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A mature platformer starring a hard-drinking red squirrel.
Conker's Bad Fur Day is a 2001 platform game developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64. It is the second installment in the Conker series, after Conker's Pocket Tales (1999).
Quick Facts
- Platforms across franchise
- Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color
Lore & Background
The game follows Conker, a greedy, hard-drinking red squirrel who must return home to his girlfriend, Berri, after an evening of heavily drinking at the local pub. The setting is the Fairy Panther King's Kingdom. The plot involves Conker getting lost, pursuing cash rewards, and ultimately confronting the Panther King and his servant Professor Von Kriplespac.
Reader's Guide
Most of the game requires the player to complete a linear sequence of challenges that involve jumping over obstacles, solving puzzles, and fighting enemies. The player controls Conker through three-dimensional levels, using abilities such as running, jumping, smacking enemies with a frying pan, swimming underwater, climbing, and pushing objects. Context-sensitive pads grant temporary abilities like turning into an anvil or using a shotgun. A multiplayer mode with up to four players in seven game types is included.
Did You Know?
- The game was originally intended for a family audience under the title Twelve Tales: Conker 64.
- Development lasted four years, with concepts originating during the development of Killer Instinct Gold in 1996.
- The game received critical acclaim but sold below expectations due to limited advertising and a late release in the Nintendo 64's life cycle.
- A remake, Conker: Live & Reloaded, was released for the Xbox in 2005.
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