The box-office success, King Kong, now looks likely to become a success in a box - or at least an arcade cabinet - in the game Donkey Kong.

Kong has captured an electronic starled and is holding her hostage at the top of the screen. He hurls down barrels at the rather unheroic rescue figure as he rushes up a series of tilting levels. The rescuer must leap over the oncoming barrels and so make his way to Kong's hideout. A hammer with which to knock the barrels clear of the level, can be reached by a well-timed leap skywards.

Once at the top, Kong realising he is beaten, picks up our heroine and carts her off to a new screen. here the rescuer must leap between passing lifts to attain the giant chimp's hideout.

On achieving this, the screen changes again to a conveyor belt affair and so the chase continues, with Kong hurling obstacles in the path of our plucky hero until the girl is finally saved... then it all starts again only with more obstacles.

Can Jumpman save the wretched heroine? Find out down your local arcade.

Статья была опубликована в журнале "Computer and video games"
december 1981
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