I found this picture a little while back, tied to a download for JJ1 Shareware:

After TPpatching the download, however, it was apparent that the title screen for that download was a standard version, with no "Jump'n'Run" text. So where did that picture come from? Does anyone have or know anything about a JJ1 with that text in it?

There wasn't any Jazz1 version released that was called like that. It must be a fake logo made to fit on a game download site because 'Jump 'N Run' is an other term for platform games. I can know it because I bought and played all the Jazz games since the first release in 1994.

There was the Jazz Jaackrabbit trilogy, it was an old game with a new box cover. Who knows?

Originally Posted by Jazzofsun

I can know it because I bought and played all the Jazz games since the first release in 1994.

You're talking as if Violet didn't.

Maybe it's a beta pic. It looks like it's from a magazine or something.

for *some* reason this look s photoshop to me. especially the letters, which defer in shade of green, angle, no 3d effect, spacing, (and font?)
but i dont know why any1 would want to make that... (okay, to amuse us, some bunch of weirdo's..)

Seems like a mock up.

Maybe it's a beta pic. It looks like it's from a magazine or something.

Does anyone have the Jazz 1 beta? Is it avalible anywhere? Can I get it?

no, no, no.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that the picture came from one of those old magazines that sold games by the bucketload. "Jump'n'Run" was probably added in simply to describe the game to attract potential customers. The font isn't anything like the logo, anyway.

Originally Posted by Sciz CT

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that the picture came from one of those old magazines that sold games by the bucketload. "Jump'n'Run" was probably added in simply to describe the game to attract potential customers. The font isn't anything like the logo, anyway.

Well, Sciz is closest to it. This picture is a scan of an old floppy label of the Jazz Jackrabbit shareware version. Back in the days when shareware was all the rage several local companies copied, labeled and distributed these programs on disks. You might remember those stands from your local computer-fair, where there used to be tables filled with stacks of floppies, all containing shareware software.
The words "Jump'n'run" were merely placed on the disklabel to immediately clarify to the potential customer what kind of game it was that was on the disk. But hey, who in their right mind would at the time buy such a floppy if they could already download it from their local BBS? :P

Well, me :P

I still have some floppies with the SW versions of Keen, Math rescue etcetera :P

Around 1994/1995 my dad bought all the episodes on Floppy for me. I can't find those floppy's anymore but I still got Jazz Jackrabbit CD (I bought that one a few years later). Anyway, I haven't seen this Jump'nrun thingy.