Jack Bros.

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Jack Bros.

Developer(s)	Atlus Software
Publisher(s)	Atlus Co.
Release date(s)	1995
Genre(s)
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Kids to Adults (KA)
Platform(s)	Virtual Boy

Jack Bros. (Jack Bros no Meiro de HI HO in Japan) is a video game released for the Virtual Boy in 1995.

The Jack Bros. are two mascots for the Megami Tensei series. They appear in many of the games, often as silly-seeming opponents and allies. One brother is a snowman called Jack Frost and the other is a pumpkin called Pyro Jack or Jack O'Lantern. In the game there is a third brother, Jack the Ripper, who was renamed Jack Skelton for the U.S. release; strangely, their Megami Tensei spinoff was the first Megami Tensei game officially released in the U.S.

In their Virtual Boy game, the brothers have taken advantage of Halloween to leave the fairy realm and haunt the real world; unfortunately, they have lost track of time, and must now find their way back to fairyland by midnight or be banished from it forever. The game is done in an overhead style similar to the Gauntlet series, three-dimensional Virtual Boy enhancements and monochrome restrictions notwithstanding, and is divided into six stages; each stage has a strict time limit, which is reduced every time the player gets hit.