term for warner or suggester. ...
Upon contact with this Super Mushroom, Mario earns 1000 points and doubles in size In video games, power-ups are objects which add extra abilities to the game character, and/or increase the players score upon being collected. ...
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Sonic the Hedgehog CD or Sonic CD (as it is known in Europe and North America) is a platform game that is still well acclaimed by Sonic fans. ...
Other references - One of the bosses in the CD version's levels is named "Zoonik" and is clearly a hybrid of Sonic and Zool.
- The game's instruction manual, which includes a comic detailing the game's story, shows a character that is obviously supposed to be Sonic, saying: "Someone get my lawyers on the phone!"
- The picture for the "gene machine " episode in the menu features Jazz and another Epic Megagames character - Jill of the Jungle (1992).
- In the game, the name of the computer world Letni is probably a mock on Intel (Letni is Intel spelled backwards).
- large bulkey turtle soldiers "schwarzenguards" are named after arnold scharzenegger. also the picture for "the chase is on" has the soldiers as terminators.
- the intro for the CD version shows jazz going into a phone booth, comming out dressed as superman, then batman & finally wonder woman before he goes into his normal atire
- the giant jazz clone attacks with green flames much like how the hell knight & baron of hell do in the DooM series.
- holidaius's first theme is a mix of various christmass carols, while it's second theme is a semi-remix of silent night.
- candion's theme is a techno remix of "carol of the bells"
- bloxonius is a planet made of lego including lego-men as enemies or shootable objets. one enemy is a raggety ann doll throwing blue balls. BG objects include a pink "epic games bunny" (energizer bunny parody) & a red rabbit doll who was the inspiration for jazz's brother spaz. the theme tune is a hip-hop remix of "Little Drummer Boy"
Zool is a British computer game originally produced for the Amiga by Gremlin Graphics as a rival to Segas Sonic the Hedgehog. ...
Jill of the Jungle is a trilogy of platformer computer games released in 1992 by Epic MegaGames. ...
Episodes and planets Jazz Jackrabbit featured six episodes, each comprising three worlds and one boss level. Each world consisted of two regular levels and a 3D bonus level. Originally, the game was sold on floppy disks, and one could purchase the first three episodes, the final three episodes, or all six at once. A special CD-ROM version was later released, which contained the six original episodes, three completely new episodes and the 1994 Christmas Edition (which was retitled "Holiday Hare"). A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible (floppy) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. ...
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1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday that marks the traditional birthdate of Jesus of Nazareth. ...
Episodes 1-3 1. Turtle Terror
 Jazz Jackrabbit on Diamondus -
- Diamondus
- Tubelectric
- Medivo
2. Ballistic Bunny In-game screenshot of Jazz Jackrabbit. ...
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3. Rabbit's Revenge -
- Fanolint
- Scraparap
- Megairbase
Episodes 4-6 4. Gene Machine -
- Turtemple
- Nippius
- Jungrock
5. The Chase is on -
- Marbelara
- Sluggion
- Dreempipes
6. The Final Clash -
- Pezrox
- Crysilis
- Twin Mega Battleships
Episodes A-C (CD version) A. Outta Dis World -
- Exoticus
- Industrius
- Muckamok
B. Turtle Soup -
- Raneforus
- Stonar
- Deckstar
C. Wild Wabbit -
- Ceramicus
- Deserto
- Lagunicus
Shareware releases Three promotional shareware games were also produced. Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Jazz Jackrabbit: Shareware Edition Released in 1994, the shareware edition consisted of the first episode (Turtle Terror). 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
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- Diamondus
- Tubelectric
- Medivo
Jazz Jackrabbit: Christmas Edition (retitled Holiday Hare for the CD-ROM release) Released in 1994, the Christmas edition featured the three aforementioned Christmas-themed levels. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday that marks the traditional birthdate of Jesus of Nazareth. ...
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Jazz Jackrabbit: Holiday Hare '95 Released in 1995, this second Christmas edition had two new Christmas-themed worlds, each with two levels. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Other Releases OpenJazz is a game engine recreation of Jazz Jackrabbit created by Alister Thomson. Work was started on August 23, 2005, made public on November 28 of the same year, and had its source code released on Christmas Day. It is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux, and there are ports to the Sega Dreamcast, the GP2X, the GP32 the PlayStation Portable and windows mobile Based pocket PC/PDA devices. Game Engine Recreations are engine interpreters for video games that replace the original engine binary that came with the original game. ...
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The GP2X is an open-source, Linux-based handheld video game console and media player created and sold by GamePark Holdings of South Korea. ...
The GP32 (GamePark 32) is a hand held console built by the Korean company GamePark. ...
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JCS'94 is a Level editor for Jazz Jackrabbit. It was started more than two years before the earlier mentioned OpenJazz project. Its latest release was November 2005. The makers of JCS'94 were helpful in resolving some issues in the development of OpenJazz. UnrealEd is the level editor for Epics Unreal series of first-person shooters. ...
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