Crazy Castle series

The Crazy Castle series is a platform game series created by Kemco (until 2007) and WayForward Technologies (2011-presreleased on the Famicom Disk System, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch. it stars different popular cartoon characters, most notably the Warner Bros. cartoon character Bugs Bunny, the Walt Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse and the Universal cartoon character Woody Woodpecker.
== History ==
Kemco started the franchise after they licensed the rights to produce a Famicom Disk System game based on the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. When Kemco was planning to release it outside Japan, there was already an NES game based on the same film developed by Rare and published by LJN. Licensing issues occurring in Western markets, as Capcom owned rights to release Disney-based video games outside Japan at the time, had also been cited as a factor. In order to release the game outside Japan, Kemco bought the rights to Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes franchise to produce Looney Tunes-based video games.
When the promotion of the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit in Japan ended, Kemco lost the rights to produce video games based on the film there, but gained the rights to produce Disney-based ones, due to the Who Framed Roger Rabbit film being produced by Touchstone Pictures, a studio owned by The Walt Disney Company. Kemco later produced their Mickey Mouse versions in the Crazy Castle series and released most of these versions exclusively in Japan, while continuing their Looney Tunes versions outside Japan; however, some were based on other licenses such as ITE's Hugo media franchise, Jim Davis's Garfield comic strip, Charles M Schultz's Peanuts comic strip, Nickelodeons's Spongebob Squarepants & My Life as a Teenage Robot animated television series, Nelvana's Stickin Around animated television series, Fujiko Fujio's Doraemon frenchise and The Real Ghostbusters animated television series.
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