New Jazz arcade machine in Fortnite
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- 24 Feb 2025 at 18:55
It’s time to reset the clock about whether Epic Games remembers that they made Jazz Jackrabbit!
Fortnite has gotten a new update at some point, adding arcade machines, and one of them is themed after Jazz Jackrabbit. The sprites on the side are all higher-definition versions of Jazz 2 menu sprites, and the face of the arcade machine uses an inexplicable redraw of a screenshot of Jazz 1, rather than just use a screenshot of Jazz 1.
One assumes the arcade machine is just a static texture, and not playable. This follows up from the poster discovered in 2017.
Another of the Fortnite machines references ZZT, a game with over 4000 custom worlds, presumably none of which would be playable on a hypothetical ZZT arcade machine.
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Neat!
well, I hate fortnite, but It's a good choise to they did, cuz players of fortnite might remember jazz jackrabbit game, if they forgot about it, well, nice update from fortnite, but I still hate it lol :)
The way Epic Games is going, I don't think Jazz will return someday. and if one day Epic makes a new Jazz game, hope that the company still be alive.
You know, I keep joking about there being a ZZT and Fortnite crossover… and, holy crap, it finally happened! Time to kick some ASCII! (:
That aside, this is a cute addition! I hope they credited Robert Allen for that piece of music, though. And the people who drew the cabinet art. (Dean Dodrill and whoever else.)
The arcade game looks cool. Darn shame Epic doesn't care about its own IP more. I mean, I guess I can understand that they focus on the cash cow. But those cash cows eventually run out. And not sure they'll be able to outcompete Gabe Newell and SteamOS on the store front.
I I somehow never got close enough to these in the previous season to hear the music or see read the machines. In the new season today I happened to be hiding next to one of these and thought I was losing it when I heard the music!! (It plays the main menu theme from JJ1)! I have grown up with Jazz Jackrabbit my whole life (JJ2 more so) so it is so special to hear these tunes being appreciated in any way these days. I was so surprised it (almost) cost me the game :') I wish they cared about Jazz more than this. I like fortnite casually but Jazz Jackrabbit is so special to me. <3