Jazz Jackrabbit was a popular 2D platform game developed by Epic Megagames in 1994. In this game you had to control Jazz, a green rabbit that looks like a cross between Rambo and Bugs Bunny.
Are you me? I even kind of miss that old machine with its tan colored monitor and keyboard. I remember owning both this and another really old budget DOS title called Ninja on floppy disk
I got this damn game from one of those budget game collections they sold at Rite Aid, or whatever drug store it was back in the 90s. On that same disc you got Wolfenstein, Doom, Rise of the Triad, and Star Wars: Dark Forces. That was the best $5.00 I ever spent as a child.
@Rerin YL Lol I don't know. It had a ton of small games in directories on the cd. When I was hella young, I always browsed the disk. Look it up on google. type "1000 + great games". It's a yellow cd case one!
I’m 32 years old now, I remember when I was 10 years old in 1995 I remember playing this on my uncles computer when windows 95 was the bomb CD ROM was awesome, memories
I remember this game back in the day. For some reason I could never get it running on my old DOS PC. Maybe it was the shareware copy that I had. This game was literally the "Super Mario" or "Sonic The Hedgehog" for old PC gamers.
Had it on a 486 on MS-DOS, never had an issue except that I also had the shareware, played the few levels until I got them all perfect but then no more new adventures. :(
M O T H E R O F M Y C H I L D H O O D ! ! ! Dude, thanks a lot for bring me these memories!!! When I was a child I always played this videogame on my computer, it was an acer in 1994.
This game is what began PC games slowly becoming more and more colorful than console games. Just thinking that, despite how modern your PC gaming rig is now, you can just go back and play this awesome beast of a game again after all those years and be amazed that it is not an impossibility to play such an oldie. This one is truly the shining gem in the race of MSDOS games that needs to be recognized. The music, atmosphere and everything can make you feel like you grew up with this game, even if you did not. It is in that line of old games that will always be in your childhood without having to be in it at all. It also makes me want to look up more of these old PC games as I bet there are many more like this one that nobody knows about. Makes me want to make gameplays of them so that they are not just buried in the dust forever. Any game as good as Jazz Jackrabbit needs recognition.
+krokeman You forgot to say that VGA mode 13h outputs pictures 70 times per second, not 60 like we have now on many computers +Medachod If you want to play it on your current PC, you can try the DOSBox emulator. Of course you will not get 70FPS, but you will be able to play it (except if you have a faster screen, maybe dosbox supports high framerates ? I don't know). You can also still launch MS-DOS on a current computer, and you'll probably be able to start the game, but sadly you won't have sound ... Or for the best experience, get an old pentium with it's nice little cathode ray tube ^^
The best game I've ever played. The picture of a green rabbit collecting carrots and killing turtles always quite get stucked my mind, but my family had no memory of anything like this when I talked about it, and they laughed at me for this creepy idea. For years, I thought I just made it up in my mind as a kid. But finally, after a quick Google research, I've just found my childhood, and it is slapping me right in the face with memories of pure EPICNESS. And it feels soooo good ! :']
this is the first game I ever played on my first pc, that was back in 1998, the glory period of my life, childhooood, also this music is just.... only those who played it in their childhood can understand this feeling!
My daughter and I played this game when she was around 6 and 7. I will always remember this game as it was a special time we spent together. The best of times.
OMG I thought about this game not long ago and as soon as the music started playing I started singing. I miss those those days. This is my childhood playing on the Acer Aspire computer back in 1995. Cheers to those who live through the 90s
Thanks for uploading this.. I am 29 now. And I played this game when I was a kid on a windows 98 pc dad got for us and my mom would sit beside us and watch us playing. It was her favorite game. Very nostalgic..
Surely one of the most remembered games in my memory. It always feels so nostalgic and makes you want to go back, and have the fun, the feelings, innocence and laid back days of those days. Makes me remember the "i already was happy, and i didn't know it" phrase i read somewhere in a tribute video to the 80's/90's kids media T_T
Ahhh, the sweet memories of childhood :-D This was also my very first CD-ROM game *gulp*... listening to the music and seeing the game again just made my day! Thanks!!!
I absolutely loved this game when I was a kid! I remember Saturday mornings where I'd wake up, eat Pop Tarts while watching The Tick, go play Jazz Jackrabbit on our 486 for hours, then gorge myself on Fruit Roll-Ups and Mondo juice in front of the NES until dinner...then after watching Duckman with my mom, go to bed curled up with my Stimpy doll. Damn, I'm glad I grew up in the 90's, so many great memories :)
I never heard of this game til recently. And I have to admit, I think if Epic had ported this over to Playstation back in the day, it would have given Sonic a run for his Rings.
WOW..!! I loved this game, I finished it many times when I was 8..!! in 1994, I played it in a Acer Aspire color black, big monitor with 15" CRT, pentium proccesor 133 mhz.., windows 95, hard disk with 900Mb 32 MB of memory ram, a great remember, I still have this game and I play it... I can still remember the game called Hoover.. I loved it, you use to go inside of kind of ships and you had to capture the 4 flags of the enemy team.. somebody remebers it..?? even better somebody has it..??
Oh my god. I used to play this all the time as a little kid, and haven't even watched it in several years until now. I'm at the high point of nostalgy right now. Man...
If this was published by Apogee, it could be given new life with current development. But since it was actually published by Epic, we were lucky to get both this and the sequel released on GOG!
My childhood, this game was as fast as Sonic and the special stages was like Sonic CD. The floppy disks as items, hehe, nobody will understand where these come from. I remember this game having no sound and you had to install the Sound Blaster to make it work. I also remember the christmas levels, great memories
oh MAN! He's collecting Floppies! Freaking floppy disks! I still have some. haven't been able to use them in ages though, but OMG. that just goes to show how old this game is. I
Ahh, memories. I remember seeing this in stores but couldn't buy it because A) I had no money on my own because I was 7 years old and B) our current PC was shit.
This awesome game occupied way too much of the weekend during my childhood... I may just be showing my age, but gaming was so much better in the early days!
holy shit i really miss that moments of my childhood, i used to wake up in the morning of every weekend so i was able to play through a long uninterrupted session, however, every time i played my older brother get mad because i didn't know how to start the computer so i had to call him everytime for some help :')
But, you missed all the secret stuff! Including my favorite part, the pet bird! =P Nice play through. I don't think any of us kids ever did it that fast, way back when. Nicely done!
wow i totally forgot about this game, and watching this video brought back everything. i remember never getting everything on those end of the level bonus games and loving the sight of one of those turtle signs
I'm 21 now and I remember playing it when I was 7 on my Win95 PC
Old memories...
same here bruh.....i'm 21 as well
Same here :)
same here :)
Are you me? I even kind of miss that old machine with its tan colored monitor and keyboard. I remember owning both this and another really old budget DOS title called Ninja on floppy disk
hanauarc Same age, same platform, same game. Cheers dude!
Oh man the music. So freaking good!
What are you doing here? xD
Hey xisuma, I watch you're vidoes! Nice job, and keep it up!
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This is the game of my childhood
This and doom for me.
Huge nostalgia factor here.
This. I'm 19, and i remember being like 5 or 6 and playing this =)
griftegrd Im 19 also and I do remember this :)
I got this damn game from one of those budget game collections they sold at Rite Aid, or whatever drug store it was back in the 90s. On that same disc you got Wolfenstein, Doom, Rise of the Triad, and Star Wars: Dark Forces. That was the best $5.00 I ever spent as a child.
I remember that too! The one I had was I think called Tech cd or something like that.
Mine was like "1000+ great games"
@Rerin YL Lol I don't know. It had a ton of small games in directories on the cd. When I was hella young, I always browsed the disk. Look it up on google. type "1000 + great games". It's a yellow cd case one!
Legendary. Exactly how I found wolfenstein after playing doom on an older cousins playstation 1
I’m 32 years old now, I remember when I was 10 years old in 1995 I remember playing this on my uncles computer when windows 95 was the bomb CD ROM was awesome, memories
I remember this being a hard game cause you never see that far ahead.
13 year old comment lol
This was my favorite game ever, wish I could find my Jazz Jackrabbit collect again, would love to give it a go after 14yrs. 😃
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I remember this game back in the day. For some reason I could never get it running on my old DOS PC. Maybe it was the shareware copy that I had. This game was literally the "Super Mario" or "Sonic The Hedgehog" for old PC gamers.
I'd say Jazz Jackrabbit was the Sonic for DOS and Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure was the Mario for DOS.
Had it on a 486 on MS-DOS, never had an issue except that I also had the shareware, played the few levels until I got them all perfect but then no more new adventures. :(
man this really brings back some memories i had almost forgotten about
M O T H E R O F M Y C H I L D H O O D ! ! !
Dude, thanks a lot for bring me these memories!!! When I was a child I always played this videogame on my computer, it was an acer in 1994.
This game is what began PC games slowly becoming more and more colorful than console games. Just thinking that, despite how modern your PC gaming rig is now, you can just go back and play this awesome beast of a game again after all those years and be amazed that it is not an impossibility to play such an oldie.
This one is truly the shining gem in the race of MSDOS games that needs to be recognized. The music, atmosphere and everything can make you feel like you grew up with this game, even if you did not. It is in that line of old games that will always be in your childhood without having to be in it at all.
It also makes me want to look up more of these old PC games as I bet there are many more like this one that nobody knows about. Makes me want to make gameplays of them so that they are not just buried in the dust forever. Any game as good as Jazz Jackrabbit needs recognition.
+Medachod
VGA mode 13h, 320x200 256 colours. No hardware sprites, but fast CPUs did the job.
krokeman Man, I sure wish I could run this game on my current computer. There is absolutely no way to get it to work.
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+Medachod It was the first ever PC game I played!
+krokeman You forgot to say that VGA mode 13h outputs pictures 70 times per second, not 60 like we have now on many computers
+Medachod If you want to play it on your current PC, you can try the DOSBox emulator. Of course you will not get 70FPS, but you will be able to play it (except if you have a faster screen, maybe dosbox supports high framerates ? I don't know).
You can also still launch MS-DOS on a current computer, and you'll probably be able to start the game, but sadly you won't have sound ...
Or for the best experience, get an old pentium with it's nice little cathode ray tube ^^
The best game I've ever played. The picture of a green rabbit collecting carrots and killing turtles always quite get stucked my mind, but my family had no memory of anything like this when I talked about it, and they laughed at me for this creepy idea. For years, I thought I just made it up in my mind as a kid. But finally, after a quick Google research, I've just found my childhood, and it is slapping me right in the face with memories of pure EPICNESS. And it feels soooo good ! :']
I miss that game soo much fun
I miss that music so much!
I'm 33 now and this was my fav PC game back then. This tune brings back so many memories 😎
this is the first game I ever played on my first pc, that was back in 1998, the glory period of my life, childhooood, also this music is just.... only those who played it in their childhood can understand this feeling!
My daughter and I played this game when she was around 6 and 7. I will always remember this game as it was a special time we spent together. The best of times.
one of the best platformers ever.
Devilrose yeah, awesome game :D old memories.
Yeah i loved it.
+Devilrose Not even close. Maybe one of the worst, in both gameplay and aeshetic
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Devilrose Aha... no.
OMG I thought about this game not long ago and as soon as the music started playing I started singing. I miss those those days. This is my childhood playing on the Acer Aspire computer back in 1995. Cheers to those who live through the 90s
Damnit, he's missing all the secrets!
Thanks for uploading this.. I am 29 now. And I played this game when I was a kid on a windows 98 pc dad got for us and my mom would sit beside us and watch us playing. It was her favorite game. Very nostalgic..
This game is the definition of nostalgia.
Holy nostalgia! Thanks for this trip down memory lane!
man - this soundtrack is surprisingly rad
I played it back in 1998 to 2000 when I was 4 to 6 years old. I really want to play it again
You can buy it on GoG now.
i just typed "there was an old pc game where we were a green rabbit" HHNNNGGG childhood NOSTALGIAAAAAA!!!!
Just realized ive been wearing a green bunny suit for over 5 years and it has never hit me, i couldnt get enough of this game as kid.
i feel like 7 years again when i play it in 1995 summer after i got my first DOS pc
Tis game was AWESOME. Can't believe how many secret areas and items you missed though - painful :/
i know. i was like you're missing all the good stuff man!
Man this video really hurts!
M-m-m-m-MASSSIVE nostalgia!
Maaaaan this made me so happy to see! I remember playing this on my DOS computer when I was 9. Thank you so much for sharing
I remember sam and max hit the road. Commander keen. Lemmings. Jill of the jungle, Ghostbusters on dos and of course this game.😂 good times.
those bee's always pissed me off
Surely one of the most remembered games in my memory. It always feels so nostalgic and makes you want to go back, and have the fun, the feelings, innocence and laid back days of those days. Makes me remember the "i already was happy, and i didn't know it" phrase i read somewhere in a tribute video to the 80's/90's kids media T_T
played this game when i was 4 back in 1994. think i was like the only kid in my neighborhood that had a old dos pc. good times
+DupiDup same here. i was 5 tho
Surprisingly, I never noticed the strong Sonic the Hedgehog vibes this game had...
a Remake of it in full HD would be soooo fucking awesome :D
Ahhh, the sweet memories of childhood :-D This was also my very first CD-ROM game *gulp*... listening to the music and seeing the game again just made my day! Thanks!!!
Lol now this company is big with Fortnite
Every kid should have the privilage of growing up with games like this. Being a kid in the 90's was the greatest.
WHY DIDN'T YOU GET THE BIRD??!?!?!?!
I absolutely loved this game when I was a kid! I remember Saturday mornings where I'd wake up, eat Pop Tarts while watching The Tick, go play Jazz Jackrabbit on our 486 for hours, then gorge myself on Fruit Roll-Ups and Mondo juice in front of the NES until dinner...then after watching Duckman with my mom, go to bed curled up with my Stimpy doll. Damn, I'm glad I grew up in the 90's, so many great memories :)
this game was the truth
I'm 16 right now played this game when I was 8 ...still remeber this....
i will never forget this or tyrian 2000
MAN THE NOSTALGIA USED TO PLAY THE SHIT OUT OF THIS GAME AS A KID!!!!!!!
I never heard of this game til recently. And I have to admit, I think if Epic had ported this over to Playstation back in the day, it would have given Sonic a run for his Rings.
damn I played this on an old '98 pc back in the early 00s, this is unlocking memories
Hmmm...i remember playing this on my old pc. I remember that it had like a 3D part where you run on like a road...or something
Yeah,probably.
I forgot this game even existed!! 😢😲 This and Hocus Pocus were fun to play as far as PC goes..
That intro song
You're Unbelievable - EMF?
Ever heard jazz jackrabbit remix? It's a great song.
WOW..!! I loved this game, I finished it many times when I was 8..!! in 1994, I played it in a Acer Aspire color black, big monitor with 15" CRT, pentium proccesor 133 mhz.., windows 95, hard disk with 900Mb 32 MB of memory ram, a great remember, I still have this game and I play it... I can still remember the game called Hoover.. I loved it, you use to go inside of kind of ships and you had to capture the 4 flags of the enemy team.. somebody remebers it..?? even better somebody has it..??
ahhhhhhhh!!!! OH GOOOOD ALWAYS PLAYED THJS AS A KID
Im 21 years old too. And this bring me old memories. Thanks
The feels!
i had totally forgotten about this game. i used to love it. thanks for posting this.
Fortnite....
I played this when I was around nine - still remember it and misses it
Who here because of fortnite
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Jazz Jackrabbit is one of my favorite games back then. The music is super awesome too.
Over a decade later, and I still play Epic's games. Can't really say that about any other developers.
Oh my god. I used to play this all the time as a little kid, and haven't even watched it in several years until now. I'm at the high point of nostalgy right now. Man...
I had the fullware game! I loved this game back in the mid 90s. So many memories. The videos, the music...
If this was published by Apogee, it could be given new life with current development.
But since it was actually published by Epic, we were lucky to get both this and the sequel released on GOG!
the 90's truly was the golden age of computer gaming, and a great time to grow up
My childhood, this game was as fast as Sonic and the special stages was like Sonic CD. The floppy disks as items, hehe, nobody will understand where these come from. I remember this game having no sound and you had to install the Sound Blaster to make it work. I also remember the christmas levels, great memories
oh MAN! He's collecting Floppies! Freaking floppy disks! I still have some. haven't been able to use them in ages though, but OMG. that just goes to show how old this game is. I
My very first Videogame!
And this Game is still Awsome and one of my Favourites.
omg how i loved this game
OMFG, quite possibly my earliest gaming memories. I LOVE it.
I absolutely love Jazz Jackrabbit 1 & 2. They are still good games to this day. Wish we could get it on Steam though.
Played this game so much as a kid that I was speedrunning it back then.
I'm 44 and I played this every day when I was 17 lol
The Epic Mega-Games team sure knew how to make a theme song! Marvelous!
Such wonderful child hood memories. This shit takes me back. Can you believe people used to think this game was violent?
Was hab ich dieses Spiel damals geliebt! Kindheit lässt grüßen!
Ahh, memories. I remember seeing this in stores but couldn't buy it because A) I had no money on my own because I was 7 years old and B) our current PC was shit.
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was my childhood but I never played the first one
Marcus Fenix's childhood pet.
Wow... one of my favorite game as a child. Thanks for uploading, good memories.:D
OMFG BRINGS BACK MEMORIES! Ive looked for this game for years!
I love how all the old games would have your character picking up floppy disks for bonus points :)
All of the memories came rushing back to me. I remember this game.
Holly... I can't belive i even remember all of this ... I'm 22now , I was around 4 when i used to play this game...
I'm astonished I still remember the sound of picking up the items... I used to play this when I was 7...
This awesome game occupied way too much of the weekend during my childhood... I may just be showing my age, but gaming was so much better in the early days!
holy shit i really miss that moments of my childhood, i used to wake up in the morning of every weekend so i was able to play through a long uninterrupted session, however, every time i played my older brother get mad because i didn't know how to start the computer so i had to call him everytime for some help :')
That's how Epic Games wanted it to look like and it won top awards back then too.
One of my first pc games! Thanks for posting this. I wish i could find it again.
OMG I haven't SEEN this game or even THOUGHT about it since I played it at the age of like 8. amazing, thank you
So many memories of this game. Doom II and Jazz Jackrabbit were the first PC games I ever played
But, you missed all the secret stuff! Including my favorite part, the pet bird! =P Nice play through. I don't think any of us kids ever did it that fast, way back when. Nicely done!
Epic Megagames was da bomb, although they built a lot of games on that same engine. Such shame they no longer produce kid's games.
Who's watching this in 2016
So much memories 😭😭😭
wow i totally forgot about this game, and watching this video brought back everything. i remember never getting everything on those end of the level bonus games and loving the sight of one of those turtle signs
I grew up without a console. So instead of Mario and Sonic, Jazz Jackrabbit was my gaming icon.
I played this game when I was a child and was one of my favourite games
I vaguely remember playing this guy at my Granddad's house when I was a kid.
Tbh I didn't had the honour to play this game, I started on Jazz Jackrabbit2.
This one is good too!
Dear deity, the TUNES! I still have Alexander Brandon's oldschool VG songs on my raiding playlist for WoW... Timeless compositions never die.
even the nostalgia comments was 5+ years ago..Man we are gettin really old
this has one of the best computer game soundtracks ever