Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout

[7800Lover]

Who here remembers this game from Kemco-Seika released for the NES around 1990 for the NES?

 

It was made to coincide with the 50th birthday of Warner Brothers cartoon star, pop culture icon, and role model to many impressionable children, Bugs Bunny. The story of the game involved Bugs getting a birthday bash in his honor. This wouldn't be much of a game if Bugs could just go to his party. The other Looney Tunes - Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester, etc. - are steamed that Bugs is getting a party while nobody ever gave parties in their honor. So they plan to stop Bugs.

 

It was a Mario-type platformer. Instead of coins, you collected carrots which could be used in bonus rounds in between levels to win extra lives. Instead of fire flowers and stars, you had a mallet to hit enemies with. Rather than Goombas, Koopa Troopas, etc, you took on enemies called "Contraptions" in the manual. Some of these were creatures like Stoplight Worms, Jumping Telescopic Bullet Sprinklers, and even evil soap bubbles (!) and they were all out to get you. At the end of almost every level, you took on a Looney Tunes character that you had to get past (in the case of Daffy Duck) or fight off like Tweety, Elmer, Sylvester, and so on. Interestingly enough, Porky Pig was featured on the game's cover but doesn't appear in the game.

 

The ending was a twist. When you beat the last boss, Taz, Bugs makes it to his party...only to find the other Tunes crew waiting for him there. Apparently, these guys were in on it the whole time. Can ya beat that?

 

Who here has played this game? I have and I beat it. It's quite fun and I did like it better than Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle.

[Pong]

I played it, I hated it.

 

My opinion summed in 6 words.

 

All my sentences are 6, too!

 

Hey, can someone rep this, please?

[fiddlepaddle]

I much prefer crazy castle, even though it's pretty simple, and the levels (100, I think?) are too easy once you've played it for awhile. I like the music better, too. The control in BB seems more sluggish to me.

[PsychoKittyNet]

Have it, it's ok, just way too easy.

[high voltage]

yeah I played it. It was easy, but aren't most Nes games?

[StanJr]

Own and have beaten them both. Pretty simple little games, both fun to play, but ultimately not top shelfers.

[The_Laird]

One of my favourite AVGN episodes is about this game

[Crazy Climber]

I much prefer crazy castle, even though it's pretty simple, and the levels (100, I think?) are too easy once you've played it for awhile. I like the music better, too. The control in BB seems more sluggish to me.

I had Crazy Castle back in the day, got it for my Birthday one year. My Mom was usually pretty good about getting me games that didn't suck but she missed the mark and was suckered into shovelware with a bugs bunny cover for this one. I tried to like it since it was a gift and she knew I loved looney toones but I just didn't like it, the fact that you couldn't jump drove me absolutely nuts

[Pong]

One of my favourite AVGN episodes is about this game

Crazy Castle is now on YouTube. Want a look?

[Rex Dart]

Yeah, I remember renting this one as a kid & enjoying it, but not enough to rent again. It's not a terrible platformer, especially for the time it was released, but it doesn't hold up too well today. Played Crazy Castle too... that one was pretty fun. Good & difficult platform-puzzler.

[PAC MAN FEVER]

I thought the game was decent