Congo Bongo
- Genres
- Platform Arcade
- Platforms
- DOS · Commodore C64/128/MAX · MSX · Arcade · Atari 2600 · Atari 8-bit · Atari 5200 · Intellivision · ColecoVision · Commodore VIC-20 · Apple II · Texas Instruments TI-99
- Release
- Arcade 1983 Month only Atari 2600 1983 Month only Commodore C64/128/MAX 1983 Month only Commodore VIC-20 1983 Month only Intellivision 1983 Month only MSX 1983 Month only Texas Instruments TI-99 1983 Month only Apple II 1984 Month only ColecoVision 1984 Month only DOS 1984 Month only
- Credits
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C
Coleco
TI
Texas Instruments Incorporated
SE
Sega Electronics
SE
Sega Enterprises, Inc.
- Board status
- —
About
Congo Bongo is an isometric platform arcade game released by Sega in 1983. The game has come to be seen as Sega's answer to the highly successful Donkey Kong game that was released two years prior. The player takes the role of a red-nosed safari hunter who tries to catch an ape named "Bongo". The hunter seeks Bongo to exact revenge for an apparent practical joke in which Bongo set fire to the hunter's tent, giving him a literal "hotfoot". The game was named by Peter W. Gorrie who was the CFO of Sega at that time.
