Who Framed Roger Rabbit (NES) Playthrough
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- A playthrough of LJN's 1989 license-based action-adventure game for the NES, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Following a year after the theatrical release of the 1988 smash hit film, Rare's NES adaptation of Who Framed Roger Rabbit reviewed well, and it was fairly popular in its time.
You play as Eddie Valiant (RIP Bob Hoskins), a private dick hired to look into the murder of Marvin Acme, the owner of Toontown. The goal is to clear the name of the wrongly accused toon Roger Rabbit and prevent Toontown from falling into the hands of Judge Doom. If he's going to pull off such a feat, Eddie will have to beat the streets to track down the pieces of Acme's will that have been scattered across Tinseltown.
The flow of the game is simple. Wandering the streets of 1940s Los Angeles, you speak to people and search buildings for items and clues as you attempt to evade Judge Doom’s weasels, speeding cars, and assorted wildlife. Items will sometimes be sitting out in the open, but the majority will be hidden in background objects that have to be searched.
The game will penalize you for blindly rummaging through people's belongings (notice how coming up empty handed sometimes adds to the "punchline" meter at the top of the screen?), so the key is to ask for help from the random people milling about. If they tell you to search the building, then there's an item to be found nearby. If they say the building is empty, then you can move on and not waste your time. For a good laugh, you might try punching a random woman in the face and then asking her for help.
How is "GO AWAY YOU HORRID MAN" not a meme yet?
After you've gathered enough supplies you can begin actively hunting for the four pieces of the will. If you can get into the Ink & Paint Club and give Jessica Rabbit a flower she can point you in the right direction, as can the woman with big hair if you give her a heart, and the snake if you give him a rattle.
You have to be careful, though, because everything in this city is trying to kill you. Cars, rats, anvils, and bird poo can all make quick work of Eddie, and Roger will easily fall prey to the weasels and vultures if you fail to keep him out of harm's way.
Once all four pieces of the will are safely in hand, you can finally head over to Judge Doom's warehouse for the final showdown.
The internet has loved to hate on this game for many years now, and that sucks, because it really doesn’t deserve its reputation. It does have a few issues - there's not a lot of variety to the gameplay and the controls are awkward - but the game isn't nearly to play as difficult as people make it out to be. The gameplay is straightforward and easy to grasp after a quick skim of the manual, and though death can feel cheap at times, most of the traps are easily spotted and avoided with some practice.
Nintendo Power liked it, too. It got a full four page spread in the June/July 1989 issue, and the ratings were very respectable - the 4 out of 5 they gave it for "theme and fun" placed it ahead of IronSword, Guerilla War, Bad Dudes, and RoboCop, all of which were reviewed in the same issue.
The game looks pretty nice. The main characters are all instantly recognizable, and even though the backgrounds can sometimes be a bit repetitive, their simple, heavy lines and bold colors serve the cartoony style well. David Wise's jazzy tunes are super catchy, too.
The controls take some getting used to, though. The timing of Eddie's punch is fairly counter-intuitive, and cycling through items and punchlines requires you to hold select button while tapping left and right on the d-pad - not ideal when you're being attacked.
Overall, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is light, silly, and fun, and the way the locations of items are randomized at the start of each game gives it a lot of replay value. It's not the most polished NES game out there, but it tries hard to capture the magic and charm of the film, and it almost succeeds.
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"Can you help me?"
"Go away you horrid man."
That's quality dialog.
How about go away you horrid game!
I never knew this game existed until this morning
@@thecunninlynguist I actually like this one quite a bit.
@@NintendoComplete lol cool. Just reciting some classic AVGN
@@thecunninlynguist Ah, I have not seen that one, but I should have guessed 😅
I was borderline obsessed with this game as a kid. The whole open world concept along with the randomized item locations made it feel like a new experience every time I played it even though I would rarely make any actual progress. Eff that final boss though!
I understand all too well. I played it a ton back then too, even though most the time I was just talking to people, punching Roger, and racing around in the car. I didn't really get it, but I loved it anyway.
I actually beat Judge Doom. But oh Lord it wasn't easy. All because I stumbled on a glitch to do it.
I absolutely hated this game. I couldn’t figure out what I was doing
Same, it was like gta roaming for NES. Driving around was just mind blowing 😅
I’m sitting here minding my own business and all of a sudden I remember this game exists. I played the hell out of this as a kid.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a massive phenomenon for us 80’s and 90’s kids. I never played this game, but it has a cool vibe that seems like a mix of Nightshade and A Boy and His Blob.
I remember playing this on an old school Apple computer. The small one with the black and green screen! Never could beat this game.
Thanks for sharing!
How many times I rented this game to be completely disappointed but I loved every minute of it. Damn you, RARE!
Same, I was to little and dumb to figure it out. I just liked driving the car and music
Adored this game as a kid, thank you for posting your play through! I wanted to scream, @ 37:52 Roger got run over and then picked right up by the bird and taken away before he could stand back up. I've never seen that before, talk about hilarious!
Haha right? I was so irritated by that, but I couldn't help but laugh. The fates were conspiring against me.
I just can't say no to a David Wise NES soundtrack no matter how horrid the game is. That Rare soundfont gets me every time.
Never got to play this one as a kid, but was always fascinated by it in the game genie book. I had the awesome Capcom made GB Roger rabbit game
I know it's not a good game, but Roger Rabbit is one of my all time favorite movies, so I have a huge amount of nostalgia for this one. Once you get down how it works with the punch mechanic, it becomes more tolerable. Enjoyable even. The final Judge Doom fight can kiss my ass, though.
Theres actually a glitch you can exploit in the Judge Doom fight USING the punch mechanism
I don't care what the angry video game nerd says... This was one of my favorite games AND movies as a kid in the 80s, early 90s. It really isn't as difficult as he made it out to be. I remember when Jessica Rabbit actually answered that phone number too. Gosh those were the good ol days.
Great memories of playing this. Never beat it, I was too young.
Same
I was 6 or 7 when playing it 😅
This game was fun to play. Great memories 😀🎮🕹👍🏻
If you want to save some time in this game, remember that when someone tells you to search the building, you only have to search one place in each room. If the item is in that room, it will always come out of the first place you search.
Also, try entering all H's as a password. It will give you 9 of every item and the only things you'll need to find are the detonator, dynamite and 2 pieces of the will IIRC (haven't played this game in a while).
The Nerd: All right, I haven't played this one in a while, so, let's... give it a chance. All right, well, this is really an inconvenience, having to search for stuff. Look at this, you go around and you search for things. "Searching... it's empty". It's so slow. Now this is kinda fun though, you get to punch people. We're gonna beat up Roger Rabbit now. YEAHHH. The only thing that's really annoying is that it takes so long to charge that punch. AUGHHHHHH! You know what? It isn't fun. You know, i-it just isn't at all. It's just a pain in the fucking ass. "Can you help me?" "Go away, you horrid man!" How 'bout "Go away, you HORRID GAME!"?
Driving the car is really annoying because the control's so awkward. Then these weasels catch ya, and they make ya solve riddles. And they're always the stupidest riddles, too, like "What animal can you never trust?" "A cheetah." And how is this cat gonna kill you?! And look at this! Th-this is the longest password ever! Would it have killed them to make this any shorter? It takes forever! Like, why should any game, take like ten minutes to type in the fuckin' password?
So then you go into this nightclub and you find Jessica Rabbit, and then she tells you to go find her phone number, like she can't just give it to ya. So you go around and you search every table 'til you find it. And then, you know, I was lookin' all over this game, like where is there a phone where you can actually call her? And it wasn't until much later, when I grew up, that I found out you're really supposed to call her.
(The Nerd is talking to Jessica Rabbit on her phone.)
This is Jessica Rabbit? Well, I got your number and I'm callin' just to say "FUCK YOU!"
Jessica Rabbit: I hope you're proud of yourself!
The Nerd: Yeah, well, I hope you're proud of yourself, and you know what I mean, ya fuckin' whore.
Jessica Rabbit: I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
The Nerd: Yeah, well, wait 'til I draw your suicide note in your own blood, you bunny fuckin' bitch. I'm comin' over and I'm gonna kill ya. I'm gonna kill your whole motherfuckin' family.
All right, well now I got that out of my system, let's continue with the game. So you go into the stores and, the way you buy stuff is ridiculous. You go up and then you have to, like, go through all your items 'til you select the wallet. Use the wallet, and then this item drops down and you go pick it up. Now there's only one item for sale at a time, so you have to leave the store, then you come back in and then there's somethin' different there. So if you're lookin' for somethin' in particular, ya have to keep leavin' the store and comin' back in. Like, imagine if in real life, like if I walked into a liquor store and I wanted Rolling Rock, and all they had there was Budweiser just sittin' on a box next to the counter, so then I have to leave, then I have to come back in again and then there's somethin' else, and I have to keep walkin' in and out the door 'til I get what I want. It's just... like, what were they thinking?
So you finally get the dynamite, and you come over to blow up this brick wall. And watch this, it's probably the best explosion ever. (PMMMMMM) Yeah, look at that. That was pathetic. So then you get to Judge Doom, and he's like impossible. And most of the things you have are just useless. You have a gun which really doesn't do anything. Y'know what? I'm not even gonna punish myself anymore with this piece of shit. All right, the game sucks, end of story; I wanna nail Roger Rabbit to the fuckin' cross.
A detective in 1940's LA solving a mystery who can get into fistfights? It's LA Noire, but for the NES!
ONE HOUR????? I probably put 100 hours into this game as a kid and I literally never got anywhere in it, lol. I didn't understand it at all.
Nothing short of poetry.
So glad to finally sit and watch a walkthrough of this. I managed to beat some really twisty titles like Deadly Towers and Discworld, but this one remained inscrutable to me.
Fun fact( if you can call it " fun") : This game gives you a real life phone number to call for a clue to the game, but now the number is a sex hotline. Or so I've read.
It's Jessica Rabbit advertising her OF
Can you help me?....
Yes there some cheese in the drawer.
If I didn't know there was another part to the final fight I had to do, I would've been so pissed off. The fist fight bit was painful as it is.
I can't believe you actually beat this. My mother only beat it once by dumb luck
I still think one of the most bullshit ways of losing a life is just having that vulture (the one that shows up at random on the overhead map) swoop down and yank Roger away.
Never seen this movie or played this game but , thanks to the AVGN , I know about it
You HAVE to see the movie, directed by the same man who directed the Back to the Future trilogy, Romancing the Stone, Forrest Gump, Cast Away.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of my favorite movies
Você tem que ver
Então você não teve infância kk
Summer '93, everyone's jam was Dre & Snoop. Mine was this soundtrack. This game is why I fell in love with GTA.
I don't remember Bob Hoskins punching every woman he sees in the movie
Loved driving😂
32:29 you really wanted to punch that guy 🤣
I actually really liked this game once I got the hang of it
I did too.
This game was fun but couldn’t beat it or understand it. It was funny to punch Roger & did try to defeat Doom thanks to a password but failed.
This was my game right here 😎🤙🏾
Back in the day as a kid i struggled forever against Doom and finally won the first part of the fight. And didnt know there was a second part and i went down and Doom killed me. So i rage quit the game and sold it at a yard sale. found out years later i needed to use the dip gun to kill him. lol
Ele ficou preso nas minhas memórias e finalmente pude acha-lo
Fun fact: Jessica Rabbit's phone number leads to a phone sex hotline. "I'm just drawn that way" my ass. "That is fucking awesome!" to quote Angry Nintendo Nerd's earliest days.
Toon town jessica come on roger let go home
Biggest cake
I always enjoyed punching random people in this game
I would lose my shiz when the weasels would come after me. And then as a little kid I didn't understand pun jokes. I never saw the toon world part till today smh
I cpuld never beat this as a kid. It pissed me off so much.
played this game as a kid. Could never figure out what to do lol
To me, I feel that Roger Rabbit for the NES would have worked better if LJN had Atlus develop this game instead of Rare like they did with their earlier games from 1987-88.
Yes, but then we wouldn't have the awesome David Wise music.
How many riddles were there that the weasels asked ?
37:45 LOL 😂.
So many empty buildings...
After you play a while
Items start to appear in the buildings
AVGN should revisit this game. 😂
This is the only movie where Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse interact with each other, while Daffy and Donald dueled pianos. This never happened a 2nd time
Not to mention Mickey co-existing with Woody Woodpecker (when the movie came out, Disney and Universal were rivals, but now, not so much because they gotta share Marvel since Disney pretty much has shared ownership of the Marvel Superhero Island sector of Islands of Adventure)
This longplay could have been LONGER if you would only have punched ALL the people.
Before GTA, we had this!
Game I rented a few times as a kid but never managed to finish. Not one of Rare's best on the system, but certainly not their worst either. Mostly just boils down to a lot of tedious item hunting.
People sleep on how good this game Actually was
37:47 "ARE YOU SERIOUS, ROGER?!"
So, the company that made Donkey Kong a hero worked on Roger Rabbit, eh?
NO THAT'S NOT AARON SMITH THAT'S EDDIE VALLIANT OR WHATEVER THATS CALLED AND WHATEVER THAT IS AND PERFECTION CALLED OR WHATEVER THATS CALLED AND WHATEVER THAT IS
The mysterious villain killed Eddie's brother Freddy
22:29
Another LJN classic smh. Those games were so terrible. Only part good was driving around, running from the weasels
Great Movie, Great soundtracks, lousy gameplay. Eh, 2/3 ain't bad.
Used to smack everyone in this game.
I know the movie well, but not so much about the game.
Borrowed this back in the day, ok-ish game.
Memory lane for me thanks
THIS WAS MADE BY RAREWARE?!?!?!?!!!?!!!?!!??
I'm going to say about the death of Bob Hoskins was the cause of this was pneumonia, I'm saying that pneumonia sucks because it can affect many people's lungs, so make sure we should never overused cigarette, it abused our brain, blood and lungs, so we fight pneumonia for our life just like they did to Hiroshi Yamauchi (d. 2013), William Henry Harrison (d. 1841), Jim Henson (d. 1990), Stan Lee (d. 2018) and more who many people died of pneumonia, so we honor them for their fatal death.
That's the end of judge Doom!
How do you know which houses to go to? Is it just random?
My favorite game all time
AVGN needs to see this.
''I RATHER FIGHT JUDGE DRED JUDGE DEATH OR JUDGE JUDY ALL I MATTTER'' fimnstuff 2012
Wait, I was told that only fully charged punches do anything to Judge Doom.
That's how I beat him, along with bombs and cigars.. Only took like 3 hours
This game always confused me
This game is too boring and too cringey.
This play through had to use a super game pad standard one would never give you time to power up on final boss !
wait is the game older than the movie because my town used to have this game when i was a kid then it disappeared
Incredibly bad game...
LJN has been known for making crappy video games that is Why I prefer titles from EA, Komani and Capcom.
They were the publishers. Most of these games used to be developed by companies that used LJN as a launching pad for their success (i.e. Atlus and Rare). Sure, their games weren't so good, but you have to start somewhere.
Disney debería de hacer una canción mix dubstep con esta aplicación
21:11 get the wraps
Roger rabbit was bad
This was one of the AVGN’s punching bags.
Pinche juego aburrido
Oh no…
Not the NES one
I prefer the GameBoy game by Capcom
@@bligamerplayer3299 Yes it is.
@@bligamerplayer3299 yeah
Awful music
Go away you horrid man. How about go away you horrid game. - AVGN
Go away you horrid game
-AVGN
the first grand theft auto IMO
From LJN the creators of spiderman Disney interactive the creators of Tron and rareware the creators of donkey Kong country
Nostalgia city....love this game.. everything was so much cooler then. Sad to see or know anyone who didn't experience the 1980s
Good game wait lgn oooh man
Net
I can't fathom how they screwed this game up so bad!
Like many other bad games, most likely corporate meddling and the demand to have it out on the shelves by the holiday season.
JCX OR WHATEVER THATS CALLED AND WHATEVER THAT IS JUST WHAT IN YOU MY CANDYTOPIANETTE CANDYLADY GIRLFRIENDS OF MINE IS GOING ON HERE OR WHATEVER THATS CALLED AND WHATEVER THAT IS AND PERFECTION CALLED OR WHATEVER THATS CALLED AND WHATEVER THAT IS
Never beat the game. Barely understood the movie but man did I play the hell out of it
This was truly the GTA of the time.
2:50 How about “Go away you horrid Game!”
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So much lazy put into this game.
Yep. This game is as awful as I remember it.
I never saw the movie or played this game. I'm glad that I never got to play this because this game looks absolutely awful.
rented this game when I was young I didn't know how to play it but I sure love power punching everybody 😅🤜🫨
Start up screen code, try 000 followed by 5 or 9 and you should start off with all the gear you need. Example… 00055555 etc, or 000999999999999.