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Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage(JP) is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game released in 1994. It's a game based on the Looney Tunes cartoon characters.
Plot[]
Bugs Bunny traverses through many familiar locales from his classic cartoons, outsmarting his many foes, all the while a despicable animator (eventually revealed to be Daffy Duck) is trying to rub him out.
Gameplay[]
The goal of the game is to guide Bugs who is trapped by Daffy Duck in a painting and has to traverse through various stages based on old Looney Tunes shorts. Bugs can jump, dive into holes, and attack by either jumping, kicking, pieing, or perform a spin attack that drains his health which is in the form of a carrot. He can regain his health by finding carrots which become scarce as the game progresses as well as items that either stun or kill enemies in one hit. The game features characters such as Elmer Fudd, Marvin the Martian, Yosemite Sam, the Tasmanian Devil, and Wile E. Coyote. Many of whom function as a boss towards the end of a level. The levels vary from simply going left to right to making your way down while avoiding enemies who become harder to defeat such as pigs who harm Bugs with various projectiles coming from their slingshots, robots who will electrocute Bugs if he gets too close, and black cats that can cause Bugs to get crushed by various objects such as safes and horses due to superstition if he crosses their path. In some levels, you have to learn how to out think and out maneuver the boss such as Toro the Bull from Bully For Bugs and Taz while also figuring out how to damage them.
In the final level, Bugs has to spill all of the paint Daffy uses while avoiding his 3 alter egos. After spilling all of the paint Bugs then has to defeat Drip-Along Daffy if all the paint hasn't been spilled or Robin Hood Daffy if all the paint was spilled as well as avoid Duck Dodgers who can't be defeated at all and can kill Bugs in one hit with his laser blaster.
The credits play, but there's tons of dynamite there. After the credits finish rolling, Daffy pops up and says, "You're despicable!" The "That's All Folks" title card appears and an explosion shakes the camera.
Reception[]
Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage garnered a highly favorable 4.3-out-of-five review from Nintendo Power, giving much praise to the graphics, animation, variety of level types and audio and writing that "Sunsoft uses the Looney Tune license for the maximum effect and fun".
The game currently holds a 75.50% rating on review aggregation website GameRankings.
Trivia[]
The preview screenshot showing Bosko's cameo, which was removed from the final version.
- This game's title comes from a 1955 Bugs Bunny short with the same name, in which Bugs was pestered by a tormenting animator in the same manner that Bugs himself did to Daffy in Duck Amuck two years earlier. However, unlike this game, the antagonistic animator in the short was Elmer Fudd.
- The game was featured on the cover of Nintendo Power V57.
- A preview screenshot for this game, shown in Nintendo Power V55, showed Bosko (the very first Looney Tunes star) as one of the characters in the audience for the bullfight stage. In the finished game, however, Bosko is nowhere to be seen.
External links[]
- Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage at GameFAQs
- Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage at MobyGames