History VideoGame / ConkersBadFurDay

In 2015, the original Nintendo 64 version was re-released in the ''Rare Replay'' [[CompilationRerelease compilation]] for the UsefulNotes/XboxOne.[[note]]Likely in part due to Nintendo 64 emulation being far easier than Xbox OG emulation, which still hadn't been achieved at the time. ''VideoGame/GrabbedByTheGhoulies'' was actually ported to the Xbox One instead of being emulated in the collection.[[/note]] In 2018, ''Live & Reloaded'' was added to the Xbox One's backwards compatibility, making both incarnations of the game available on the same platform for the first time.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} See this squirrel go in a bender, and you'll never look at squirrels the same way again.]]'']]

* BleachedUnderpants: Inverted, as it was coming off of ''Conker's Pocket Tales'' on the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor, which is an inoffensive and lighthearted game. ''Bad Fur Day'' was originally touted as ''Twelve Tales: Conker 64'', which would have continued the style from ''Pocket Tales'', but obviously that was not meant to be (to the point that when the game was first hinted at by ''Electronic Gaming Monthly''[='s=] April issue, it was perceived as that year's April Fools gag).

* RuderAndCruder: ''Conker'' started out as a family-friendly franchise. Conker first appeared as a racer in ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'' and had a UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor game called ''Conker's Pocket Tales'', both of these games being E-rated. Conker was also planned to have his own UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 game, ''Twelve Tales: Conker 64''. However, when critics were accusing Rareware of making games for little children, Rareware scrapped the game and retooled it into ''Bad Fur Day'', which was aimed at mature audiences. It uses tons of profanity to distance itself from ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''. Its remake, ''VideoGame/ConkerLiveAndReloaded'' used even more profanity for the multiplayer maps, although it's censored until the player completes the campaign mode.

''Conker's Bad Fur Day'' is one of ten UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} games released in March 2001. A sequel to the little-known ''VideoGame/ConkersPocketTales'', a kid-friendly UsefulNotes/GameBoy platformer, this game was likewise intended to be a children's game, first under the name ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEuFNl4s9yI Conker's Quest]]'', and later ''VideoGame/TwelveTalesConker64''. However, after too many comments about them making yet another cutesy platformer, Creator/{{Rare}} had enough, and they decided to change course. Going in the opposite direction, instead of yet another colorful all-ages romp in the vein of [[VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing their]] [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie other]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 N64 titles]], they were going to make a "controversial" game aimed at adults and older teens.

A few years later, after Rare was bought out by [[Creator/XboxGameStudios Microsoft]], a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of the game, ''VideoGame/ConkerLiveAndReloaded'', came out for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}. Tropes exclusive to that version go there.

** Similarly, at the beginning of the Uga Buga chapter, the music is briefly a grand dramatic piece with horns and a OneWomanWail, before Conker complains to the Maestro ("Isn't that a bit too dramatic?") and it changes to something with more of a beat.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Conker ends up becoming king and has all the riches he could ever want, but he realizes that this isn't what he wanted. He'd wanted to go home with Berri (who was killed off by Don Weaso), and now feels remorse that he didn't save her when he could have during the time freeze. He ends the game with the legendary quote: "You don't know what you have until it's gone." Then he repeats "Gone" repeatedly during the credits as tragic music plays in the background.]]

* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler:Conker kills the Xenomorph ripoff and becomes King, but Berri remains dead. Aside from this, Conker's royalty means absolutely nothing as he's surrounded by people he despises and his kingdom is full of morons. Conker [[DrowningMySorrows turns to liquor]] to help but it fails entirely, cementing that Conker literally now has nothing- no love, no future and nothing to dull the pain. Falling into another drunken bender, Conker wanders off from the Cock and Plucker, this time in the [[SequelHook opposite direction.]]]]

''Conker's Bad Fur Day'' is one of ten UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} games released in March 2001. A sequel to the little-known ''VideoGame/ConkersPocketTales'', a kid-friendly UsefulNotes/GameBoy platformer, this game was likewise intended to be a children's game, first under the name ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEuFNl4s9yI Conker's Quest]]'', and later ''VideoGame/TwelveTalesConker64''. However, after too many comments about them making yet another cutesy platformer, Creator/{{Rare}} had had enough, and they decided to change course. Going in the opposite direction, instead of yet another colorful all-ages romp in the vein of [[VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing their]] [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie other]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 N64 titles]], they were going to make a "controversial" game aimed at adults and older teens.

* BrokenAesop: The penultimate chapter "It's War" ends with a somber conversation between Conker and the General reflecting on the [[WarIsHell brutality of war]], with the General being very critical of the fact the World's leaders will stay out of the line of fire while sending in innocents to die. All well and good until you remember [[{{Hypocite}} the General is guilty of what he's criticizing]] as he forcefully drafted Conker into the conflict by knocking him unconscious and is never shown to engage in combat until after Conker has already destroyed the superweapon.

* BrokenAesop: The penultimate chapter "It's War" ends with a somber conversation between Conker and the General reflecting on the [[WarIsHell brutality of war]], with the General being very critical of the fact the World's leaders will stay out of the line of fire while sending in innocents to die. All well and good until you remember [[Hypocite the General is guilty of what he's criticizing]] as he forcefully drafted Conker into the conflict by knocking him unconscious and is never shown to engage in combat until after Conker has already destroyed the superweapon.

* EasyLevelTrick: The final segment of It's War can be beaten by gliding over the fence.

* RemilitarizedZone: The It's War chapter. Conker is forcefully recruited to fight the Tediz along with other squirrels in the former's military island.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Rodent.

* KingKoopaCopy: Parodied with the Panther King. Despite being a big, menacing tyrant with an army of {{Wicked Weasel}}s, a [[EvilSoundsDeep horrifying]] voice, and even a similar facial structure to Bowser, he's an incompetent manchild who [[spoiler:doesn't even survive long enough to be the FinalBoss]].

* HerrDoktor: Professor Von Kriplespac has a German accent.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} A hangover's never pretty. But a squirrel with a hangover... that's just obscene.]]'']]