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* ExcusePlot: Your girlfriend has been kidnapped by cannibals. Save her.
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* JungleOpera: The central theme. Traverse the jungle and save your girlfriend
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* UnderTheSea: The second stage always puts you in a river where the hero attacks crocodiles while swimming and has to watch their oxygen.
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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Crocodiles are enemies in the underwater portion.
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* ImAHumanitarian: The cannibal tribe that captures your girlfriend and wants to eat her.
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%%* CollisionDamage: Crocodiles, boulders, and the cannibals.

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%%* * CollisionDamage: Crocodiles, boulders, and the cannibals.cannibals. Crash into them and you die.
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%%* TimedMission

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%%* TimedMission* TimedMission You have to reach your girlfriend before she gets cooked.
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* StewedAlive: You are trying to save your girlfriend, who is being slowly lowered into a cauldron by a cannibal tribe.
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%%* OneHitPointWonder* OneHitPointWonder: You die in one hit.

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* CapturedByCannibals: Your girlfriend, and you need to save her before she gets eaten.



* NiceHat: The protagonist wears one.
* OneHitPointWonder: You die in one hit.

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* NiceHat: The protagonist wears one.
* OneHitPointWonder: You die in one hit.
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%%* OneHitPointWonder* NiceHat: The protagonist wears one.
* OneHitPointWonder: You die in one hit.
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''Jungle Hunt'' is a SideView UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame released by Taito in 1982, and ported to many consoles and computers. It started as a ''{{Tarzan}}'' game called "Jungle King", but a lawsuit from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs led to some changes.

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''Jungle Hunt'' is a SideView UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame released by Taito in 1982, and ported to many consoles and computers. It started as a ''{{Tarzan}}'' ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'' game called "Jungle King", but a lawsuit from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs led to some changes.

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[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/junglehunt_5526.jpg]] ''Jungle Hunt'' is a SideView UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame released by Taito in 1982, and ported to many consoles and computers. It started as a ''{{Tarzan}}'' game called "Jungle King", but a lawsuit from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs led to some changes.

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[[caption-width-right:240:Screenshot from the arcade version.]]
''Jungle Hunt'' is a SideView UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame released by Taito in 1982, and ported to many consoles and computers. It started as a ''{{Tarzan}}'' game called "Jungle King", but a lawsuit from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs led to some changes.

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!!''Jungle Hunt'' provides examples of:

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!!''Jungle King/Jungle Hunt'' provides examples of:



* DistressedDamsel: Your girlfriend has been CapturedByCannibals.



* GuerrillaBoulders: The third stage of every round has these, which the jungle man must jump over or duck under.



%%* JungleJapes

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%%* JungleJapes* JungleJapes: This being the entire theme and setting of the game.



%%* OxygenMeter: In the river.

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%%* * OxygenMeter: In The second stage of each round puts the river.hero into the river, where it becomes necessary to surface now and then to replenish the meter. Strangely, the large air bubbles rising up from the bottom of the river only serve to push the player to the surface -- they do not replenish the oxygen meter.



* SaveThePrincess: Your girlfriend has been CapturedByCannibals.



%%* SmoochOfVictory

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%%* SmoochOfVictory* SmoochOfVictory: The hero gets one of these each time he successfully [[SaveThePrincess rescues his girlfriend.]]


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* VineSwing: The first stage of every round features this. At first the vines are bare and the only risk is from missing the next vine. Starting with the second round, however, some of the vines are already occupied by [[KillerGorilla lethal apes]].
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%% ZeroContextExample Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.
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I used to play the original "Jungle King" version of the game when I was a kid, so I know it did in fact exist in North America, so I thought the info was worth including.


[[quoteright:256:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/junglehunt_5526.jpg]] ''Jungle Hunt'' is a SideView UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame released by Taito in 1982, and ported to many consoles and computers. It started as a ''{{Tarzan}}'' game, but a lawsuit from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs led to some changes.

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[[quoteright:256:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/junglehunt_5526.jpg]] ''Jungle Hunt'' is a SideView UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame released by Taito in 1982, and ported to many consoles and computers. It started as a ''{{Tarzan}}'' game, game called "Jungle King", but a lawsuit from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs led to some changes.
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[[quoteright:256:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/junglehunt_5526.jpg]] ''Jungle Hunt'' is a SideView ArcadeGame released by Taito in 1982, and ported to many consoles and computers. It started as a ''{{Tarzan}}'' game, but a lawsuit from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs led to some changes.

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[[quoteright:256:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/junglehunt_5526.jpg]] ''Jungle Hunt'' is a SideView ArcadeGame UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame released by Taito in 1982, and ported to many consoles and computers. It started as a ''{{Tarzan}}'' game, but a lawsuit from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs led to some changes.

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* AttractMode
* AutoScrollingLevel: Stage two.
* BossRoom: Stage four.
* CaptainErsatz
* CollisionDamage: Crocodiles, boulders, and the cannibals.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist

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* %%* AttractMode
* %%* AutoScrollingLevel: Stage two.
* %%* BossRoom: Stage four.
* %%* CaptainErsatz
* %%* CollisionDamage: Crocodiles, boulders, and the cannibals.
* %%* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist



* {{Game Level}}s: Four.
* Instant180DegreeTurn

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* %%* {{Game Level}}s: Four.
* %%* Instant180DegreeTurn



* JungleJapes

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* %%* JungleJapes



* OneHitPointWonder
* OxygenMeter: In the river.
* PuzzleBoss: The cannibals.
* RatchetScrolling: Stages one and four.

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* %%* OneHitPointWonder
* %%* OxygenMeter: In the river.
* %%* PuzzleBoss: The cannibals.
* %%* RatchetScrolling: Stages one and four.



* ScoringPoints
* SideView
* SmoochOfVictory
* TimedMission

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* %%* ScoringPoints
* %%* SideView
* %%* SmoochOfVictory
* %%* TimedMission
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* TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames
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* CollisionDamage: Crocodiles, boulders, and the cannibals.
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* SaveThePrincess

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* SaveThePrincessSaveThePrincess: Your girlfriend has been CapturedByCannibals.

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* AutoScrollingLevel: Stage two.



* FixedScrollingLevel: Stage two.
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[[quoteright:256:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/junglehunt_5526.jpg]] ''[[strike:Jungle King]] Jungle Hunt'' is a SideView ArcadeGame released by Taito in 1982, and ported to many consoles and computers.

You play [[strike:{{Tarzan}}]] [[CaptainErsatz a guy in a safari outfit]] who has to [[SaveThePrincess save his girlfriend]] from cannibals. You journey through four [[GameLevel stages]]. In the first stage, you swing from tree to tree on [[strike:vines]] ropes. In the second stage, you swim past crocodiles, stabbing them if you want to for extra [[ScoringPoints points]]. In the third stage, you run uphill while dodging boulders. In the fourth stage, you jump over the cannibals to rescue the girl.

A lawsuit from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs prompted the changes. In Brazil, it was released with the original Tarzan graphics and sampled yell.

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[[quoteright:256:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/junglehunt_5526.jpg]] ''[[strike:Jungle King]] Jungle ''Jungle Hunt'' is a SideView ArcadeGame released by Taito in 1982, and ported to many consoles and computers.

computers. It started as a ''{{Tarzan}}'' game, but a lawsuit from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs led to some changes.

You play [[strike:{{Tarzan}}]] [[CaptainErsatz a guy in a safari outfit]] outfit (a CaptainErsatz of Tarzan) who has to [[SaveThePrincess save his girlfriend]] from cannibals. You journey through four [[GameLevel stages]]. In the first stage, you swing from tree to tree on [[strike:vines]] ropes.vines (called "ropes" after the lawsuit). In the second stage, you swim past crocodiles, stabbing them if you want to for extra [[ScoringPoints points]]. In the third stage, you run uphill while dodging boulders. In the fourth stage, you jump over the cannibals to rescue the girl.

A lawsuit from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs prompted the changes. In Brazil, it was released with the original Tarzan graphics and sampled yell.
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''[[strike:Jungle King]] Jungle Hunt'' is a SideView ArcadeGame released by Taito in 1982, and ported to many consoles and computers.

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[[quoteright:256:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/junglehunt_5526.jpg]] ''[[strike:Jungle King]] Jungle Hunt'' is a SideView ArcadeGame released by Taito in 1982, and ported to many consoles and computers.

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