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| The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle | |
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 North American NES box art | |
| Developer | Kemco |
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| Platforms | NES,Famicom Disk System,Game Boy |
| Release | Famicom Disk System
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| Genre | Puzzle |
| Mode | Single-player |
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, also known as simplyBugs Bunny, is a 1989puzzle video game developed byKemco for theNintendo Entertainment System andGame Boy. It is the first puzzle game in Kemco'sCrazy Castle series.
Both the NES and Game Boy versions areBugs Bunny reskins of Kemco'sRoger Rabbit[a] for theFamily Computer Disk System andMickey Mouse[b] for the Game Boy. TheBugs Bunny version would be released in Japan in 1997 throughBugs Bunny Collection[c], a Game Boy compilation containing this game and its 1991 sequelThe Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2.
Each version of the game features different cartoon characters based on their respective titles:Bugs Bunny,Roger Rabbit, orMickey Mouse. The object of the game is to go through a series of rooms collecting items to advance to higher levels while avoiding related cartoon characters.
While presented in aside-scroller format,Crazy Castle differs from standard side-scrollers such asSuper Mario Bros. in that Bugs Bunny does not have the ability to jump; therefore, only by taking different routes can Bugs avoid enemies. Some of the levels haveboxing gloves, invincibility potions, safes, crates, flower pots, or ten thousand-pound weights that can be used against the enemies in the game. As a result, the game has a "puzzle-solving" atmosphere.
Players score 100 points for every carrot with the last one in each floor giving the player an extra life, 100 points for every enemy defeated using invincibility bottles, 500 points per enemy using boxing glove, and 1000 points per enemy that gets hit with heavy objects. Because mostNES game cartridges lacked the ability to save, passwords can be used to start at a certain level in this game.
Honey Bunny has been kidnapped byWile E. Coyote,Yosemite Sam,Daffy Duck, andSylvester the Cat. Bugs Bunny must travel through 60 levels (80 in the Game Boy version) in order to save her. To get past each level, Bugs must collect all 8 carrots in each level.
There are four minions - Sylvester, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and Yosemite Sam, each with their own unique movement patterns. However, the Sylvester character has three variations - two gray, one green and one pink, Daffy has two variations, one being dark gray and one brown, and Yosemite Sam being either in blue or brown. The three variations of Sylvester all have different AI, but the different variations of Daffy and Sam do not.
The North American NES game is a modified version of the Japan-exclusive Family Computer Disk System title,Roger Rabbit. Roger Rabbit is the game's playable character, all the villains areWho Framed Roger Rabbit-related, and hearts are collected.[2][3][4] Due toCapcom owning the rights to develop and publish Disney film-based video games, as well asLJN already having publishedRare'sown video game adaptation of the film,[5][6] Kemco decided to use Bugs Bunny, due to him and Roger both being rabbits, making it easier for Kemco to modify theRoger Rabbit game and release it outside Japan asThe Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle. For the Game Boy version, Kemco's license to develop and/or publish video games based onWho Framed Roger Rabbit became outdated; however, they still had the license to create Disney-based video games, which they used to createMickey Mouse for Game Boy.[2][3][4] An early beta version of the game shows the working title asBugs Bunny Fun House.[7] In 1997, Kemco released the Game Boy version along withThe Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2 in one cartridge under the nameBugs Bunny Collection.[8]
The game has spawned three sequels, includingThe Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2,Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 3,Bugs Bunny in Crazy Castle 4 and a spin-off game,Woody Woodpecker in Crazy Castle 5.[9][10]
The Game Boy Japanese version,Mickey Mouse, has spawned four sequels, includingMickey Mouse II,Mickey Mouse III: Balloon Dreams,Mickey Mouse IV: The Magical Labyrinth, andMickey Mouse V: The Magical Stick (later known asMagic Wands).[2] Other games published by Kemco with Mickey Mouse include the Japanese version of the unrelated gameMickey's Chase, originally fromCapcom.
The NES version ofBugs Bunny Crazy Castle was prominently featured in anAngry Video Game Nerd episode of the same name, which was released on August 5, 2009.[11] It was featured again in the 2021 feature film,Space Jam: A New Legacy for a few brief moments, where a youngLeBron James is given a Game Boy with the game inside it.[12]
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