| Jungle Hunt | |
|---|---|
 Atari 2600 manual | |
| Developer(s) | Taito (arcade) Atari, Inc. (ports) |
| Publisher(s) | Taito (arcade) Atari, Inc. (ports) Atarisoft (ports) |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM PC, VIC-20, TI-99/4A |
| Release | Jungle King Jungle Hunt Pirate Pete |
| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | 1-2 players alternating turns |
| Arcade system | Taito SJ System |
Jungle Hunt,[a] originally released as Jungle King,[b] is a side-scrolling action game developed by Taito and released for arcades in 1982. It was originally distributed as Jungle King, then quickly modified and re-released as Jungle Hunt due to a copyright dispute over the player character's likeness to Tarzan. Jungle King, along with Moon Patrol released a month earlier, is one of the first video games with parallax scrolling.
The player controls an unnamed character moving through horizontally scrolling scenes to rescue a woman from cannibals by jumping from vine to vine, swimming a crocodile-infested river, and avoiding rolling rocks. In the original Jungle King release, the loincloth-wearing character resembles Tarzan. In the rebranded Jungle Hunt, the player character is an explorer, sporting a pith helmet and safari suit. Another re-theming of the arcade version was distributed as Pirate Pete in 1982.
Home versions of Jungle Hunt were published by Atari, Inc., sometimes under the Atarisoft label, for Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit computers, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, VIC-20, and IBM PC compatibles.
- ^ "Video Game Flyers: Jungle King, Taito (USA)". The Arcade Flyer Archive. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
- ^ "Jungle King (Registration Number PA0000147344)". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ a b Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. pp. 40–46 (42). ISBN 978-4990251215.
- ^ "Video Game Flyers: Jungle King, Taito (Germany)". The Arcade Flyer Archive. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
- ^ Fujihara, Mary (25 July 1983). "Inter Office Memo". Atari. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06.
- ^ "Pirate Pete (Registration Number PA0000180640)". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
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