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.
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Congo Bongo
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 hi Show full summary
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.
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- Sega Enterprises, Inc.
- Publisher
- Texas Instruments Incorporated, Coleco, Sega Enterprises, Inc.
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- Standalone
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- Multiplayer, Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
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- Action
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Platform releases
- Arcade 1983
- Apple II 1984
- ColecoVision 1984
- Commodore C64/128/MAX 1983
- Atari 2600 1983
- Commodore VIC-20 1983
- DOS 1984
- Intellivision 1983
- MSX 1983
- Texas Instruments TI-99 1983
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