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Daze Before Christmas

In Daze Before Christmas, you're Santa. According to the game's Christmas calender, you have 24 areas to explore such as factories, workshops, caves, and more. Each area is filled with nasty enemies like…

31 December 1994

Daze Before Christmas is a platform developed by Funcom, released 31 December 1994 on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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What Daze Before Christmas is

Daze Before Christmas is a platform game developed by Funcom and released in 1994. It was published by SUNSOFT. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Christmas is a time where people get together and give others presents and spend all day eating food. But there's only one problem this year. You see, while Santa was sleeping in his bed, the cold and evil snowman spooked all the elves away, and the Timekeeper has stolen Santa's plans from his house. There won't be any Christmas if Santa doesn't stop them.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Daze Before Christmas launched on 31 December 1994, within three weeks of Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw and Mario Andretti Racing.

Released around the same time: Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw, Mario Andretti Racing.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Daze Before Christmas come out?
Daze Before Christmas was released on 31 December 1994 for Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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