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Congo Bongo (Intellivision)

Created as Sega's answer to Nintendo's highly successful Donkey Kong, Congo Bongo is one of the earliest isometric platformers. In it you take the role of hunter set on getting revenge on an ape that performed the old Hotfoot gag on him.

Hidden Text#

There are two hidden messages in the ROM. The first starts at 0x1253:

HELLO FROM SEGA
AND
BECK-TECH

The second is located at 0x3F11:

COPYRIGHT 1983 SEGA ENTERPRISES INC. BECK-TECH MIKE N

(Source: Original TCRF research)

References#


  1. Beck-Tech - GDRI :: Game Developer Research Institute↩︎
  2. AVAILABILITY UPDATE - The Video Game Update, Volume 2, Number 9, December 1983↩︎