Congo's Caper

Congo's Caper
Congo's Caper
	North American cover art
Developer(s)	Data East
Publisher(s)	Data East
Composer(s)	Emi Shimizu; Seiji Momoi; Seiji Yamanaka
Platform(s)	Super NES
Release	JP: December 18, 1992; NA: May 1993; EU: 1993;
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player

Congo's Caper^[a] is a side-scrolling platform action video game developed and published for the Super NES by Data East. The game was released in Japan in 1992. A North American version was released in May 1993.^[2]

Gameplay[]

The plot of Congo's Caper involves a half-human, half-monkey boy named Congo, who sets out on a quest to rescue his girlfriend after she is abducted by a demon. The player controls Congo. Congo's Caper is played across 35 levels that take place in multiple worlds, including a jungle, a mountain range, a pirate ship, a volcano, and a ghost town. The bosses include the demon, a T-Rex, a ninja, a pirate, a mad scientist, and a vampire. If Congo is hit by an enemy, he reverts to his monkey form. If Congo is hit again, the player loses a life.^[3]

Reception[]

Nintendo Power praised the game's graphics, controls, password feature, and variety of levels, but wrote: "The game doesn't really do anything that Super Mario World and countless other games have done just as well".^[2] AllGame rated Congo's Caper three and a half stars out of five.^[3]

Notes[]

^ Known in Japan as Caveman Combat 2: The Adventures of Rookie (Japanese: 戦え原始人2 ルーキーの冒険, Hepburn: Tatakae Genshijin 2: Rūkī no Bōken)^[1]
^ In GameFan's review, four critics scored Congo's Caper differently: 86%, 85%, 81%, and 82%.^[4]

References[]

^ 戦え原始人 being the original Japanese subtitle for Joe & Mac.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Now Playing". Nintendo Power. Nintendo. April 1993. pp. 102–103. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Marriott, Scott Alan. "Congo's Caper - Overview". AllGame. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
^ Skid; Brody; Slick, Tom; The Enquirer (January 1993). "Viewpoint". GameFan. Vol. 1 no. 3. pp. 10–11. Retrieved July 16, 2021.

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[2] Known in Japan as Caveman Combat 2: The Adventures of Rookie (Japanese: 戦え原始人2 ルーキーの冒険, Hepburn: Tatakae Genshijin 2: Rūkī no Bōken)^[1]

[6] In GameFan's review, four critics scored Congo's Caper differently: 86%, 85%, 81%, and 82%.^[4]

[1] 戦え原始人 being the original Japanese subtitle for Joe & Mac.

[Power-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Now Playing". Nintendo Power. Nintendo. April 1993. pp. 102–103. Retrieved June 16, 2016.

[AG-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Marriott, Scott Alan. "Congo's Caper - Overview". AllGame. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved June 16, 2016.

[5] Skid; Brody; Slick, Tom; The Enquirer (January 1993). "Viewpoint". GameFan. Vol. 1 no. 3. pp. 10–11. Retrieved July 16, 2021.

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