Rupert and the Ice Castle Rupert and the Ice Castle Rupert and the Ice Castle is a video game developed by Taskset and published by Bug-Byte in 1986. It was released for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The game is based on Rupert Bear, a British cartoon and comics strip character created in 1920 by artist Mary Tourtel. In this platform arcade game the player takes the role of Rupert Bear. Rupert's friends Bingo, Edward Trunk, Algy and Bill Badger have all been frozen by Jack Frost's (one of the characters of the story) evil sister, Jenny; while they were visiting Jack at the
Rupert Bear serif typeface) with a more modern Rupert to tie-in with the CGI-animation "Rupert Bear, Follow the Magic...", began. The Rupert Annual for 1960 contained a story called "Rupert and the Diamond Leaf", in which he visits "Coon Island", whose inhabitants are little "Coons". The Coons previously appeared on the cover of "The New Rupert: The Daily Express Annual, 1954" and in the interior story "Rupert and the Castaway". The first appearance was in the 1946 soft cover summer special "Rupert on Coon Island". Rupert appeared in Paul McCartney's 1984 music video "We All Stand Together"; McCartney also made an animated