Donkey Kong Jungle Beat

by Nintendo

Product Features

• Use the simple controls for a world of great game moves - jump around on elastic vines, ride animals, pound enemies with your fist and more
• Interact with all sorts of enemies, obstacles and challenges with the bongos -- from soaring in a homemade parachute to bouncing off the walls like a pinball
• Precise and intuitive context-sensitive controls, depending on the timing of your drumming
• On-screen nudges players in the right direction

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00077DLXY
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 7.8 x 7.5 inches ; 2.7 pounds
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,309 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Edition: with Bongos

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat uses the DK Bongo controllers (included) to create a totally unique action game experience. Put your hands together and beat the bongos to control Donkey Kong and his powerful combos!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My son LOVES this game!, June 14, 2005

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S. HAMMEL - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Donkey Kong Jungle Beat with Bongos (Video Game)

My son spotted this game and the bongos at Toys R Us and started playing. I had a hard time getting him out of the store! He cried like crazy.(he just turned 5 and usually doesn't do that)I told him we'd go back and play again someday. Well, he kept bugging me and my husband everyday to PLEASE take him up there to play it.
(We have a Super NES that was mine and we have Donkey Kong 1,2,and 3 that he constantly plays, so he is familar with it)
So, I bought a game cube 2nd hand for 45 bucks and bought the game/Bongo combo at Toys R Us. He has played it ever since we got home (4 hours now) with no sign of slowing down. I'm sure it will keep him happy for a long time.
This game actually gives your arms a workout with all of the drum beating and clapping. I also can be in the other room and know "what he is up to" as long as I hear the drums beating, LOL. I'm glad I bought this.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very fun action platformer from Nintendo., March 28, 2005

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Aaron Lamb (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Donkey Kong Jungle Beat with Bongos (Video Game)

I eagerly purchased Donkey Kong Jungle Beat with the Bongos as soon as it was released. After a few minutes of tinkering with the bongo based controls, I found myself happily adventuring through another great Donkey Kong title. As strange as playing a Donkey Kong Country style game with bongos sounds, controlling Mr. Kong is a fairly intuitive and very fun experience. With a rhythmic tap to the right bongo the character runs to the right. With a tap to the left bongo, Donkey Kong runs to the left. Hit both bongos simultaneously and he leaps into the air. Hit both bongos while in the air and Donkey Kong will quickly slam to the ground. Add a clap or a tap to the side of the bongos and a shock wave radiates from Donkey Kong, which stuns enemies, allows Donkey Kong to grab any near by bananas, or causes Donkey Kong to swing from the hands of friendly monkeys hidden in cleverly placed floating bushes.

Even if it does take you a bit longer than others to become comfortable playing a videogame with a set of bongos, the game is very forgiving for the first few levels. The level system in place uses barrels as worlds. Each barrel that you unlock holds four levels named after various fruits. A level will include two sub levels and a boss encounter. The sub levels end when you bite into an over sized fruit at the end of the level. Once you bite into the fruit, Donkey Kong enters the fruit and collects as many beats as you can quickly beat on the bongos in a period of five to ten seconds.

The boss encounters range anywhere between a boxing match with a fellow primate, to a pineapple throwing contest with a robotic elephant with a cannon for a trunk. There are 18 levels in all to unlock, and from what I noticed the levels progressively increase in difficulty throughout the game. In order to unlock every level, you will have to collect medals that can be acquired with an average or amazing score after each level. In order to receive medals, it is up to your bongo slapping hands to get the highest possible banana, or beat score for each level, so that you may unlock the bronze, silver, gold and platinum medals needed to complete the game.

A beginner will most likely achieve scores around 300 to 500 beats, which will earn a bronze or a silver medal depending on the score. In order to earn the gold and platinum medals you will have to get beat scores of 800 to 1,200 beats. So, to boost those beat scores through the roof you will have to take advantage of the very cool combo system available. Basically, the longer you keep Mr. Kong off of the ground, the higher your combo will get. Run straight ahead, jump off of a ledge, bounce off of a wall and grab onto a vine, swing off of the vine and catch a near by hovering bird and you will be up to a combo of four. The higher your combo is, the more the beats are worth. Since this game is all about collecting the highest beat score for each level, you will definitely want to learn how to rack up those beefy combos of ten or higher. The higher the combo, the better the score. In my opinion, this aspect of Donkey Kong Jungle beat is the reason I love this game. It is incredibly rewarding to play through each level, finding ways to earn those high combos.

Graphically, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is definitely a beautiful game. Each level is bright and colorful, which fits into the whole jungle theme that Nintendo was going for here. The game runs at a solid 60 frames per second which keeps everything running nice and smooth. All of the characters are very detailed and animated realistically. As for the audio, each level has a unique tune playing in the background that you may not notice due to the non-stop bongo slapping. The sound affects are also spot on. This game does not compare to the brilliant sound tracks and effects of Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2, but it certainly is good enough.

My only complaint with this game is the fact that it takes roughly seven to ten hours to complete the first time through, quite possibly less than this for seasoned gamers. Once you get the bronze through platinum medals for each of the eighteen levels, the game is over. There is no hidden content to be found, and there are no mini games or anything of that nature available after the game is completed. However, the developers have hidden enough combo possibilities in each level to keep high score enthusiasts busy for quite a while. This game is always fun to pick up and play, especially with friends and family.

Beginners enjoy Donkey Kong Jungle Beat because it is easy to pick up the bongos and jump right into the action. Advanced players will find interest in this game due to the rewarding combo system that can easily bring your beat scores well beyond the 1,200 mark. I personally enjoy this game because at a basic level, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is intuitive and fun to play. It is an off the wall, odd little game that only Nintendo could come up with, and I must honestly say that it does the trick. I have already gotten the bronze through platinum medals on each of the 18 levels and I do believe that I will continue to play this game, simply because it is so much fun. I would recommend picking Donkey Kong Jungle Beat up for yourself or anyone who enjoys video games in general. It is a blast to play!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun as all get out, September 19, 2005

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Kurt Koller "Minimalist360 744411FD-B6B0-11D2... (South Orange, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Donkey Kong Jungle Beat with Bongos (Video Game)

Who'd have thought that bongos (and clapping) would be a good interface for a platformer? Not me. I played this in a store and was hooked pretty quickly.

The interface is great - multiple taps on the left bongo to go left, right to go right, and both at once to jump, along with a few other combos. You clap which makes DK clap, which sends out sound waves in a certain radius that can affect other things.

So simple, yet so good. The multipliers with the fruits are a great device -- run over a banana and it counts as one, run over 5 and they count as 5, but jump into the perfect position to clap and collect them all at once and you can score 20.

So I'm clapping and banging on the drums and it's a total blast, and I realize I'm actually working up a sweat playing the game. And like most Nintendo first-party games, the gameplay is near perfectly solid, the gameplay is set up in that toally addictive Nintendo style where you don't want to stop.

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