Any Jungle King (1982) Taito Tarzan Editions Out There? 1st Incarnation?

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Atari licensed Jungle Hunt for their home computers and consoles. They later created a separate division (AtariSoft) to release home versions for competitors' computers and consoles.
All I know is like Donkey Kong, the Jungle Hunt port to Colecovision was way better:confused3::confused2:
They blew 2 High Profile Game Ports bad, The 2600 was through, not even including the Pacman, debacle?
The 2600 was Toasr. It would of been a pretty tough sell to try to get your parents to buy a Colecovision while already having a 2600 VCS.🤣

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You're comparing apples and oranges, as the saying goes. VCS Donkey Kong is only 4K and the programmer did the game in a mere 3 months. The programmer asked for more memory and time and was confident he could have included the other 2 screens, but he wasn't given it. Colecovision Jungle Hunt is 24K. The VCS was also released in 1977 whereas the Coleovision was released in 1982 and was literally next-gen hardware.

VCS Pac-Man was just a lousy version, done by a programmer who didn't care much for the original game. VCS Ms. Pac-Man came out a year later with 2x the memory and was done by the same folks responsible for the original Ms. Pac-Man.
 
You're comparing apples and oranges, as the saying goes. VCS Donkey Kong is only 4K and the programmer did the game in a mere 3 months. The programmer asked for more memory and time and was confident he could have included the other 2 screens, but he wasn't given it. Colecovision Jungle Hunt is 24K. The VCS was also released in 1977 whereas the Coleovision was released in 1982 and was literally next-gen hardware.

VCS Pac-Man was just a lousy version, done by a programmer who didn't care much for the original game. VCS Ms. Pac-Man came out a year later with 2x the memory and was done by the same folks responsible for the original Ms. Pac-Man.
Doesn't matter, the simple fact was that by 1983 the 2600 had gotten a bad reputation for bad popular game ports. They were essentially over.
Good luck getting a parent to buy a ColecoVision or Intelevision after kids had probably just gotten a 2600 a year or 2 earliear. The 2600 was toast. I wouldn't even of attempted it.🤣
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Doesn't matter, the simple fact was that by 1983 the 2600 had gotten a bad reputation for bad popular game ports. They were essentially over.
Good luck getting a parent to buy a ColecoVision or Intelevision after kids had probably just gotten a 2600 a year or 2 earliear. The 2600 was toast. I wouldn't even of attempted it.🤣
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I had never owned any Atari games or Atari consoles until I had the expansion port 1 for the ColecoVision. :cool:
 
I had never owned any Atari games or Atari consoles until I had the expansion port 1 for the ColecoVision. :cool:
Yeah, Colecovision was pretty cool to have in 1982. Didn't have many friends that had it, but you could tell the games had better graphics and gameplay. The writing was on the wall for the 2600 after Colecovision came out.
I think the $175 dollar Price + Tax was a little sreep. You were looking at basically 200 bucks. Ithink Donkey Kong was included in the bundle? But from what I remember those new cartridges were starting to get pricey 30-40 bucks for the top game releases.

So your talking probably 300.00 bucks to start off with a decent library. That dog just wasn't going to hunt with my parents. Obviously a lot of people just went the pay per play arcade route. You could play alot of Arcade games with 300 bucks. Actual Arcade games too, not some half assed home game port. That was my thinking at the time for the most part. Pretty much passed on everything up until a family member bought an NES, Which eventually led to a Sega Genesis. Like I said alot of things changed from 77 to 83 mainly the prevailance of Cable TV and the VCR with Movie Rental establishments. So, that was that until the NES showed up.
The Home Video game market severely miscalculated what was going to happen by putting out subpar game ports.
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Look at that smug S.O.B. Pitfall Harry Swinging on that vine across them Crorks with a big rainbow trailing him.
He sure wasn't no Jungle King
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We had Jungle King at Just Games. Jungle Hunt is too weird to me simply because I grew up with Jungle King. I believe the Galloping Ghost has a Jungle King now.
 
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