The king then sends Jazz Jackrabbit, hero of Carrotus, off in search of the princess in the hopes of returning her to safety. In retaliation, he captures Eva Earlong (a hare), princess of Carrotus. When he sets upon the world of Carrotus, he is surprisingly fended off by the citizens of this peaceful planet. Taking place in a galaxy where Tortoises and Hares have battled for centuries, the game sees evil mastermind Devan Shell (a tortoise) hell bent on conquering all of the planets throughout the galaxy. One of the first videogames to bring the popular console-centric genre of the platformer to home PC’s, Jazz Jackrabbit (1994) was first released via DOS, and was then quickly followed by a Windows and Mac port in the following two years. Read on to see what the fuss was all about! What’s Jazz Jackrabbit you ask? Well, I’ll have you know, he’s the coolest Space Jackrabbit to ever be featured in a video game. Long before Unreal Tournament and Gears of War, Cliff Beskinski got his start at Epic Megagames working on a platformer known as Jazz Jackrabbit.
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