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Summary

The California Raisins: The Grape Escape lets you guide a lone raisin through a quirky side‑scrolling adventure, where you can walk, jump, climb vines, moonwalk with the SELECT button, and fire an endless stream of grape‑flavored jelly beans. The first four stages—The Grape Vine, The Factory, The Maize Maze, and The Juicery—can be tackled in any order, a design trick familiar from Capcom’s Mega Man and DuckTales, while the final Clouds level unlocks only after you’ve gathered the musical notes hidden in each area.

Scattered throughout the levels are ‘I’ icons for temporary invincibility, black musical notes for bonus points, Sunshine icons to refill health, and Raisinette icons that grant an extra life. You can also reveal hidden goodies by blasting at empty space or columns. Though Capcom had slated the game for a 1990 release, it was pulled when the Raisins’ popularity waned, leaving the near‑finished cartridge to become a coveted collector’s item that can fetch around $1,000 today.

Storyline

The California Raisins: The Grape Escape (often just called The Grape Escape) is a single‑player side‑scrolling action game for the NES. You guide a lone California Raisin across five distinct stages, each filled with platform challenges and enemies. The mission is to rescue the Raisins’ band and reclaim the musical notes that a mischievous gang of musicians has stolen.