Twenty Years of Holiday Hare
- Posted:
- 15 Dec 2014 at 19:48
- Source:
- Epic MegaNews #6
A cool winter setting with ice caves and snow-covered pines.
All of your favorite Christmas tunes played to a rocking electric guitar beat!
Total arcade mayhem as Jazz goes up against ice monkeys, bulldogs, demons, and much more!
Released December 15, 1994, Holiday Hare ’94 took place entirely on a single planet—Holidaius—but with a different palette for each level, a technique that JJ1 hadn’t used before (although JJ2 would run it into the ground). It also used a different set of enemies in each level, with the unfortunate side effect of showing the Now Approaching screen three times more than necessary.
HH94’s festive remix soundtrack and its free distribution have given it some life of its own outside of the Jazz Jackrabbit series, among people throwing together lists of Christmas-themed video games, and it featured the series’ only ingame-sprite-based cutscene (until JJA). Unfortunately, it also brought back the hand enemies from Stonar, but nothing’s perfect…
With Hanukkah to begin in about 24 hours (adjust for time zone), this twentieth anniversary seems as good a time as any to wish you all a Happy Holidays from J2O. And if you don’t have HH94 yet, download it free today!
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Primpy on 16 Dec 2014 at 07:39
That’s 6 years before I was born.
Anyways, happy holidays to all the jazzers! :)
Slaz on 16 Dec 2014 at 17:52
Played this more than HH’95 as it’s included in JJCD.
Happy hanukkah, christmas, or whatever you are celebrating to all JJ players and site visitors! ;)