Jungle Hunt

Jungle Hunt
North American arcade flyer
DevelopersTaito (arcade)
Atari, Inc. (ports)
PublishersTaito (arcade)
Atari, Inc. (ports)
Atarisoft (ports)
PlatformsArcade, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM PC, VIC-20, TI-99/4A
ReleaseJungle King
  • JP: June 23, 1982
  • NA: 1982
  • EU: 1982
Jungle Hunt
  • JP: July 1982
  • NA: August 1982
Pirate Pete
  • NA: November 1982
GenresAction, platformer
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemTaito SJ System

Jungle Hunt is a 1982 platform video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. It was originally distributed in 1982 as Jungle King, then quickly modified and re-released as Jungle Hunt following a copyright dispute over the player character's likeness to Tarzan. Taito also distributed a less successful rebranding of the game as Pirate Pete in 1982. Jungle King, along with Moon Patrol released a month earlier, is one of the first video games with parallax scrolling.

The player controls an unnamed character moving through right-to-left scrolling scenes to rescue a woman from cannibals by swinging from vine to vine, swimming through a crocodile-infested river, avoiding rolling boulders, and jumping over her captors.

Home versions of Jungle Hunt were published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and Atari 8-bit computers starring a British explorer named Sir Dudley. Ports under the Atarisoft label were released for Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, VIC-20, and IBM PC compatibles.