My Pico-8 version of the 1981 Konami arcade game.

How to Play

Most "enemies" (the Amidar) follow a set movement pattern. The blue enemies are tracers and circuit the outside. On later levels, after a set number of circuits, they start to chase you!

Bonus life at 20,000 and 80,000 points.

Odd Numbered Levels

You are the gorilla. Collect all the "coconuts" whilst avoiding the enemies.

Filling all 4 corners will scare the enemies and you can stun them by running into them.

Even Numbered Levels

You are the paint roller. Once you've filled the first rectangle, you must pick up paint from the edges and fill adjacent rectangles. If you wander too far into a non-adjacent rectangle, the unfilled paint path is cleared.

Avoid the pigs.

Filling all 4 corners will scare the enemies and you can stun them by running into them.

Bonus Level 1

Pick the correct path to guide the pig to the bunch of bananas.

Heracleum has an excellent trainer for this:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=112596

Bonus Level 2

Not in the original, just something I made up.

You are the gorilla and must avoid the bubbles fired by the hippos by hiding behind barriers. The row of hippos about to fire will briefly flash, giving you time to hide.

This is based on the Mario Party mini-game, "Skewer Scurry". You can see how it is played, here:


Controls

[X] - Jump (make the enemies jump. 3 jumps per round)

Thanks To

  • @obvex for the fantastic logo

Version History

0.80 - 19-Dec-2023 - Released
0.81 - 23-Dec-2023 - Fixed "s.jumpdy" crash (hopefully)
0.82 - 23-Dec-2023 - Gorilla could turn into roller on hippo level
0.83 - 17-Jan-2023 - Fixed bonus for stunning enemies not being awarded!

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, HTML5
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Authorpahammond
Made withPICO-8

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Thanks you sooo much  !!!! my rgb30 would be nothing without these mind blowing arcade ports !!!!!

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Awesome remake! I'm a great fan of the original, played a lot on Mame as well recently. No surprise my first ever sample cart for Pico-8 (first steps learning pico's Lua) is a "trainer" of the pig bonus stage with increasing difficulty (Amidus on lexaloffle).

About the bonus stage I wasn't definitely prepared for the odd bonus Hyppo stage (not in the original) is it your own addition or was it in some other remake/ports?

Your Amidar trainer really put me on to doing this remake. I'll link it in my game description if that's okay? Yeah, the hippo thing was my own addition, based on a Mario Party mini-game. I wrote this jingle that I really wanted to use but also wanted to include versions of the original jingles too. Good enough reason!

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High score today: 54760

reached 6th level, it's fundamentally impossible to beat lol

A detail I didn't notice in the first plays is when at higher stages the 'perimeter guy' goes after you in your version he is literally chasing you; in the original it was a little less of a nightmare and more controllable because he just "followed your steps".

Oh and I still suck at the hyppo stage 😅

Apparently, in the original, the "perimeter guy" does eventually chase the player. After X number of circuits I think. Couldn't find any good videos that showed this, so I just made up the number of circuits he does before he chases you. I'm guessing I made him a little too aggressive?

As for the hippo stage, I'm not great at it either but my 14y/o seems to be able to nail it every time!

Excellent port as always!

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Your games are too good. You must be STOPPED! ;)

nice

gracias,uno de mis juegos favoritos