The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout (Game)

The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout

GAME » on August 3, 1990

Nintendo Entertainment System (Platform)

Help Bugs Bunny reach his 50th Birthday Celebration!

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Overview

The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout, known both in-game and in the Japanese version as Happy Birthday Bugs and known in Europe as The Bugs Bunny Blowout, is a 2D side-scrolling platformer developed and published by Kemco (Company) for the Nintendo Entertainment System (Platform) in Japan on August 3, 1990, in North America on September 1990, and in Europe sometime in 1990.

Developed as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the first official cartoon appearance of Warner Bros.'s famous cartoon character Bugs Bunny (Character), Birthday Blowout has the eponymous trickster rabbit on a quest to get to his birthday celebration while fending off his fellow Looney Tunes (Franchise) pals determined to prevent him from reaching the party.

It is sometimes seen as a spin-off of Kemco's earlier The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (Game), and the 50th anniversary celebration was also adapted into a pinball machine with Bugs Bunny's Birthday Ball.

Gameplay

Differing wildly from its North American predecessor, Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle, Birthday Blowout's gameplay consisted of platforming, combat using Bugs' hammer, and collecting power-ups and carrots. Several antagonistic Warner Brothers characters--including Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Daffy Duck and Yosemite Sam--appeared as boss characters at the end of levels. Birthday Blowout also included minigames such as a slot machine and Whack-a-Mole as opportunities to earn extra lives.

Birthday Blowout featured levels that were decently large in vertical scope, with many areas being up to two screens high, if not more. There were rabbit-hole warps to hidden areas with bonus carrots as well, further increasing the explorable size of each level. Several levels made up an entire world, and each of the six worlds in the game offered different environmental themes: A grassy plain; a desert; a temple; a jungle; and a dank cavern were the different backdrops on offer.

Bugs's abilities never really deviate from using his hammer, which is admittedly very short-range, though there is a power-up that renders him invulnerable for a short period of time. Bugs is also able to jump on top of some enemies without incurring any damage, similar in fashion to Super Mario Bros. 2, and while atop them can safely thwack them with the hammer. Oddly enough, collecting a bonus carrot within a level leaves behind a blue "WB" insignia that then acts as a platform on top of which Bugs can jump.

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