Conker's Bad Fur Day
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| Developer(s) | Rareware |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
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| Latest version | {{{version}}} |
| Release date(s) | March 5, 2001 |
| Genre | Platformer |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Mature (M) ELSPA: 15+ |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 64 |
| Media | 512-megabit cartridge |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day is a Nintendo 64 video game made by Rareware that was marketed as an "adult" platform game. It stars Conker the Squirrel, a Rare character who has appeared in other games, such as Diddy Kong Racing for the N64 and Conker's Pocket Tales for the Game Boy Color. Bad Fur Day featured scatological humor, cartoonish violence and a penchant for parodies.
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Origins
Conker's Bad Fur Day was originally going to be titled Conker's Quest and was later titled Twelve Tails: Conker 64. Early screenshots suggested the game would be targeted at younger children and would feature cute characters and colorful settings. Rareware had a long history of making games of this sort, such as Banjo Kazooie and Diddy Kong Racing, and at first Conker did not appear to be any different. However, the original kid-targeted game was drastically overhauled when critical mockery of it became too much. When the announcement was made that Conker would be re-tooled into an "adult" game with lots of scatological humor many did not initially believe it, and assumed the press release was an April Fool's Day joke. However, as the months went on the change quickly was understood to be very real and permanent. Inspired by South Park, the game's producer Chris Seavor lobbied to revamp the graphics and attitude, and it transformed into the adult Bad Fur Day. Seavor would actually go on to voice Conker in this new version.
Even though this game did well in both the UK and US, it fared worse than expected, in part because of its early 2001 release: a year later, the Nintendo 64 was discontinued after the release of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, yielding to the new GameCube system.
Another factor was Nintendo's fear of controversy. Even though it was to be published by Rare themselves, Nintendo felt that parents might accidentally buy the game because of the cartoon squirrel who had appeared in other, kid-friendly games, and not realize it was intended for the 17-and-up crowd. As the image of the game's box above illustrates, Nintendo demanded the box feature a larger-than-usual "M for Mature" rating graphic, as well as the disclaimer "Warning: This game is not for anyone under 17" — both highly unprecedented moves that signify the company's fears.
Nintendo of America refused to even acknowledge the game in their Nintendo Power publication, and all advertising was limited to late-night cable television and ads in Playboy. Despite (or perhaps because of) everything working against it, the game has enjoyed a cult following, actually growing in popularity despite it being for an older console. Much of the gameplay in Conker's Bad Fur Day features parodies of various movies, including The Terminator, Dracula, The Wizard of Oz, The Untouchables, A Clockwork Orange, Aliens, The Matrix, and Saving Private Ryan.
Special abilities and powers
In the game, Conker has certain abilities and powers humans don't share.
Physical powers
Probably the most straightforward abilities of Conkers are physical. Being a squirrel, he can duck then jump a high distance vertically, as well as jump at least twice his height in any direction. Also, he can spin his tail around quickly like a helicopter for a few seconds. This allows him to jump a little higher, navigate in the air to accurately land, and slow his decent if he's far from the ground. After a few seconds, the tail slows down, and he drops and isn't able to do it again until he's landed and jumped again. Besides this, he has few other physical powers. He can swim underwater for a while, jog indefinitely and not get tired, and is strong enough to push heavy round objects.
Antigravity chocolate
Another aspect of Conker's powers comes from antigravity chocolate spread around the game. When eaten by Conker, they give him resistance to injury. They were originally created by the Professor, but he threw them out the castle window when he started a new project. Afterward, Conker could eat up to six of them. They're large pieces of chocolate about half the size of Conker that float and rotate in a stationary position. There seems to be two types of chocolate, regenerative chocolate and one-time chocolate. One-time chocolate disappears after eaten, and doesn't re-appear until Conkers exits then re-enters the world. Regenerative chocolate re-appears 10 seconds after being eaten, apparently out of thin air. Antigravity chocolate does not provide protection against certain things, such as falls from especially high heights, being severed in two by spinning blades, or being dismembered in a grinder. However, it does protect against being hit with a heavy object from above.
Ports
In 2005, it was re-released on the Microsoft Xbox as Conker: Live & Reloaded. This game features improved graphics, a whole new multiplayer designed for a Live-enabled campaign, Xbox Live support, and a possible new chapter. However, it fared worse than its predecessor, with many gamers voicing their disappointment that it was just a port (rather than a whole new Conker game). In the game, there are a lot of "port" jokes from Conker, who says that he thought Live and Reloaded was just a straight port.
Plot and levels
The game's opening cutscene begins with Conker as king, seated on a throne, surrounded by characters encountered later on (in a scene reminiscent of the first shot of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.). A flashback follows from the previous night. Conker is at the Cock & Plucker pub, drinking with some squirrel soldiers. Conker attempts to call his girlfriend Berri and tell her that he will be late, but she is busy doing aerobics. Some time later, Conker leaves the Cock & Plucker, obviously intoxicated, and heads off into the night.
1. Hungover: Conker wakes up the next day, hungover, and meets a drunken scarecrow named Birdy who teaches him about context-sensitive areas (a light bulb appears over Conker's head, and pressing B gives him a useful item). Using this new technique, Conker obtains pills and takes them to clear away his hangover. He learns how to spin his tail like a rotor to hover, and how crouching and jumping can make him jump extra high vertically. After pulling a lever, he goes into a room where he remembers that he has a frying pan (or a baseball bat in the Xbox version) to hit things with, instead of his fists. He uses this to get past a gargoyle blocking his progress over a bridge. This causes a boulder to fall, blocking the exit, but Conker finds a nearby context sensitive pad which gives him TNT to destroy the boulder. Conker then progresses through the newly opened gateway.
A cutscene shows the Panther King, in his castle on a nearby mountain, summoning a weasel technophile mad scientist to his throne room to study the problem with the table. The scientist eventually decides to fill in the gap with a red squirrel (i.e. Conker), and the king sends out his weasel guards to catch one.
2. Windy: Conker arrives in Windy, the game's central area named for the windmill in the center of the area. After earning money from the Queen Bee by retrieving her hive from wasps, Conker buys a manual from Birdy that tells him how to use a slingshot to kill some dung beetles blocking his progress up a hill. However, the money (which is alive) finds that Birdy is flatulent and his back pocket stinks, so it goes back to Conker. In the shadow of the castle (unreachable at this point) is a huge mountain of fecal matter called Poo Mountain. Nearby is a locked cabin with sign saying to come back at 10:00, so Conker heads through the doorway to...
3. Barn Boys: ...a nearby farm. Here Conker enters the barn, where he fights Franky the pitchfork, who is egged on by a paintbrush and paint pot. In the midst of the challenge, but Conker goes behind bouncing alive haystacks, so whenever Franky tries to spear Conker, he only kills the haystacks. They urge him to hang himself after losing the fight, but this fails to kill him, as he is a pitchfork and has "no neck of any description". Conker pulls a switch that opens a door, freeing the King Bee and a monster made of hay. Conker talks to the King Bee, who wants to pollinate a ticklish sunflower. Conker finds pacifist bees who only tickle people, and leads them to the sunflower, who uncovers her chest. The king bee pollinates the flower, then Conker uses her breasts to bounce into an alcove with money in it. He then returns to the barn to free Franky from the rope. Together, they spear Haybot three times, who then jumps and breaks the floor. Below, Haybot's hay burns off, revealing him as a terminator-esque robot. Conveniently, there is a big "do not press" button on his back. Conker and Franky hide behind pipes while Haybot fires missiles, which break the pipes, thrice temporarily shorting out the haybot, allowing Conker to press the button three times, which destroys Haybot's arms than body. Franky is split in two, but Conker uses duct tape to tape him together. As the water begins to rise, Conker throws knives at dangling electrical wires, severing them, then floats to a door, leading to a part of the barn. After collecting more money, Conker returns to...
2. Windy: The squirrel enters the poo cabin, where he goes down a tunnel to a "poo farm", where he solves a puzzle involving a bull, prune juice, and cows and is rewarded by the dung beetles with a large ball of poo. He uses this to defeat a guard in order to enter...
4. Bats Tower: ...where aristocratic catfish hire him to get rid of a bulldog fish guarding their underwater vault, and agree to give him 10% of the money. Conker climbs up the tower and solves puzzles that involve finding cogs to operate a mechanism that shortens the dogfish's chain. The catfish open the vault, and Conker goes to get the money, but has to chase it through underwater passages and fight fire imps driving a talking boiler with large brass testicles. The fortune turns out to be only $10, $1 for Conker, angering him, so he takes all the money. The chain breaks and the dogfish kills all but one of the catfish, and Conker gets away, obtaining $300 by jumping on the Bullfish's dead carcass. He returns to Windy and enters a door in Poo Mountain, leading to...
5. Sloprano: Upon entry, Conker is greeted by a dung beetle who has been trapped in the mountain for untold ages and whitnessed his friends' death in the hands of an unknown entity that resides in the masses of excrement. The dung beetle leaves, and Conker gives in to a monsterous voice demanding sweet corn. Once satisfied, a giant living piece of feces comes out of the hazardous poo below Donker. Dubbing himself as "the Great Mighty Poo", the opera-singing pile of excrement begins to throw pieces of himself at Conker. Conker retaliates by throwing gigantic rolls of toilet paper into his adversary's singing mouth. When littered in toilet paper, the poo's sings so loud as to break a barrier covering a secret room. Conker pulls on the chain, flushing and ultimately killing the giant poo, as well as revealing a new path for him to traverse.
Conker descends the new opening, swims and jumps past meat slicers to the top of a tower and bridge guarded by two weasel guards. Conker wittingly (and cleverly) passes through weasel guards by telling one that he is in fact an elephant, not a squirrel. Conker proceeds across the bridge into...
6. Uga Buga: ...a typical dinosaur-themed level. Berri has been captured by golemic Rock'ards, rock creatures that constantly rival with the cavemen. Conker (, who is clearly not liked by either side for just being an outsider) manages to trick the cavemen by disguising himself as one of them. Forcefully gaining entry to the originally guarded Rock'ard nightclub with violence, Conker (the cavemen being unaware of Conker's just intentions) figures out that her capturer is a mafian godfather-esque weasel, who intends on ridding of the caveman's existence by offering a trade to blow up their territory with a bomb. Conker refuses, and thus his girlfriend was taken away.
Already upset, Conker gets mugged by ridiculous cavemen, in which force him to race on hoverboards in expense for his lost account. After such events, Conker is forced into gladiator battles and fights the Uga King as the final match. In a turn of events, Conker returns to...
2. Windy: After retrieving Queen Bee's hive from the nasty wasps for the second time, Conker climbs up the hill to the windmill, and pays the barrel on top to give him a ride down the hill. He does this by running on the barrel as it rolls down. Conker falls off and is knocked out, waking up at night to find that the barrel had crashed through some boards blocking a passage. The passage leads to...
7. Spooky: Here, conker meets up with Greg the Grim Reaper. Short and stout, (unlike cognitive recognition) he uses a megaphone to sound more menacing.
He gives you a shotgun (or a blunderbuss in the Xbox version) to help you past an area engraved with the undead into a mansion. Conker would meet his long lost vampiric greatgreatgreat+ grandfather.
He explains about how the villagers have arrived to kill him, so he bites Conker to give him vampiric powers. Transforming into bats which conciously fly out of reach, Conker's grandfather dangles from a rope over a machine, and instructs Conker to fetch the villagers and drop them into the grinder, in which the blood could be taken for nourishment. Conker does his deed, only to find out that his gluttonous grandfather has taken too much nourishment to stay aviant. Turning back to his normal self, he returns to Windy. He then proceeds through a door to...
8. It's War: The mad weasel scientist has created an army of evil teddy bears, the Tediz (inspired by troops used in the Milk Wars 300 years ago between the weasels and the squirrels, when the Panther King came to power by overthrowing and chopping off the legs of the Weasel King [presumably the scientist himself, who has no legs, the game never answers that] and banishing the squirrels from the kingdom).
The scientist created Tediz to overthrow the Panther King, but at the moment they are at war with the squirrels, and Conker joins the battle. He is sent to fight in an assault of a Tediz base, and the scene in which he arrives to the beach is almost identical to the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. Conker discovers enemy weapons on a dead soldier and infiltrates an enemy bunker.
After saving Private Rodent, a geeky rodent with a prototype shell-like impenetrable armor, Conker destroys a large Tediz controlled by an evil little sock puppet girl, using a tank that Conker and Rodent found. Afterward, the spider mines destroy the tank, Rodent is knocked unconscious but presumed dead, and the little girl activates the base's self-destruct. Conker makes his way through trip-laser mines and rocket-wielding Tediz to the shore, where he boards a transport. Rodent wakes up seconds before the base explodes, and hides in his armor. On his way back, Conker and the remaining troops see rodent flying through the air, alive. Conker returns to Windy, where he finds that the windmill has been destroyed by Rodent's impact, revealing a passage leading to a bank called the Feral Reserve, a take off of the Federal Reserve.
9. Heist: Conker runs into the weasel godfather outside of the Feral Reserve Bank, adjacent to the castle. He explains that he is out of money, and hires Conker and Berri to rob the bank, dressed like Neo and Trinity from The Matrix.
After a parody battle, they reach the vault, where they find the Panther King, who had hired the godfather to bring Conker to him to use as a table leg; the godfather collects his money, shoots Berri dead to get her out of the way, and exits. The scientist, meanwhile, is enraged that Conker destroyed his Tediz, and, as a Plan B, has planted an alien egg inside the king to kills two birds with one stone, as its birth kills the king, and will do the same to Conker afterward. The alien bursts out of the king's chest; meanwhile, the vault turns out to be the interior of a spaceship, and blasts off into orbit. Conker pulls a lever, which opens an airlock, sucking out the scientist as well as the corpses of Berri and the Panther King; it also opens a compartment revealing a robotic exoskeleton spacesuit, which Conker uses to fight the alien.
After unsuccessfully trying to throw it out the airlock three times, the game freezes just as the alien prepares to kill Conker, who climbs out of the suit and speaks with a programmer, who agrees to help him in return for not telling anyone about the glitch in the game. The programmer moves both Conker and the alien to a white void, out of the Matrix, where Conker requests the programmer to supply him with weaponry, eventually selecting a sword. By Conker's request, the programmer sends both into the now-empty throne room, where the game is unfozen again and Conker decapitates the alien. Conker suddenly realizes that he should have asked the programmer to bring Berri back to life, but the programmer is gone. A lot other characters encountered in the game show up, and Conker is crowned king against his will. In his thoughts, he tells the player that he'd much rather just go home, live with Berri and hang around in the pub.
The game ends with Conker saying "The grass is always greener, and you don't really know what it is you have until it's gone."
10. Epilogue: After the credits, Conker is seen entering the Cock & Plucker again, asking the bartender for a drink. After spending an indefinite while in the pub, Conker is seen leaving the bar, once again drunken, and wandering off into the night.
Voice Cast
Conker, Birdy, Gregg the Grim Reaper, Franky, Ron, Reg, Mr. King Bee, Private Rodent, Sarge and MANY others: Chris Seavor
Berri the Squirrel, Mrs. Queen Bee, the Sunflower, Jugga and others: Louise Ridgeway
The Great Mighty Poo: Chris Marlow
