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🗓️ 22 January 2021
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0:52.8 | The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle, so developed and published by Chemco, had this license very briefly, |
0:58.8 | so the fun trivia for this one is that it was originally released as a Roger Rabbit in Japan, |
1:05.1 | which makes this game make a little more sense. Yeah, there's some stuff that confuses even |
1:12.8 | just like a child who has seen like 20 Bugs Bunny cartoons. I think this was the first one |
1:20.3 | of these on here I actually remember playing. I think it was, I actually recall getting very far in |
1:26.5 | it really and as a little kid and because I just remember the satisfaction of like I'd only ever |
1:33.1 | beaten like Super Mario Brothers through warp pipes and all that and so even getting to like level 70 |
1:40.4 | or whatever and Crazy Castle felt I felt a certain sense of achievement that is stuck with me to |
1:45.8 | this day. But then when I watched this vlog, I was like, oh, what was I playing? It's a cheap and |
1:52.0 | ugly game and I know there are some Crazy Castle fans out there. The series had like a little bubble |
1:56.7 | that went on for a bit, but this game, a lot of kids played it at the time. 89 was a huge year |
2:02.9 | for the NES. This was the only Looney Tunes game, so a lot of kids played it. I rented it. |
2:06.9 | And what I think makes this a not fun experience for me is that Bugs Bunny is such a like a dynamic |
2:12.7 | and assertive and proactive character with goals. And in this game, like Bugs is so helpless, like |
2:20.7 | there is one item you can use to attack once if you pick it up. And the entire game is spent |
2:26.0 | running away from other characters and ducking into doors and pipes. And randomly, sometimes you |
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