Jazz Jackrabbit (character)

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Jazz Jackrabbit in Diamondus (the original game)

Jazz Jackrabbit is the title character of a series of platform games.

1 Description
2 Games
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Games

[edit] Jazz Jackrabbit

Main article: Jazz Jackrabbit (game)

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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Jazz Jackrabbit Advance

Main article: Jazz Jackrabbit Advance

Jazz Jackrabbit reached the Game Boy Advance in 2003.

[edit] 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, 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.