Platform: Arcade
Region: NTSC-U
Country: United States of America
Developer(s): Ikegami Tsushinki | Sega
Publishers(s): Sega
ReleaseDate: 1983-03-23
Players: 2
Co-op: No
Congo Bongo
Congo Bongo is a 1983 arcade isometric platformer video game developed by Sega (co-developed by Ikegami Tsushinki) and released by Sega Enterprises Inc. in the USA on March 23, 1983. Congo Bongo has similar elements and gameplay to Nintendo's Donkey Kong from 1981, with the isometric perspective from Sega's Zaxxon released in Japan in early 1982. Both Congo Bongo and Donkey Kong involve primates who throw objects at the player from a vantage point atop a structure. Both games involve a large-nosed protagonist whose only ability is to jump. Both games have four different, single-screen stages The goal of the first stage in both games is to climb to the top. Even the graphics of the bonus timer are similar to Donkey Kong's. Stages In the first stage, the hunter must avoid coconuts thrown by Bongo and he has to climb a series of cliffs to reach the ape, while at the same time shaking off three monkeys that try to throw the hunter off the mountain. In the second stage, the hunter must cross a swamp platform by riding on the backs of diving and swimming hippopotamuses and avoiding both poisonous snakes and scorpions. The third stage requires the hunter to cross a plain and crouch into holes to evade the horns of charging rhinoceroses, while climbing up large flights of stairs to proceed to the next area. In the fourth and final stage, the hunter crosses a second swamp that with lily pads, fish, and hippos, to reach a gate of charging rhinos that are blocking the entrance to Bongo in a hot tub. The game repeats from the first level with increased difficulty.
ESRB Rating: E - Everyone
Genre(s): Platform
