Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time scores 7/10 in the verdict of The Games Market editorial team.
Once Upon a Time
Bugs Bunny Lost in Time, a trip back in time Looney Tunes style!
by Simon Larocca·August 3, 2025
Typical day of a teenage boy in the Nineties: school, homework, a little soccer in the courtyard with friends, and the afternoon turning into evening, at last Go-Kart with Maria Monsè is on TV and the Looney Tunes burst in with their contagious cheerfulness. Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, the fiery Yosemite Sam, and the most unlucky Wile E. Coyote: these are just some of the characters brought to success by Fritz Freleng.
Eppure there is a character who, like Mickey Mouse in the opposing stable, manages to stand out for charisma and personality. A pair of rabbit ears, a hole in the ground, the distinctive crunching of the inevitable carrot between his teeth: I’m obviously talking about Bugs Bunny, protagonist of Bugs Bunny Lost In Time, released for PlayStation in 1999.
Squaring the veil of time, let’s stay on topic: we are in the heart of the PlayStation era, we could say its most successful moment, and Infogrames, a production house easily recognizable for its colorful armadillo-shaped logo and for giving us Alone in the Dark and many chills down our spines, rides the (temporal) wave of 3D platform titles like Spyro and Crash, proposing a highly tested formula: iconic protagonist, levels that play with History, and, in addition, Warner humor at full potential. The result is a stunning platform adventure, precisely, interesting even if penalized by a couple of elements that I will talk to you about shortly.
Bugs Bunny boasted countless qualities such as cunning and tactical-strategic acumen to escape Porky Pig’s bullets and the traps of his adversaries, but where he excels in intelligence, he fails when it comes to curiosity: too much, and it is this that leads him to travel by mistake through five different eras aboard an antiquated Time Machine, a clear tribute to Wells’s Time Machine used by the protagonist in the novel of the same name.
In search of carrots (heaven forbid they should be missing from his diet) and clock symbols needed to reconstruct the spacetime road that will take him back to his present, our Bugs will have to safely overcome the earliest humans in the Stone Age, the sabers and barrels full of rum in the Age of Piracy, then wander through the Fabulous Thirties and dive into the fascinating Middle Ages, all the way to the final area.
Seizing the reins, or rather Bugs’ ears, and moving him proves satisfying thanks to his quips, the kicks to the rear he gives his opponents (I’m not joking), and the varied ways to defeat the bosses and his historical enemies (the cameos are plentiful and Looney Tunes fans will shed more than one tear, I assure you), the most obvious issues are found in camera handling that needs work, and I’m using a polite euphemism, as well as a difficulty level that never presents a tough challenge, of the kind we are used to with much more demanding titles.
Mi comes to mind Super Mario Bros 3, to stay with the classic, or even one of the many chapters of the Commander Keen saga if we really want diggin’ in the past, digging into the past (I already told you we’re on the subject, right?). The so-called “little cannons,” meaning the term that was used in the Eighties and Nineties to refer to the lives left available, are virtually infinite.
Excellent both the game’s soundtrack and the themes that accompany us as we wander through time, while the Italian localization does its job, giving us the voices of the animated characters with a certain fidelity. Bugs Bunny Lost in Time is a title that wins over our hearts with an unyielding nostalgic effect, but beyond that it proves to be a complete and fun game; we could not have asked for more.
And how the closing credit stood out at the end of each episode…
That's all, folks!
7
Pro
The world of Looney Tunes lands on a console worthy of its name at the peak of its form, legendary characters who made animation history
Well-structured levels, carefully crafted and varied settings, with inspired design
Bugs Bunny is the best, always and in any case: his polygonal counterpart faithfully reflects the character, and playing with him, through him, is absolutely an added value
Contro
The difficulty of this game was set to hook old gamers who are fans of animated series and children of all ages. And it shows.
Whoever set the parameters and algorithms that control the camera in the game must have been very, very angry that day. Or sadistic. Or an angry sadist. Too bad I don’t have a time machine to go ask them.
Mi chiamo Simon Larocca, e sono un videogiocatore, collezionista e amante della cultura pop in tutte le sue forme. Vado al cinema ogni volta che posso, leggo da quando porto gli occhiali, quindi da sempre, e ho la passione per lo storytelling in tutte le sue forme, così dirompente da farla diventare una professione. Ma come direbbe Doc di Ritorno al Futuro, non ci sarebbe presente se non si guardasse al passato con rispetto e ammirazione, ed è il Simon bambino di più di trent’anni fa, anno più anno meno.
Simon Larocca
Mi chiamo Simon Larocca, e sono un videogiocatore, collezionista e amante della cultura pop in tutte le sue forme. Vado al cinema ogni volta che posso, leggo da quando porto gli occhiali, quindi da sempre, e ho la passione per lo storytelling in tutte le sue forme, così dirompente da farla diventare una professione. Ma come direbbe Doc di Ritorno al Futuro, non ci sarebbe presente se non si guardasse al passato con rispetto e ammirazione, ed è il Simon bambino di più di trent’anni fa, anno più anno meno.
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