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Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout

Happy Birthday Bugs, ハッピーバースディ・バッグス, The Bugs Bunny Blowout
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Platform NES Year 1990
Publisher Kemco-Seika Developer Kemco
Region NA Language English
Tags Action, Platformer, Single Player, Licensed, Looney Tunes
Platform NES
Year 1990
Publisher Kemco-Seika
Developer Kemco
Region NA
Language English
Tags Action, Platformer, Single Player, Licensed, Looney Tunes

Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout is an action platformer where you play as Bugs collecting carrots and defeating enemies by hitting them with a mallet. You go up against various other Looney Tunes characters who are jealous of Bugs having a birthday celebration.
 
Good Bad
  • Can hide behind bushes
  • Jumping is responsive
  • Carrots you collect then become platforms to stand on
  • New lives are easy to obtain
  • Very weird hit boxes
  • Mallet attack is very slow
  • Cover system feels pointless
  • Random bonus rounds
  • Cannot attack after taking a hit until you wait a long time
  • Randomly vanishing platforms with no animation
  • Attacking is so frustrating, avoiding enemies is the best technique
  • Non-boss enemies have no relation to Looney Tunes
Good
  • Can hide behind bushes
  • Jumping is responsive
  • Carrots you collect then become platforms to stand on
  • New lives are easy to obtain
 
Bad
  • Very weird hit boxes
  • Mallet attack is very slow
  • Cover system feels pointless
  • Random bonus rounds
  • Cannot attack after taking a hit until you wait a long time
  • Randomly vanishing platforms with no animation
  • Attacking is so frustrating, avoiding enemies is the best technique
  • Non-boss enemies have no relation to Looney Tunes
 
5 Lacks the character that you would expect from a Looney Tunes game and a multitude of little issues make it a difficult game to recommend. Stopping you from attacking after a hit is a terrible design decision.

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