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 of its Lunchbox program. A selection of the episodes have been released on a number of VHS videos, no official DVD releases are so far available as of 2017. In 1991, Rupert Bear got his own 2D cartoon British, French and Canadian animated television series with 65 episodes over five seasons (13 per season) produced by Nelvana (Canada), Ellipse (France) and Television South (TVS) for the first season (13 episodes), with Scottish TV taking over control from season 2 when Television South lost its ITV franchise. The show greatly followed the style and tone Bestall established in the Rupert newspaper