Review scoopings 5/5 · Mar 3, 2022
Best Arcade Platformer I've Played Yet!
Look: 8/10 Great sprites and decent level look.
Sound: 8/10 I liked making the Bell play its song, and in general the sounds were above-average for this era.
Play: 9/10 Hard, but oddly more rewarding than most the era's platformers. I hadn't really felt Donkey Kong or Popeye, but this one clicked with me. I liked the punch feature, as …
Look: 8/10 Great sprites and decent level look.
Sound: 8/10 I liked making the Bell play its song, and in general the sounds were above-average for this era.
Play: 9/10 Hard, but oddly more rewarding than most the era's platformers. I hadn't really felt Donkey Kong or Popeye, but this one clicked with me. I liked the punch feature, as well as the duck. I also felt somewhat good at it (relative to me, ha). Still very rudimentary with how jumping up a series of platforms works and with the fall feature, reminding me of what was it Miner Pete or something? It was nice to feel good at something, sure I had to keep retrying but a) the game was fun and cutesy enough to warrant doing so and b) I kept getting a little bit further, with some setbacks, rather than that feeling of perpetual loss. Pro-tip: use the duck feature. And wow, look at me, I got right through Stage 3 on only my 2nd try getting to it. I didn't go for the mass amount of apples, tho, which I will definitely try for in a future replay--but for now, I recommend just pummeling the crap out of the stack of monkeys while being cognizant of apples flying at you. Luckily you have plenty of time to pummel a couple more times then jump or duck depending on where the apple is. I love that you can punch the apple coming at you, too, I always love when you can destroy enemy bullets.
Feel: 9/10 It was the worst when you got whacked at the very top, right before saving your little joey. In one of my playthroughs, somehow I timed the punch on the giant gorilla enemy that sometimes appears that it didn't go to the other screen, so I was able to just continuously pummel him getting an insane amount of points, but before I could screenshot it, the guy at the top got me by dropping an apple? on me. Anyway, I'm surprised how much I loved this. Definitely up there in my favorite arcade action games, and definitely my favorite of the arcade platformers so far.
Attachment: 9/10 Definitely on my list of arcade games to replay. And I already have an urge to replay it, indeed! This has to be the first repeating-cycle-of-screens action or platform game that I actually started replaying it at the higher difficulty, not even some of my favorite shoot em ups did I do that. Still, I only got past the first screen/stage on "Level 2" (the second cycle through the levels). Says something that I began replaying it tho! This is the early platformer imo.
Completion: Completed all levels Playtime: 45mins
