Jazz Jackrabbit is a platform game created by Cliff Bleszinski and Arjan Brussee, and produced by Epic MegaGames. It was released in 1994 for PCs operating DOS, with subsequent Macintosh and Microsoft Windows releases in 1995–96.
Jazz was hugely inspired by the Amiga game Zool and such another ongoing success of console classics (such as Sonic and Mega Man) defining the platform game genre in the 1990s market, and was initially considered to be a pastiche of Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog in the computer world. However, the game did not manage to reach as much popularity as to become PC's mascot, but did acquire a certain fan audience, especially due to its fast-paced gameplay, advanced graphics and notorious acid jazz level soundtracks.
In 1995, PC Format magazine named Jazz Jackrabbit "Arcade Game of the Year". Two other releases originated from it: a sequel named Jazz Jackrabbit 2 in 1998, as well as a Game Boy Advance remake named Jazz Jackrabbit Advance in 2002.
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