30 years of Jazz Jackrabbit

Posted:: 1 Aug 2024 at 07:31
Source:: Google Groups

Fasten your seatbelts for the ride of your life! JAZZ JACKRABBIT is coming towards you at light speed, and this little bunny carries a big gun. The evil turtle emperor Devan Shell has rabbitnapped the beloved princess Eva Earlong. Now he’s swiping all the goodies in the galaxy to support his plot of Galactic Rabbit Destruction! Lead the speedy Jazz on a wild treasure hunt spanning enormous areas jam-packed with major danger!
Jazz features ULTRA-FAST scrolling 256 color graphics, ROCKING Digital Audio with Surround Sound, and WHITE-HOT action from Epic MegaGames! Look out Sonic, this is one tough little bunny!

August 1st 1994 brought the world the shareware version of Jazz Jackrabbit: “Epic’s largest production ever, and it’s a very big, cool, high quality game.” It must be something special if we’re all still here, huh folks?

The Jazz Duelists’ Challenge is hosting a Jazz-1-themed event in a few hours, but don’t let that be the only way you engage with Jazz Jackrabbit today. :)

I’ll rehash the links from last time, though a few have changed:

Buy Jazz 1 from GOG (with lots of exclusive bug fixes to the original game)
Jazz Jackrabbit shareware
Holiday Hare 1994 Freeware
Holiday Hare 1995 Freeware
Jazz 1 emulated in your browser, including usermade levels

Open-Source remake of Jazz 1 for lots of platforms
Soundtrack
Speedrun videos
Most popular planets
Most of the sprites (and sounds )

Jazz 1 editing utilities: J1E, JJ1MOD, J1LES

Jazz 1 tilesets converted for use in Jazz 2
Jazz 1 shareware ported to Jazz 2
Jazz 1 shareware recreated from scratch using normal Jazz 2 tilesets
Unfinished, more extreme version of the same
Run Jazz 1 levels directly inside Jazz 2

- Violet CLM