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| Kangaroo | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Kangaroo_arcadeflyer.png) North American arcade flyer | |
| Developer(s) | Sun Electronics GCC (5200) |
| Publisher(s) | Sun Electronics Atari, Inc. Atari Program Exchange |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Atari 8-bit, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 |
| Release | 1982: Arcade 1983: 2600, 5200, Atari 8-bit |
| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | 1-2 players alternating turns |
Kangaroo (Japanese: カンガルー) is a 1982 four-screen platform game released as an arcade video game by Sun Electronics and distributed in North America by Atari, Inc.[1] Kangaroo is one of the first arcade games similar in style to Donkey Kong without being a direct clone. The player takes the role of a boxing glove-wearing mother kangaroo who is trying to rescue her joey from fruit-throwing monkeys. Jumping is integral to the game, but there is no jump button. Instead, the player pushes up on the joystick—or up and diagonally—to leap. The arcade version of Kangaroo has visible glitches in the graphics, such as sprites briefly flickering.[2]
Atari published ports for the Atari 2600 and Atari 5200. The 5200 version was ported to Atari 8-bit computers and sold through the Atari Program Exchange.
- ^ "Overseas Readers Column: Sun, Atari Game Pact On "Kangaroo" Video - For W.Germany Sun Licensed Löwen". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 188. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 May 1982. p. 26.
- ^ Brundage, Darren (June 27, 2007). "Kangaroo". The Atari Times.