The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle

Developer(s)	Kemco
Publisher(s)	Kemco Nintendo
Release Date(s)
Famicom Disk System	JP: February 16, 1989
Famicom Disk System	JP: February 16, 1989
Nintendo Entertainment System	NA: September 1989
Nintendo Entertainment System	NA: September 1989
Game Boy	NA: March 1990  NA: 1998 (Player's Choice)  EU: 1990
Game Boy	NA: March 1990  NA: 1998 (Player's Choice)  EU: 1990
Platform(s)
Classification(s)	This game was labelled as Player's Choice
Genre(s)	Platformer
Rating(s)
ESRB	04

The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle is a game released for the NES and Game Boy based on the popular Looney Tunes characters. The NES version is a rethemed version of the Roger Rabbit game for the Famicom Disk System, while the Game Boy version was originally Mickey Mouse in Japan (both games were changed due to Capcom holding exclusive rights to make Disney video games on Nintendo systems in the US at the time).

Plot

Honey Bunny has been kidnapped by Wile E. Coyote, Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck, and Sylvester. Bugs 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.

Gameplay

The levels in the game have boxing gloves, invincibility potions, safes, crates, flower pots, or ten-pound weights that could be used against the enemies in the game.

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.

Development

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 are Who Framed Roger Rabbit-related, and hearts are collected. Due to Capcom owning the rights to develop and publish Disney film-based video games, as well as LJN already having published Rare's own video game adaptation of the film, Kemco decided to use Bugs Bunny, due to he and Roger both being rabbits, making it easier for Kemco to modify the Roger Rabbit game and release it outside Japan as The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle. For the Game Boy version, Kemco's license to develop and/or publish video games based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit became outdated; however, they still had the license to create Disney-based video games, which they used to create Mickey Mouse for Game Boy. An early beta version of the game shows the working title as Bugs Bunny Fun House. In 1997, Kemco released the Game Boy version along with The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2 in one cartridge under the name Bugs Bunny Collection.

External links

• The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle at GameFAQs
• The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle at MobyGames