Fix-It Felix Jr.

Sega Genesis
Fix-It Felix, Jr. is a platformer game in the Wreck-It Ralph universe. It takes place in Niceland, where Ralph, Felix, several Nicelanders and Q*Bert characters live.At the beginning of a game, Ralph climbs up a hotel, breaking windows as he goes. It is the player's job as Felix, to repair each w...
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Developer
Future Driver
Released on
2013
Size
1 Player
Version
Sega Genesis
Requirements
Sega Genesis
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Action
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Not Rated
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Fix-It Felix, Jr. is a platformer game in the Wreck-It Ralph universe. It takes place in Niceland, where Ralph, Felix, several Nicelanders and Q*Bert characters live.At the beginning of a game, Ralph climbs up a hotel, breaking windows as he goes. It is the player’s job as Felix, to repair each window with his magical hammer, while avoiding bricks that fall off when Ralph punches, and Duck Hunt-inspired ducks that fly horizontally across the screen at random. On some screens, if the player waits long enough, a Nicelander will appear in a window to drop off a pie which Felix can collect for a period of invincibility and other effects depending on the version of the game. As the game progresses, the enemies become more numerous and faster, and there are more windows to repair. What’s more, Ralph will smash and break windows that the player has already repaired, forcing them to go back and fix them. Higher levels introduce rather increasing numbers of randomly-placed obstacles such as purple flowerbeds which prevent Felix from jumping up or down between two windows. The versions made available online also feature open window shutters for blocking Felix horizontally, while the arcade version instead has a number of large piles of bricks fall between two windowsills and get stuck starting in the fifth round. Felix can jump over these brick piles to get across the row, but they will kill him if he steps into them or jumps into them from below.

The story of the game is that Ralph is destroying Niceland Apartments in retaliation for the Nicelanders bulldozing his hollow-stump home in the forest to build their apartment building and leaving him in the town dump. When Felix fixes every window on the screen, Ralph climbs higher and reveals more floors of broken windows. When Felix fixes the highest screen (with penthouse visible on the arcade version), a cutscene plays where the Nicelanders join Ralph and Felix on the roof and award Felix a medal (which floats down from behind a pair of parting clouds), a pie, and a kiss on the cheek. The Nicelanders then lift up Ralph and hurl him off the building into a mud puddle. Finally, Ralph comes back to try again in a new level.

Fix-It Felix Jr.

Overview & History

Originally conceived as the fictional 1982 arcade cabinet that sparked Disney’s animated film Wreck-It Ralph, Fix-It Felix Jr. eventually received a genuine retro-console conversion courtesy of developer Retrotainment Games and publisher Bitbox. Designed specifically for the Sega Genesis hardware, this port captures the nostalgic 16-bit aesthetic while expanding upon the original single-screen premise. The narrative mirrors the movie's inciting incident: Nice Land residents have evicted the misunderstood giant Wreck-It Ralph from his home atop the Niceland Apartments, prompting him to go on a destructive rampage. As the titular handy-man Felix Jr., players must ascend the crumbling facade of the apartment building, repairing every shattered window while dodging falling bricks, flying ducks, and Ralph’s taunting interference across increasingly complex stages.

Gameplay Features & Mechanics

Unlike the vertically-scrolling platformers typical of the Genesis, Fix-It Felix Jr. challenges players with single-screen, multi-tier puzzle-action gameplay. Felix stands before a grid of windows, each requiring two strikes of his magic golden hammer to fully repair. Hazards constantly rain down from the top of the screen; players must time their lateral movements and vertical leaps between scaffolding ledges to avoid stumbling on moving bricks or getting swiped by Ralph. Collecting the occasional glowing pie grants temporary invincibility and a speed boost, allowing Felix to dash across glass panes without fear. As stages progress, windows begin to sprout shutters that require multiple hits, and windows repaired earlier in the round will randomly shatter again if left unattended too long. Completing a stage triggers a bonus round where players must snatch flying pastry items before the timer expires, culminating in a triumphant cinematic where Felix and the Nicelanders physically toss the antagonist off the roof.

Keyboard Controls

  • Arrow Keys / D-Pad: Move Felix left/right along ledges and climb up/down windows
  • Action Keys: Attack / Jump (Use hammer to fix windows and leap between scaffolding)
  • Enter: Start / Pause

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