A game by My Owl Software for PC and Xbox 360, originally released in 2012.
In the original
Apple Jack, the titular hero – a guy with an apple for a head – treks across the UK in search of his missing dog, contending with numerous pandas and agitated washing machines along the way. But since his grand cross-country adventure, Jack’s life has become a bit droll. He works in a sterile little office at a plastics company, sitting bored at his computer and missing the days of adventure that seem well behind him. But then, inspiration strikes. He walks into the middle of the office, strips naked (minus his tie, shoes, and socks), crashes through the window, and runs out into the rolling hills beyond. And so the new adventure begins with a nearly naked Apple Jack heading off to enjoy a day at the beach.
Hardcore apple-man nudity aside, much of the game will be very familiar to fans of the original. Apple Jack has a 2x variable height jump, a wall slide, and a wall jump. He also has a slow midair direction change similar to our favorite platforming plumber from
Super Mario Bros., and the ability to duck down and roll through small spaces (rolling just his apple head) similar our favorite bounty hunter heroine’s morph ball from the
Metroid series.
