LOL I thought so as well

Just like SEGA's next great animal mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog!

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I remember being amazed by its graphics. However, showing off those graphics led to needlessly complicated and overly chaotic designs. There are more object *types* per stage than are justified by gameplay;; I'd guess the priority was instead to show off a variety of colorful graphics. The level designs themselves are extremely basic; the first level feels pointlessly wandering, but the other three are pretty much "go in a straight line from the bottom left to the top right (while ignoring the rest of the screen). The first stage has barrels coming down the screen at you, a *single* snake that you can safely walk past, and two types of monkeys. The second stage has scorpions you can pretty much walk past, snakes that are an actual obstacle, and a hippo that you use as a platform. The third stage has open pits (that you can safely duck into), closed pits, water pits, moles that open and close pits, and rhinos that ignore all terrain while freely charging at you in eight directions. The fourth stage is a simultaneously more convoluted and simplified Frogger knock-off with slow lily pads, faster hippos, fish, and rhinos. The whole gameplay side of the game just isn't particularly well designed.

wow an marble madness will use that view a year later after this.

Suprise it never came out for Sega Master System or Genesis .

@@joezar33 opportunity missed.

Felt the same way until I played it a lot and appreciated how brilliant each stage is. They get more and more challenging but never impossible. It's worthy of being apart of the Golden age of gaming

Fantastic!

My brother and I had a Colecovision and no one gave a shit. Too bad you weren't around! lol

@@thatwasprettyneat Right!😂🙏🤟😜🤟

yeah Smurfs on Coleco melted my face. great music, and it was a very good system

Glad you like them!

That's fantastic, thanks! :-)

Companies did a lot of false advertising when it came to graphics especially around that time frame.

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Especially Parker Bros. I recall looking at game magazines and they would have full-page ads showing screenshots from the various home consoles. And none of them looked like what you purchased. Like ordering a Big Mac and what you receive looks nothing like the pic on the menu board.

@@kbramlett6877 That's a great analogy with the big Mac and box art videogames. A lot of times companies would also put the best version on the box and then just put a sticker on the front for whichever version was inside. The graphics on the back would be for the Amiga or some other more powerful machine but inside would be the Commodore 64 or Amstrad version.

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries can you make a video of the history of Atari's Food Fight?

Thank you very much

I appreciate that, check the archives has there are over 200 documentaries available

It’s a head scratcher Yie Ar never got a reboot given the popularity of the fighting genre even now

Thank you very much!

Cool, I did not know about the glitch. Thanks

Hope you like it!

I certainly did. Thanks again for covering Space Ace too. I appreciate it.

I don't know if you're old enough to remember but this was common practice back in the day. Companies would usually create one box for all different versions and use the best one as an example and and put stickers on the front of the box indicating which one is inside. It was extremely rampant over in Europe on the home computer side with the Amstrad and 64

Thank you my friend

@PatmanQC, Thanks for the details! Yes, I grew up with the Colecovision in the early 80s and remember the box screenshots were sometimes of the Arcade version, for computer games too. Thanks! Keep up the awesome videos, Patman!

@@BlackArroToons Thank you. I can recall companies putting the Amiga screenshots on the box for a Commodore 64 game. LOL

Food fight is another great game

LOL, indeed

Thank you very much. People of asked about that for quite some time and I've actually come up with a couple of things that I am hoping will get the produced.

That must've been something

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Yeah it was a blast. Had a pool on the middle floor deck and we would dive out of our 3rd storey bedroom balconies into it to wake up, then dry off for breakfast. Then down the staircase with rockgarden and waterfall feature to the floating garage. It was a PARTY house, but we weren't allowed into one room or one cupboard in the garage.

I knew there were similar but didn't realize how so. Thanks

Absolutely, thanks for watching

Thank you so much

Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks a lot. You are right, just like donkey Kong it is a bit difficult but not impossible

You and me both, the disk version was fantastic

That's actually a pretty neat idea. Would it slide around a lot or did it stay put in one spot pretty good?

they had no idea that people would be so stupid that they wouldn't know how to use it properly...it worked great for me and it was awesome with Burger Time

@@anthonysalvaro2979 I was so much better using the intellevision disc on Burgertime than I am on the arcade version. I even have the arcade1up version at home and it’s harder as well.

They actually sold these snap on joysticks for the intellevision at the store but I never tried it.

@@anthonysalvaro2979 I know, I never had a problem with the intellivision control.

I have not talked to him a number of years so I don't know if he does or not. It was amazing, especially the graphics

LOL, I always enjoyed the arcade game

I agree, similar to zaxxon it still holds up

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I would say this has more natural looking colours, Zaxxon has some odd colour choices. Never understood why Rhino's are blue in this game however!

Thank you my friend but no, you rock!

I have not done an entire video on the Texas instruments. In between my Commodore Vic 20 and Commodore 64 my dad bought me a TI which I think was from a friend of his as I don't really recall where I got it or even how. I do know I had a few games for it and liked it for what it was

LOL, that made me smile :-)

It's a lot of fun I agree

Hopefully it was the disc version that you played and not the original cartridge version on the 64 :-)

I definitely had the better version. I remember watching Starcade and yelling at the people playing Congo Bongo. It was the easiest game to play because u got points just for walking. Still the contestants would screw it up!

Some of these commercials they did in the early eighties proves that drugs were running wild

The graphics are fantastic at the time and really stood out

Very cool never seen one of those

It’s very possible it was just some monstrosity they put together 🤷‍♂️😂

Crazy Kong is awesome. I love Mario's "hiya" kung-fu sound he makes when he jumps.

Regarding Crazy Kong, there is quite a history regarding that game. Here is what I pulled from my MAME description. Crazy Kong is not a bootleg of "Donkey Kong"!! Falcon DID have a license from Nintendo, but it was NOT for the U.S. Crazy Kong was supposed to be for sale outside the U.S. (South America, Europe, etc.), but the lag in production of arcade DK's by Nintendo for a 3-month period during 1981-82 made a demand for any DK type game go through the roof. At this time, Nintendo of America was moving from NY-NJ to Redmond WA and there was a 4-month backlog on orders. This opened the door for the illegal Crazy Kongs to fill the demand. Approximately 20, 000 Crazy Kong were distributed illegally in the U.S. The main difference between Crazy Kong and "Donkey Kong" is the sound, and color capabilities. Crazy Kong ran on hardware that had the same processor as "Donkey Kong", but its video capabilities were lacking, and it had a totally different sound chip. Basically what all this means is that Crazy Kong had terrible sound and some definite strangeness in the color area. The background music is missing entirely, and most of the sound effects have been changed. For example, in Crazy Kong, Mario makes a 'Hiya!' sound when he jumps, instead of the 'Boing!' that he makes in "Donkey Kong". The graphics use slightly different colors, which change from level to level. The Kong animations are also different, and often do not match up with the in-game action. There are also mild changes in gameplay. Kong doesn't toss out nearly as many barrels, and there are other mild changes such as gaps in platforms that were not in the original, and the manner in which the elevators work has changed as well. There were lots of different Crazy Kong cabinets. The most common one was similar in design to the "Donkey Kong" cabinet, but the artwork was more realistic, and the monitor bezel had a circular clear area, as opposed to the rectangle that most games had. Crazy Kong could also be found in cocktail format. These were usually conversions and were only decorated with an instruction card. Bootlegs of this game are known as "Monkey Donkey" and "BiG KONG". Some other bootlegs under the same name were made by Jeutel (France), Alca, and Orca. A special bootleg was also made on the "Scramble" hardware.

I always enjoyed it. Never went to fun spot although I did go to galloping ghost last month for the first time

Thank you very much!

The 2nd version or disconversion is definitely the best.. I always enjoyed this game as well

Mine too! Thanks

Thanks, bomb Jack is something I would have to look into

Yes, thanks for the info

Yes. I always knew this game as Tip Top.....

LOL, comment of the day

Thanks so do I

i ALWAYS ENJOYED IT AS WELL

It was quite popular around here

Fantastic, thanks for sharing. I love hearing about videogame memories

Considering most other versions only had two levels, the Coleco was top-notch back in the day. Similar to the conversions of donkey Kong with three of the four levels

It is fun, you should try it

I agree, that wasn't so good on the 64 at least the cartridge version

Have fun

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries ok I will. 😀👍🎮

Lol good call

Yes it was

LOL good call

Yes but I think it was spelled differently with a K

I had a Texas instruments as well but don't recall which games I had

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I was 5 so most of the games I had were math and reading games. I barely remember it but for some reason Congo Bongo is one I do have memories of.

I wasn't aware that thanks

Thank you my friend

documentaries you're welcome

It was not very good on the Atari in my opinion but other people seemed to enjoy it

Thank you :-)

Hope you enjoy it

And the odd thing is, it's the one that plays the best out of all the homeports back in 1983

LOL, I didn't know that. Thanks

It's a fun game.

Frogger yes, crystal castles came out the same year as this game so I doubt that was an inspiration