Birthday Bunny, Birthday Card — Bryony Moss

On July 27, 1990, Bugs Bunny celebrated his 50th birthday. Around that same time, the local video store celebrated his birthday by having him as a special guest” (well, some guy in a Bugs Bunny suit showed up, so here nor there), but for nearly eight-year-old me, it was still pretty cool.

Dummied Out : Portrait sprites of Porky Pig, the Road Runner and Marc Antony and Pussyfoot and in-game sprites of Speedy Gonzales can be found in the games data (as well as the prototype rom of the game), implying they were meant to appear or at least make cameos, but got cut later in development.

I guess Bugs Bunny funny bunny is so preoccupied with acting like a swell guy at his own birthday party that he can't blow out his own candles. Sometimes, the arcades had pinball. Bugs is this forced to endure several levels of platforming hazards, enemies and then fight each of the Looney Tunes to make it to his party.

The second full-fledged role for the mature Bugs, Chuck Jones ' Elmer's Pet Rabbit (1941), is the first to use Bugs' name on-screen: it appears in a title card, "featuring Bugs Bunny," at the start of the film (which was edited in following the success of A Wild Hare).

The prototype of The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout , then known as The Bugs Bunny Birthday Bash, is a pretty early build. Excuse Plot : Bugs Bunny is going off to celebrate his 50th birthday, and the other Looney Tunes are (seemingly) jealous and go out of their way to sabotage it.