Crazy Castle
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The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle is an action-puzzle game series, created by Kemco and released on the Nintendo Game Boy. It stars the popular Warner Brothers cartoon character Bugs Bunny. In the early stages of this series, the first 2 games were only released under the Bugs Bunny license in the United States. The original games featured Disney licenses, but another publisher, Capcom, had exclusive rights to release Disney properties in the US on the NES system. So for these games to see a US release, the character sprites were altered to use Bugs Bunny (and other slight changes) rather than the original graphics. In some cases the original games were released under different publishers in their original forms in the US, one prime example being Mickey Mousecapades on the NES, which was published by Capcom. It wasn't until the Bugs Bunny/Mickey Mouse series was split in Japan that the Crazy Castle series was released there. Just before the release of Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle III, Japan released Bugs Bunny Collection, which for them was just a re-release of Mickey Mouse I and II, but with the Bugs Bunny sprite set and other minor updates (such as Super Gameboy support). The rest of the Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle series was released as original titles throughout all terretories from this point forward.
List of games in the series
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (NES) originally Roger Rabbit in Japan
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (GB) originally Mickey Mouse in Japan
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2 (GB) originally Mickey Mouse II in Japan
Bugs Bunny Collection (GB)Re-release of both Gameboy titles for Japan territory this time Featuring Bugs Bunny instead of Mickey Mouse
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3 (GBC)
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 4 (GBC)
Woody Woodpecker Crazy Castle 5 (GBA)
Screenshot Comparisons
The following are pictures comparing the different releases of various games.
The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (NES) as compared to Roger Rabbit (NES) released in Japan.
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The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (GB)as compared to Mickey Mouse (GB) released in Japan.
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The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2 (GB) as compared to Mickey Mouse II (GB) released in Japan, which was also released as Mickey Mouse (GB) in Europe.
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The rest of the Crazy Castle series continued on the Game Boy Color (GBC) and Game Boy Advance (GBA) and was kept the same in all territories.
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3 (GBC)
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 4 (GBC)
Woody Woodpecker Crazy Castle 5 (GBA)
Mickey Mouse 5-Part Series (continued..)
The Japanese Mickey Mouse series continued to become various other things in the US and Europe up until Mickey Mouse V, which wasn't released outside of Japan until 1998 and was re-titled Mickey Mouse Magic Wands to avoid continuity confusion. The US and European versions of Mickey Mouse Magic Wands have added Super Game Boy support.
Kid Klown in Night Mayor World (NES)
Other Games
Mickey's (Dangerous) Chase, also made by Kemco, was released between Mickey Mouse III and IV, but is not considered part of the same series because even the Japanese title screen does not include any numerical reference to its placement amongst the rest of the Kemco Mickey games.
Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular (NES)
Mickey Mousecapade (NES) is an example of a Hudson Soft game released by Capcom in the US due to copyright issues. Despite the title of the game on the US box the title screen in-game only reads "Mickey Mouse."
It should be noted that Snoopy's Magic Show (GB, 1990) was always a Snoopy game.
