The History of Congo Bongo - arcade console documentary

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  • @chrislaustin
    @chrislaustin ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Congo Bongo had some of the best graphics of the time, and they still hold up well today, for sure a better looking game than Donkey Kong. Sadly, while the game had similar mechanics to DK(running and jumping), the isometric view was it's downfall. DK was easy to understand and play, but very hard to master, but even with the most basic of skills, you could see all 4 boards with some effort. CB was very hard to just clear the first stage, let alone see all 4 stages. I get why they went that route, as to not to closely mimic DK, but Zaxxon is one of the few isometric games that got it right, and had good success to boot. Thanks Again Patman another great video.

    • @BainesMkII
      @BainesMkII ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @nemopouncey3827
      @nemopouncey3827 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @joezar33
      @joezar33 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @nemopouncey3827
      @nemopouncey3827 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@joezar33 opportunity missed.

    • @joesocool1
      @joesocool1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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

  • @Emudude1963
    @Emudude1963 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    The fact that this was made to stick it to Nintendo is awesome.

  • @willkelmanpenapena3551
    @willkelmanpenapena3551 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Just in time, I needed a documentary so i wouldn't get bored while doing midnight job

  • @Krullmatic
    @Krullmatic ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I've never played this game. Growing up though, if someone owned a Colecovision, they were the coolest kid around. I had the 2600, one of my friends had the Intellivision, and you're right about the controllers, I couldn't stand them, so I never went over there too often lol. Then, one of my other had gotten the Colecovision when it first came out. I was gobsmacked and mesmerized! It was the best home system I'd ever seen! Needless to say, I spent A LOT of time over at his house over the summer. It's so funny looking at it now compared to modern systems. But, at the time, it was the best system I'd ever seen. I love the nostalgia. Being taken back to that time with no responsibilities, no bills and just worrying about what great new system, or game was coming out.

    • @thatwasprettyneat
      @thatwasprettyneat ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Krullmatic
      @Krullmatic ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thatwasprettyneat Right!😂🙏🤟😜🤟

    • @mccallosone4903
      @mccallosone4903 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @BlackburnBigdragon
    @BlackburnBigdragon ปีที่แล้ว +7

    10:58 Oh man. I remember this commercial. Damn... I'm old now. I love how it says "Based on the Commodore 64 graphics". The actual graphics were a LOT more primitive. And there were only two levels to complete. The adventurer guy was pretty much a block shape with a hat on it. It was a fun game, but it didn't look like that animation. Well, I suppose that this is better than the way mobile games are advertised, where they show all this footage, and supposed game-play, and they aren't even remotely the games that they're advertising.

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @kbramlett6877
      @kbramlett6877 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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.

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

    • @DarkPitTheFallenAngel
      @DarkPitTheFallenAngel ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @tomevil6
    @tomevil6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It always makes my day better when I see a new PatmanQC video!

  • @BlakeC27
    @BlakeC27 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A family friend had the cartridge version on the C64 and it is the only C64 version I'd seen. So thanks for sharing the other C64 version in the video Patrick.

  • @mattmtdc
    @mattmtdc ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love all the random bits of information you dig up for this (and every) History of video you make. So awesome!

  • @sonicr360
    @sonicr360 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Yet again a great video and I was surprised it was converted to Vic-20! But at least it allowed people to play the arcade game at home.... if you close one eye and maybe stand 6 feet back :) - Thank you for sharing this! Looking forward to many more.

  • @ikenosis8160
    @ikenosis8160 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Monkey Pox is strong with this one...

  • @asa-punkatsouthvinland7145
    @asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Congo bongo has always been one of my favorite arcade games! I used to be atrociously bad at it as a kid 😂

  • @ng8tvinfluence78
    @ng8tvinfluence78 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the detail you put into your content. Amazing research! Great work, I live your vids!!

  • @cargoman7045
    @cargoman7045 ปีที่แล้ว

    Definitely needed a vid today. Thank ya brother! And RIP Judo Gene.

  • @Siktah
    @Siktah ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey! When I was younger I landed a sweet gig as a housesitter for Iwasaki. Specifically his ocean front 3 storey mansion. Rent was $220 a week and I could do anything I wanted in that place.

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That must've been something

    • @Siktah
      @Siktah ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

  • @white-dragon4424
    @white-dragon4424 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another classic rare arcade game, at least here in the UK. One of my favourite games. I only found it once, as usual in the seaside resort of Weymouth, where they had most of the newest arcade games, including a lot of lesser known ones like this and my all time fave, Food Fight.

  • @apexone5502
    @apexone5502 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow! I had just commented recently on your “Yie Ar Kung Fu” video regarding how I had completely forgotten about that game and now I see this game which is another forgotten game. This channel is really bringing back tucked away memories for me. I’m glad that I’ve subscribed. Thanks for this.

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Mintcar923
      @Mintcar923 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @JeremyLeePotocki
    @JeremyLeePotocki ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The saddest thing is when you compare the SG-1000, MSX (first ver.), and the Colecovision for the most part they have the same inside (MSX just has more RAM). However whoever programed the Colecovision version knew what the hell they were doing which should have made the other programers at SEGA feel ashamed of themselves for the bad SG-1000 & MSX versions (even the TI99 for it used the same GPU too.)

  • @kbramlett6877
    @kbramlett6877 ปีที่แล้ว

    Patman,
    I remember asking you about this game a long time ago. Now, I get to thank you for covering it. I used to have this for my Intellivision II and played it all the time I even recall a glitch on the first stage that allows you to climb up the wall from the lower level right to the top. Thanks again.

  • @andyauthor2007
    @andyauthor2007 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had the Coleco Vision version of this back in the day, but I still put a lot of quarters into this in the arcade (never got to see the ending though).

  • @johndd9140
    @johndd9140 ปีที่แล้ว

    Only played this in MAME, so it was a very interesting history lesson, and seeing the other versions with your comments. Great stuff 👍

  • @steelcurtain187
    @steelcurtain187 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was an interesting one as I never have seen this one in the wild or actually played a console port. Good work friend

  • @mikeferr107
    @mikeferr107 ปีที่แล้ว

    OMG! You finally did this one. Thank you! I'm about to watch this for the first time right now.

  • @bransonbenson9520
    @bransonbenson9520 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yesss!! Another one for the relcord books! Consistently quality is much appreciated💯 That is a lot of money for back then to sue for!

  • @BlackArroToons
    @BlackArroToons ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That funny TV commercial at 10:58 used a cartoon look of the game instead of the actual home version graphics. Congo Bongo is very challenging, but I completed one round of all the levels of the arcade version. Thanks for showing the various versions PatmanQC!

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you my friend

    • @BlackArroToons
      @BlackArroToons ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @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!

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @socialistprofessor3206
    @socialistprofessor3206 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love your videos, Patman! I would be very interested in watching something about devices for or innovations in gaming accessibility should you ever decide to delve into the topic.

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @JohnRiggs
    @JohnRiggs ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for this! I love Congo Bongo

  • @spineknife2386
    @spineknife2386 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I used to love this on 2600 when I was a kid

  • @jasonz7788
    @jasonz7788 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Pacmanqc great work Sir

  • @alexjames2328
    @alexjames2328 ปีที่แล้ว

    Playing this on the Vic20 was my first experience with this game and I thought it was cool but hard. I didn't even know it was an arcade game at the time. I was blown away when I finally came across a congo bongo cabinet.

  • @MySamurai77
    @MySamurai77 ปีที่แล้ว

    Seriously nice looking visuals for a 1983 arcade game. Possibly one of the best looking raster based video games ever released by that point. Still holds up today.

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree, similar to zaxxon it still holds up

    • @MySamurai77
      @MySamurai77 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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!

  • @ericspero996
    @ericspero996 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video! The history of the game was definitely interesting. A really fun game, a bit difficult but not impossible so it was not hard to keep dropping quarters.

  • @curiousottman
    @curiousottman ปีที่แล้ว

    What a walk down memory lane! I was 12 when this game came out in the arcade and I owned both versions for my c64. I think I’ll fire them up tonight with my young son. Thanks for this video!

  • @mcorleonep
    @mcorleonep วันที่ผ่านมา

    Loved this game! I only played the arcade version but none of the home conversions. I always thought it was better than Donkey Kong.

  • @foxfireinferno197
    @foxfireinferno197 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I seriously wonder what Einstein thought the Intellivision controller was a good idea. I used to take one of those suction-cup darts you fired out of toy guns and stick it to the disk to create a makeshift joystick.

    • @Tony_Cardoza
      @Tony_Cardoza ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @anthonysalvaro2979
      @anthonysalvaro2979 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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

    • @jwprimetime9795
      @jwprimetime9795 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

    • @jwprimetime9795
      @jwprimetime9795 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @Tony_Cardoza
      @Tony_Cardoza ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @tsunamirider9895
    @tsunamirider9895 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video. I loved the game back in the day and played the cart version on the C64 a ton. I thought even that version was great. Was completely blown away when the C64 disk version came out and played that. I thought the graphics were amazing at the time.

  • @ChantingInTheDark
    @ChantingInTheDark ปีที่แล้ว

    This looks great! Never saw it in the arcades, another MAME download for the list!

  • @radwolf76
    @radwolf76 ปีที่แล้ว

    During the Summer of 1986, there was a cabinet of this in the little arcade in the Hilton Hotel at Walt Disney World.

  • @kenwheeler3637
    @kenwheeler3637 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your friend was lucky to have that Congo Bongo cart for the Intv. It's quite rare. They're even more lucky if they still have it.
    I remember when I first came across CB with surprising clarity; it was at the County Fair in the third tent arcade, the one on the midway. I thought it looked amazing. A platformer in "3D". Unfortunately it was also quite difficult hence it only got a couple of quarters out of me.

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @FatNorthernBigot
    @FatNorthernBigot ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just think the "arsonist monkey/alcoholic explorer" genre has been done to death.

  • @dranimations7902
    @dranimations7902 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video! - I quite like this game

  • @roberthunter479
    @roberthunter479 ปีที่แล้ว

    Completely forgot about this game. Played it at a friend's on his TI/99. I was really bad at this game but I loved to watch people play it in the arcade.

  • @mccallosone4903
    @mccallosone4903 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks for including the TI version. its the system i had, and we loved it. its ports were usually not good (except for star trek), but its home brew titles like tunnels of doom, A-Maze-ing, and hunt the wumpus, and clones like munch-man, parsec, and ti invaders were fantastic. have you ever done a video on the system? i would love it!

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @loki.odinson
    @loki.odinson ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a request. Would you consider doing a "History of Buck Rogers"? I loved all of the games. Only recently have I played the arcade version using Mame, but I grew up playing the Coleco Adam version, the Colecovision version and the Atari 2600 version. I liked the Coleco Adam version the best because it had extra levels that the Colecovision version didn't have and the last level even had music which was haunting and a little cool, especially for 9 year old me. They had the Coleco Adam version at the daycare center I went to when I was a kid and we used to write down our scores and keep a manual Hall of Fame so we would know who had the highest score and how many times people had flipped the game and gotten it to restart.

  • @extreme_wrestling3476
    @extreme_wrestling3476 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was at Funspot the other day and I played Congo Bongo for the first time. I thought it was a decent game. I also played Crazy Kong, which is a Donkey Kong clone with a corrupted color pallet and strange sound effects.

    • @DiscoScottie
      @DiscoScottie ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @kbramlett6877
      @kbramlett6877 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @waylonoconner9121
    @waylonoconner9121 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always loved this game. When I was a kid our local Pizza shop had a tabletop version of this one

  • @Lauren_Tyler
    @Lauren_Tyler ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Sega version for Commodore 64 had the explorer look more like the one from Jungle Hunt!

  • @Dorelaxen
    @Dorelaxen ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey guys, let's get Henny Youngman to do the commercial for our game. All the kids LOVE him! Right? Guys? Right?

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Djclyve
    @Djclyve ปีที่แล้ว

    I so rarely would ever see Congo Bongo at the arcade, but played the hell out of the home versions. I’m most familiar with the Commodore version. I always laughed at the sight of Congo suffering, dying sitting in front of the campfire; I wondered why sit so close to it if the heat is so unbearable! Now I see the arcade version, I know he was supposed to be asleep.

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @Djclyve
      @Djclyve ปีที่แล้ว

      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!

  • @DrJ3RK8
    @DrJ3RK8 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of my old favorites!! Nice!!

  • @thehumbleone1983
    @thehumbleone1983 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Congo Bongo is one of my favourite games

  • @Tigerlord4835
    @Tigerlord4835 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Congo Bongo also went by the name Tip Top overseas.

  • @sandmanxo
    @sandmanxo ปีที่แล้ว

    I also had the 2600 version of this game in the early 80s, and had no idea it was an arcade conversion until 15+ years later. It was a decent game for the 2600 but was pretty easy and got boring pretty quickly, but still one of the better games I had for the system. After seeing the latter C64 version though I wish I had that version as it looks way better than the 2600 version. I always thought the 'rock slide' effect looked like a stack of dimes crashing to the ground on the 2600.
    I did actually own a Zaxxon arcade about 10 years ago and immediately recognized the arcade cabinet but I've still never seen a Congo Bongo arcade in the wild. I've been around a lot of arcades so it makes me wonder how many cabs were made, even more so since it was during the crash era.

  • @concept-seven
    @concept-seven ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video! Please do Bomb Jack!

  • @AngryCalvin
    @AngryCalvin ปีที่แล้ว

    This arcade game has always interested me since I played many times as a child. I was already an obsessed Donkey Kong fan. Now we got something similar with Zaxxon graphics. I believe the best looking port was the 2nd version on the C64. I Had the TI994a version which looks very identical to the Colecovision port. This game was so impressive visually none of the ports came close to looking like the arcade.
    It hasn't aged as well as Donkey Kong and many others. Much due to the difficult controls. But I still enjoy playing it.

  • @gstein86
    @gstein86 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video, thank you as always! I will have to pass on Congo Bongo since the sound effects are queefy, but apparently not beefy.

  • @IndustryPets
    @IndustryPets ปีที่แล้ว

    You rock Patman !

  • @chuckmckendry194
    @chuckmckendry194 ปีที่แล้ว

    I too had the Atari 2600 version of Congo Bongo, I'd sometimes play it for hours.

  • @IDPhotoMan
    @IDPhotoMan ปีที่แล้ว

    We we got our Commodore 64 Christmas of 1983, it came with a Donkey Kong cartridge. I played hundreds of hours of that game lol. I still have that cartridge and played it the other day.

  • @mroggie8334
    @mroggie8334 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I spent many years hanging out in video arcades... I do not remember ever seeing this game.

  • @BURRITO44
    @BURRITO44 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video

  • @realmchat6665
    @realmchat6665 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this game, played it at Land of Oz in Duck Creek Plaza, still fire it up on occasion.

  • @jackeldogo3952
    @jackeldogo3952 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've always been disappointed that the ColecoVision version was missing one of the levels. I really like this game at the arcade. It was pretty hard until I figured out how do the isometric movements related to its place on the screen.

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @sweetsfiend209
    @sweetsfiend209 ปีที่แล้ว

    I only had 2 or 3 cartridge games for the C64, and this was one of them. I was a sucker for any game with an isometric point of view, even though that sometimes made gameplay difficult. But I was pretty disappointed with how the home version compared to the arcade version; the arcade graphics were so good for their time!

  • @PLAYER42_ready
    @PLAYER42_ready ปีที่แล้ว

    Gotta love how Congo looks at 20:38 just look at that gorgeous pose

  • @dotcomDan
    @dotcomDan ปีที่แล้ว

    downUnder on the SG-1000 this was the oft-bundled title which is why we chose the TI 99 4/A. Whilst not as playable as say Moon Patrol, Fathom or Kippy's Nightmare this game DID have its place at the time until later on when Slymoids came along. Alpiner really didnt get played much after that day.

  • @tron3entertainment
    @tron3entertainment ปีที่แล้ว

    Cutting edge back in the day.

  • @02DooD
    @02DooD ปีที่แล้ว

    Always wanted to try this game. Isometric perspective looked weird, but it did look fun.

  • @ericbarlow6772
    @ericbarlow6772 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had the Texas Instruments version of the game when I was a child. Yes, I’m old but I did enjoy the game at the time.

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @ericbarlow6772
      @ericbarlow6772 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

  • @TheBatwave
    @TheBatwave ปีที่แล้ว

    This is great! I love Congo Bongo!

  • @mark6302
    @mark6302 ปีที่แล้ว

    those graphics in 1983 look totally bananas

  • @TV-Tony
    @TV-Tony ปีที่แล้ว

    Yep, I remember having that cartridge version for Commodore 64.

  • @panelvixen
    @panelvixen ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In Captain N The Game Master Donkey Kong live in Kongoland. I'm sure that's just based on his name name like Megaland or Mount Icarus.

  • @sterling7
    @sterling7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had the C64 cartridge version. As I recall, there was a weird bug... The game stayed at a more-or-less constant (relatively slow) speed throughout the game, until you died for the first time. Then, if you had played through the two stages multiple times, it could suddenly increase markedly, sometimes all but to the point of unplayability.

  • @XX-sp3tt
    @XX-sp3tt ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Tell me about Amidar.

  • @Tigerlord4835
    @Tigerlord4835 ปีที่แล้ว

    I almost forgot, but Sega did released Zaxxon, Super Zaxxon, and Congo Bongo on the Wii U.

  • @RyanRead
    @RyanRead ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember this game well. Was a bit of a challenge for me. Never did win.

  • @nemopouncey3827
    @nemopouncey3827 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    so pretty much this is donkey kong
    done from a marble madness view.
    and this came before that game
    existed.

  • @loki.odinson
    @loki.odinson ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Happy Little Games. :-)

  • @JasonMarshMusic
    @JasonMarshMusic ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this. In the vic 20 version, you look like a charred corpse. Although, if someone coded up a game today about a charred corpse pursuing a gorilla, I'd be curious.

  • @anthonychobotdoespopcultur7762
    @anthonychobotdoespopcultur7762 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:00 awesome intro

  • @jamesmoss3424
    @jamesmoss3424 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hard about Congo Bongo for a long time and I will play the arcade version first. 😀👍🎮

  • @ConsoleCleric
    @ConsoleCleric ปีที่แล้ว

    I completely missed this one- never knew it existed!
    I did read about the lawsuit against Nintendo for the Donkey Kong code, which was basically pirated by Nintendo.
    Then there was the lawsuit from Universal's King Kong against Nintendo's Donkey Kong (in which Nintendo won).
    Donkey Kong has a rather turbulent history, come to think of it.

  • @Bucky749
    @Bucky749 ปีที่แล้ว

    Me : do the monkey every body !( monkees theme plays in the back round ).

  • @Mintcar923
    @Mintcar923 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As far as ambition & graphics it was impressive but I found it a difficult play due to needing to have such precise depth perception due to the isometric view.. It does make a great unlock able tho on that Genesis collection we all have..

  • @RoninCatholic
    @RoninCatholic ปีที่แล้ว

    And in the animated adaptation of Donkey Kong Country, D. K. Isle was named Congo Bongo Island...

  • @xethnyrrow
    @xethnyrrow ปีที่แล้ว

    Get video Pat, sounds are lined up! This was a game my ex told me about and I always thought it was a DK knock off back then as well.

  • @VictorHernandez-nj2lo
    @VictorHernandez-nj2lo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    To this day I am not good atisometric games,so i would most likely play the sg-1000 version

  • @Shinobi33
    @Shinobi33 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pretty good graphics for '83

  • @Mrshoujo
    @Mrshoujo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So ray wah pon kah rah hah jii mah tah
    "That began from 'Pong.' "

  • @backpackingtony1779
    @backpackingtony1779 ปีที่แล้ว

    How about doing a history of Dunegons and Dragons games?

  • @billcook4768
    @billcook4768 ปีที่แล้ว

    The SG-1000 has extremely similar hardware to the ColecoVision. But you’d never believe it based on their respective Congo Bongo ports.

  • @hdufort
    @hdufort ปีที่แล้ว

    There was a ripoff game named Ghana Bwana on the Tandy Color Computer, but it used a 4 colors graphics mode that was not super good.

  • @richardlaceyfield9
    @richardlaceyfield9 ปีที่แล้ว

    I see Crystal Castles as a game inspiration also along with Frogger .

    • @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
      @PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries  ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @PlasticCogLiquid
    @PlasticCogLiquid ปีที่แล้ว

    I wrote some tunes for a Congo Bongo remake that never came out

  • @dennissmith5807
    @dennissmith5807 ปีที่แล้ว

    Forgot about that game. I don't think I ever got very far on it.

  • @EugenioAngueira
    @EugenioAngueira ปีที่แล้ว

    I was never any good playing this game at the arcade. I did get the 2600 version which is both an eyesore and impressive. None of the home versions were able to recreate the entire game, unfortunately.

  • @stillaboveground2470
    @stillaboveground2470 ปีที่แล้ว

    I spent a lot of quarters on Congo Bongo.

  • @VictorHernandez-nj2lo
    @VictorHernandez-nj2lo ปีที่แล้ว

    Funny u should mention Nintendo. In the 90s Donkey Kong Country cgi cartoon, the island he lives on is Kongo Bongo Island. I hav no idea if this was intentional

  • @mightyfilm
    @mightyfilm ปีที่แล้ว

    I had a hand me down Atari 2600, and this was one of the games I inherited. I could never master the thing. Only a couple times did I even get to the second screen, and I never figured out how you're supposed to play that level.

  • @chrisdryer
    @chrisdryer ปีที่แล้ว

    I think I played the Atari 5200 version as a kid. Geez... or maybe it was the Commodore 64 one... or maybe it was the Coleco version... hmmm it could be the MSX version for all I know... I was probably 5 years old at the time and didn't know anything. Hmmm...