Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Quick, someone make a documentary about the history of the JJ2 fandom called “Foorunners” while the reference is still valid!

^ Agreed, but why “Foorunners”? I don’t get it.

A very old running joke in the Jazz fandom revolves around an incompetent wizard called Fooruman, the master Foo, who is constantly under threat by his nemesis Unfooruman, and his sidekick Spotty. Thankfully, Unfoo and Spotty are equally incompetent, so they never actually manage to kill him.
There’s also Black Ninja, who helps Fooruman, and is the only sane one, then Octo and Whaler appeared at one point… And Morpheus from the Matrix… It was pretty crazy.

It all started out with a series of race levels called the Foo Races, which then had a series of flash animated cartoons based on it called the Foo Movies. I heard there was going to be a comic aswell, but that never got off the ground. There were also some Foo stories in the War Tavern, and there was a JJ2 singleplayer level pack called “FSP: Rent Collection”(Which happens to be my favourite custom level pack), and a semi-sequel to that called Shade Castle.

A lot of this stuff is pretty hard to find nowadays, but FSP and Shade Castle are here on J2O in the downloads section, and the Foo Movies are here: http://stephenramsay.com/wa/foomovies.php

Anyway, the whole point of this thing is that it was all based around the term “Foo”, which originally was shorthand for “Fool”, but in the Jazz fandom is synonymous with the whole Foo Races, Foo Movies thing. So, I thought it’d be funny to do a history of the JJ2 fandom, and call it “Foorunners” as a pun on this documentary, but also as a reference to the Foo Races, because “Foo runners” sounds like it could refer to people who play the Foo Races.

They don’t seem to keep up much with todays side-scrollers, asides from the big hits (well okay, most of them shown were). They’re in no way dead – sidescrollers just have more of a niche audience.

FPSes may have cast them aside, but so did 3D games in general – they just have more universal appeal.

That’s actually quite hilarious, Robo. Shame on me for missing some of the greatest times of the Jazz fandom :c

Don’t feel too bad — I missed them too. XD

nice to see clint in there, heck, he introduced me to jazz
(through his jazz 1 review, not personally.)

I guess in future Interceptor Entertainment founder Jacob Ostergaard will have pixel art sprites of Sonic the Hedgehog after Super Mario Bros. wall one.I hope in Forerunners 2 The History of the Home Console Side-Scroller Robert Allen and Nick Stadler officially.