Jungle Hunt
- Genres
- Platform Adventure Arcade
- Platforms
- DOS · Commodore C64/128/MAX · Arcade · Atari 2600 · ColecoVision · Commodore VIC-20 · Apple II · Texas Instruments TI-99 · Legacy Computer
- Release
- Arcade Jun 23, 1982 Arcade Aug 1982 Exact Atari 2600 Oct 1983 Exact Atari 2600 1983 Month only ColecoVision 1983 Month only Commodore C64/128/MAX 1983 Month only DOS 1983 Month only Arcade 1983 Month only Legacy Computer 1983 Month only Apple II Apr 1984 Exact Commodore VIC-20 1984 Month only Texas Instruments TI-99 1984 Month only
- Credits
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SO
Sierra On-Line
A
Atari
T
Taito
A
Atarisoft
P
Polyvox
- Board status
- —
About
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 everything 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.
