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RE: Jazz Jackrabbit Jumps Past Mario on PC – Today in History – May 3rd, 1994
It's weird... I enjoyed all the 8-bit and 16-bit Mario and Sonic platformers, and so Jazz Jackrabbit being the "edgier" cousin of those two, should've grown on me easily. However, I played through the shareware episode and I didn't really enjoy it all that much. On the other hand, I had plenty of fun taking my Jaguar or Nova and destroying whatever HARs Jazzy, Eva Earlong, or Devan Shell were piloting in OMF: 2097 when they made their cameo appearances in the tournament mode.
I only came into playing Jazz later in life, long after the recommended system requirements were probably considered "retro". It is a decent game but it is definitely missing something - that something that most Japanese developed 2D platformers seem to have.