Jazz Jackrabbit

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Jazz Jackrabbit is a platform game produced by Epic MegaGames (currently known as Epic Games). It was released in 1994 for the PC. Jazz Jackrabbit was created by Cliff Bleszinski and Arjan Brussee, and inspired by classic console games such as Super Mario Bros., Mega Man, and especially the fast-paced Sonic the Hedgehog. As a result, its console-style vibrant graphics and speedy gameplay made it somewhat novel as a PC game. PC Format magazine named Jazz Jackrabbit "Arcade Game of the Year", and it was popular enough to spawn two sequels, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and the Game Boy Advance game Jazz Jackrabbit. Storyline Three thousand years after the events of Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare", the enmity between tortoises and hares continues. Jazz Jackrabbit visits various planets to save Princess Eva Earlong and the rabbits' homeworld, Carrotus, from the megalomaniacal Devan Shell and his army of Turtle Terrorists. The eponymous hero is a bright green rabbit or hare with a red bandana, similar in appearance to (and probably in pastiche or parody of) Raphael from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Although rabbits and hares are zoologically two distinct species, Jazz is referred to as either, as if they were interchangeable. (Interestingly, Chinese astrology also makes no distinction between these two and the cat.[citation needed]) Soundtrack The soundtrack was written by Robert A. Allen, a video game music composer who was working for Safari Software in 1994, whose games where

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