Episode 14 : Jungle King (1982) Taito

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Summer camp, you wake up and your girlfriend is not beside you anymore. You immediately realize that she has been kidnapped by cannibals and yara yara yara... who you gonna call? Jungle King ...who else?

Jungle King, re-released as Jungle Hunt, is a side-scrolling action game developed by Taito and released for arcades in 1982.
As soon the game starts, Jungle King performs a suspiciously familiar scratchy shout. Impostor! Exactly, Jungle King was Tarzan badly disguised which created a lot of trouble. Taito quickly modified and re-released the game as Jungle Hunt due to a copyright dispute over the player character's likeness to Tarzan.
As a young boy, this game was my favorite thing ever. I couldn't wait to play again and again ...on my mom's bankroll...of course.
The player controls an unnamed character moving through horizontally scrolling scenes to rescue a woman from cannibals by jumping from vine to vine, swimming down a crocodile-infested river, and avoiding rolling rocks.

The game play is split into four scenes, which have different objectives.
In Scene 1, the explorer is required to swing from vine to vine. This is accomplished by pressing the action key when two vines swing closely enough together. Timing is critical, and missing the vine causes the explorer to fall to the jungle floor, losing a life.
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Scene 2 has Tarzan-not-Tarzan navigating a crocodile-infested river. The explorer can attack the crocodiles from below with his knife, unless their mouths are open. The explorer must return to the surface periodically to breathe, where he cannot attack the crocodiles. Bubbles periodically rise from the bottom of the river, which can trap the explorer and carry him to the surface, potentially hitting crocodiles on the way.
Scene 3 has the explorer dodging various-sized boulders, rolling and bouncing towards him as he runs up the side of a volcano. Timing is critical again as the differently sized boulders bounce at different speeds and heights, requiring the explorer to either jump or duck at the appropriate moment.
In the final scene, the player who is definitely not Tarzan, must evade cannibals while attempting to get to a woman being lowered into a flaming cauldron.
After the player rescues the woman, the word "Congratulations!" appears, which is then followed by a message saying "I Love You!!!" followed by the woman kissing the explorer. One can imagine them falling madly in love, getting married and then going on a beautiful honeymoon to the jungle. Where she gets kidnapped. Again...
Further game play just repeats the previous scenes with increased difficulty. After our hero makes it to the end scene the first time, a cannibal appears in the tree of the cauldron scene and throws spears at the player, who is still definitely not Tarzan.
Now I leave you to watch the game...

Well, I guess he's not Crocodile Dundee either.
Maybe the real lesson to be learned here is to only go jungle exploring on your own. Don't bring anyone else with you, thanks for watching and see you soon.

Pfff...copyright....give me a break...