Game Description

Help Bugs Bunny find the fabled treasure of the Old Castle in Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3. Witch Hazel has put a spell over the rest of the Looney Tunes characters such as Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam and Wile E. Coyote and turned them against Bugs. He must ward them off and hope to find the treasure before they get him.

There are 60 levels to traverse, covering four major areas of the castle: the garden, the hall, the basement, and the treasury. There are 15 levels in each area. In each level, Bugs must find the eight keys which will unlock the exit to the next one as well as collect carrots to save for extra players (finding a Bugs Bunny icon is an instant extra player).

To help him, Bugs has a few weapons at his disposal: the bomb, cork gun, lightning, juice, and weight. Grabbing the hammer or pickaxe will help him get past physical obstacles, and the shield, clock and shoe will protect him from the other characters.

This game is for one player and a password is used to save each game's progress. ~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide

Roots & Influences

This game is the sequel to the first two Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle games. Its roots lie in Warner Brothers' Bugs Bunny cartoons, which were first created during the '40s. Max Fleischer's studio created the Looney Tunes characters and later sold them to Warner Brothers. ~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide

Review: Enjoyment

It makes you think while you're dodging the bad guys. ~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide

Review: Overall

Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle 3 is a fun game; it's sort of like Keystone Kapers meets Super Mario Bros.. You really have to keep on your toes to defeat the bad guys as you move from one platform to the next. Every level is a maze of vine ladders, warp buttons, twisting pipes, jump buttons and doors, behind which lie the keys you need to get to the next level. Best of all, the violence is all of the cartoon variety: bombs and 100-ton weights and cork guns.

The premise is as follows: Looney Tunes characters have fallen under a magic spell, so everyone from Tweety to Daffy Duck is out to get you. Some of them move intelligently too, so be careful or they'll trap you! The gameplay is simplistic but challenging. The higher levels are also more complex, so you have to remember where each pipe and warp square takes you or you could wind up looking down the barrel of Elmer Fudd's cork gun (you can take look around each level if you pause the game; there you can use the directional pad to move around and see where everything is).

The music is a catchy little tune, and the sound effects have an appropriate cartoon-like feel to them. The graphics are also well done, and all the characters are easily recognizable (of course, given their high profile, it would have been hard to mess that up). Each of the four major stages of the castle has its own look, so it's easy to tell that the first one is the garden, the next one the main hall, the third one the basement, and the final one the treasury.

Each time you complete a stage you get a password, which is handy for continuing games, especially since there are 60 levels to play through. All in all, this game really engages both your problem-solving and joystick skills, which I think is the hallmark of any good game, whether it's Tetris or this one. Any game that makes the player think while having fun is a solid one in my book, and Crazy Castle 3 is one of the few games that should appeal to kids as well as adults. ~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide

Review: Graphics

Very nicely done. ~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide

Review: Sound

The music is catchy, and the effects are as good as you'll get out of a Game Boy Color. ~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide

Review: Replay Value

With 60 levels, this game will keep any player going for quite a long time. ~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide

Review: Documentation

Does its job. ~ Brad Cook, All Game Guide