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Jungle Hunt
Taito
June 30, 1982
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Platform, Adventure, ArcadeDevelopers
TaitoRelease Date
June 30, 1982 (42 years and 11 months ago)Publishers
Polyvox, Atari, Taito, AtariFranchises
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Jungle Hunt is side-scrolling arcade game produced and released by Taito in 1982. It was initially released as Jungle King. Jungle Hunt is one of the first video games to use parallax scrolling. The player controls an unnamed jungle explorer sporting a pith helmet and a safari suit. The player attempts to rescue his girl from a tribe of hungry cannibals by swinging from vine to vine, swimming a crocodile-infested river, jumping over or ducking beneath rolling rocks, then releasing the girl before she is lowered into a boiling cauldron. Home versions were released for the Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, ColecoVision, VIC-20, and IBM PC. The PC version was developed by Sierra On-Line and is incompatible with anything except an original IBM PC/XT with a CGA video card. In the Atari-ported versions the hero is named Sir Dudley, and the girl, married to Sir Dudley, is Lady Penelope.
Genres
Platform, Adventure, ArcadePlatforms
Commodore VIC-20, ColecoVision, Arcade, Atari 2600, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, Apple II, Texas Instruments TI-99Developers
TaitoRelease Date
June 30, 1982 (42 years and 11 months ago)Publishers
Polyvox, Atari, Taito, AtariFranchises
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