Jazz Jackrabbit
What with Easter's inextricable link with bunnies, it seemed in order to revisit an old lop eared friend. Jazz Jackrabbit is a side scrolling platform game and one I consider to be DOS shareware gaming at its finest. Who would have thought our friend Jazz would come from the same stable as a Gears of War Nemacyst? Jazz …
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I know exactly where my Gravis pad is- it's next to my Gravis Ultrasound card- but I can't plug either of them into my laptop!
I think I lost the little joystick adaptor it came with though, along with that cute screwdriver that came with my Gravis Joystick (not black but the limited edition transparent version).
It was a different age of PC gaming!
http://www.armchair.mb.ca/~dave/shust/
This was an epic game
I wonder if I can find a copy on the intarwebs (shareware version only, of course. Ahem).
Re: This was an epic game
Jazz Jackrabbit is abandonware, I think - certainly there's been no official release since 1996, and an open source recreation project was put online in 2005.
Of course, if someone wants to do an official re-release or mobile recreation, I'm sure there'll be plenty of folks ready to buy it for the nostalgia value.
Re: This was an epic game
I'm sure I still have a copy of this somewhere. Might have to dig it out.
Re: This was an epic game
I still have the shareware version of the game on one of those shareware compilation CDs that came with my second PC. Too bad I never did get the full version of the game or the sequel.
Never had a PC to play it on,
but screenshots always made me think someone should have told the designer that the three settings for 'Red', 'Green' and 'Blue' in the palette aren't _meant_ to be mutually exclusive...
Nice, but...
Not sure I'd describe the graphics as "innovative". Second shot there bears more than a passing resemblance to: http://images.wikia.com/sonic/images/b/b0/Sonic2HillTop.png
Re: Nice, but...
I would have been more scathing than merely not describing them as innovative. Ditto for the whole game. It was well crafted and fun, but far from innovative in any sense.
I have never heard of this game before so it comes as a cool surprise to find an interesting looking old game I know nothing about.
I must admit, and I'm not just making an obvious joke for once, I thought from the title it would be a Leisure Suit Larry style game with a frisky rabbit chap as the main character rather than a platformer. Jackrabbit sounds to me like a combination of the phrases "at it like rabbits" and "banging like a jack hammer" and of course jazz is an euphemism for porn - guess I just got a dirty mind though!
Today it does sound a bit like
a lady's private accessory that takes batteries. NSFW.
I'm not sure how long that particular design has been rabbiting on.
I think it also had a 3D level
It consisted of a plane with sprites superimposed. They apparently drew the rabit from all sides in all phases of the motion and just put on the right sprite.
Another golden oldie is
One Must Fall...
a fighting game with robots...
Re: Another golden oldie is
Amen to that!
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/one-must-fall-2097/
Destroyed a couple of Gravis Analog Pro joysticks on that game...
(Anyone has a working one to sell?)
Felt really good the first time I took down the entire lineup without a single loss myself.
Then I upped the difficulty and had a REALLY good time... :-)
Only a PC-only gamer would think jazz was good. It borrowed so much from other games and even with that help it just was not as fun as Mario or Sonic.
Here I am, posting to agree with a down-voted comment.
Platform games on the PC were far and few between at this time. We had some Amiga ports, such as Flasback and Zool, plus some homegrown efforts - Jill of the Jungle, and Duke Nukem, but really, consoles were where it was at for platformers. Sonic was smoother, faster and more polished; Jazz even borrowed the fluffy woodland theme!
Don't feel bad though- we had flight sims, racing games over null-modem cable - and we were soon to get Doom : D
If anything, it seems today's console games are all in the 90's PC genre.
Soundtrack!
Don't forget the awesome soundtrack --- 4 channel mod FTW!
On of the levels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2idyeFWdmA
The main title: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zK2sfWvSE
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