Review by dandyboy on 17 Sep 2012 (Rating: 3)
Bongo by M.Fox is a cute platformer with the main inconvenients of its poor design , little variety , and rough movements .
If it wasn´t for that , Bongo could have been a killer ,,, now it´s only a curious game with a big mouse as main character .
What we have here is a platform game with ladders and slides that I feel would fit marvellously in a Colecovision. It's the sort of game I'd expect to play on a Colecovision - which is not a bad feeling.
You're a big mouse at the cheese factory, but here you have to run around picking up diamonds, chased by some sort of alligator, a while you're there, you can even catch falling letters falling from the top of the screen to the bottom - by which you can form the name/word "Bongo" - and I don't what's the consequence of that. More points, I suppose. Or a new life, optimistically, inside Swiss cheese, wife and children. I'm digressing. Your mouse and the alligator are both two-legged. After three/four diamonds taken the level ends, there's a pause in which you can rest with your blonde girl [a zoophile?], and then start the new screen, with a different placing of platforms, slides and ladders - I'm not sure if it's harder or not - or if later the alligator finds some other friends to help him in chasing you or what.
Also, you can try to jump on a nearby platform, so there's a certain variety in the way you can escape and bypass your enemies.
The colour clash is EGREGIOUS in this one, I mean, there's really a lot of it, and as far as colour clash clashes, it clashes egregiously well, for example, because of the colour of the platforms, your feet are constantly red - and when the characters use the ladders... wow!
That said, playability is very good, sound is tolerable - and there must be some speeches too, because the game supports the Currah Microspeech, or how it's called. But I didn't try it, so I don't know if they're any good.
I think that a 3/5 would do, all considered.
Note: Bongo wasn't reviewed by any magazine.
Happy birthday, Dean of the Games! [a.k.a. Games Dean]
Wow, almost 1000 reviews old!
