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Game entry

Congo Bongo

1983 · Platformer, Arcade · DOS, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, Arcade, Apple II, Intellivision, ColecoVision, MSX, Texas Instruments TI-99 · Texas Instruments Incorporated

Congo Bongo is listed in the GameForever catalogue but not in the duel pool: this game is never offered for a vote, its 1,500 points are never at stake and it does not appear in the world ranking. Its entry and its debate stay open.

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ELO score

1,500

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0

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About Congo Bongo

Congo Bongo is an isometric platform arcade game released by Sega in 1983. The game has come to be seen as Sega's answer to the highly successful Donkey Kong game that was released two years prior. The player takes the role of a red-nosed safari hunter who tries to catch an ape named "Bongo". The hunter seeks Bongo to exact revenge for an apparent practical joke in which Bongo set fire to the hunter's tent, giving him a literal "hotfoot". The game was named by Peter W. Gorrie who was the CFO of Sega at that time.

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