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Lore & Background

While debuting as a family-friendly series, starting with Conker's Pocket Tales, it has shifted focus to mature audiences with the development and release of Conker's Bad Fur Day; during development, the game was modified to incorporate graphic violence, strong language, offensive humor, and other mature content. These changes resulted in the title receiving a Mature rating from the ESRB, accompanied by a content advisory displayed on the packaging and the title screen when immediately powered on to caution unsuspecting viewers who might otherwise mistake it for a platformer intended for a younger audience.

A graphically improved remake of Conker's Bad Fur Day, along with new multiplayer modes, was released as Conker: Live & Reloaded on June 21, 2005 in North America for the original Xbox. Conker's Bad Fur Day was released on Rare Replay and Live & Reloaded has been made backward compatible with the Xbox One and the Xbox Series X.

Reader's Guide

Games: Conker's Pocket Tales (1999) - Game Boy Color; Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001) - Nintendo 64; Conker: Live & Reloaded (2005) - Xbox, PC; Young Conker (2016) - Microsoft HoloLens. Related games: Diddy Kong Racing (1997) - Nintendo 64; Project Spark (Conker's Big Reunion) (2014) - Xbox One; Rare Replay (2015) - Xbox One.

Did You Know?

• Conker was introduced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 1997.
• Conker's Bad Fur Day was originally developed as Twelve Tales: Conker 64 before being retooled with mature content.
• Young Conker's trailer received more than 30,000 dislikes against just over 1,000 likes.