Kangaroo

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Kangaroo
Type Arcade
Manufacturer Sun Electronics
Year 1982
Genre Platform / Run Jump

Kangaroo is a 1982 arcade game made by Sun Electronics.

About

Kangaroo is a 1982 platform video game developed and published by Sun Electronics for arcades. It was released in Japan in May 1982 and in North America by Atari, Inc. in June 1982. It is one of the first arcade games similar in style to Donkey Kong without being a direct clone. The player takes the role of a boxing glove-wearing mother kangaroo who is trying to rescue her joey from fruit-throwing monkeys. Jumping is integral to the game, but there is no jump button; instead, the player pushes up on the joystick—or up and diagonally—to leap. The arcade version of Kangaroo has visible glitches in the graphics, such as sprites briefly flickering.

Text from the Wikipedia article "Kangaroo (video game)", available under CC BY-SA.

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Version Year Manufacturer MAME set
Kangaroo 1982 Sun Electronics kangaroo
Kangaroo (Atari) 1982 Sun Electronics (Atari license) kangarooa
Kangaroo (bootleg) 1982 bootleg kangaroob
Kangaroo (Löwen-Automaten) 1982 Sun Electronics (Löwen-Automaten license) kangarool