GDC: CliffyB wants Jazz Jackrabbit on XBLA

by Richard Mitchell { Mar 8th 2007 at 2:15PM }

Speaking at GDC, Cliff Bleszinski, the mad genius behind Gears of War, noted that he'd like to see his classic platformer, Jazz Jackrabbit, on Xbox Live Arcade. Cliffy noted that many people have told him the game would be good for Live arcade. "Honestly, I'd love to see it, too," said Bleszinski, but noted that Epic is too busy to take on the task themselves. "If anybody knows a person out there that can do it for us, more power to them," he said, stating that Epic was currently focusing on Unreal Tournament 3 and a "potential sequel" to Gears of War. "Potential sequel," by the way, was said with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

So, any developers out there want to take on Jazz Jackrabbit?

Tags: arcade, cliffyb, epic, gdc07, live arcade, LiveArcade, xbla, xbox live arcade, XboxLiveArcade

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

J.Goodwin @ Mar 8th 2007 2:40PM

It'd be awfully nice to get Jazz on XBLA.

About as non-PC-like as PC games get.

Gideon Stott @ Mar 8th 2007 2:38PM

I absolutely loved Jazz Jack Rabbit 2 on my old iMac.. bring it on XBLA!

Kyle Bittle @ Mar 8th 2007 6:34PM

Awesome! I used to play Jazz all of the time as a kid. I would buy the game in an instant if it came out on XBLA.

Hello @ Mar 8th 2007 6:35PM

I loved that game

Satertek @ Mar 9th 2007 4:26AM

Would love to see it. While most kids grew up on Mario and Sonic, I grew up with Jazz
Jackrabbit and Commander Keen and other Epic/Apogee shareware games
:)

Elliott Pogue @ Mar 9th 2007 8:25AM

Oh my god! If this came to XBLA, I would buy it in a HEARTBEAT!

DjDATZ @ Mar 9th 2007 8:42AM

JAZZ JACKRABBIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weird...I just played this game earlier this week on my comp when I was bored at school...

Ravi U @ Mar 19th 2007 3:38PM

Holy crap, I loved this game. I used to play the shareware version everytime I went to a friend's house, who lived like 30 miles away. Just think...us having a reunion 10 years later, and me kicking her butt at it all over again :-).

Grant @ Mar 10th 2007 1:45PM

i dunno if it's just me, but i remember these games(JJR or Comander Keen) being fun times wasters, but not having the draw of any of the REAL franchises at the time. i mean they would be a great addition to the XBLA, but not if they cost anything more than 400 points.