Atari Coin Connection

Volume 6 Number 4
June 1982
ATARI®
Kangaroo· from ATARI® Leaps Into the
Video Game field
he latest coin-op game to
j ump off the ATARI line is
Kangaroo, a colorful video
challenge that will keep players
hopping as they try to help Mother
Kangaroo rescue her Baby from a
gang of nasty monkeys.
Baby Kangaroo is being held captive in
a cage at the top of the playfield by a
horde of mean monkeys. Mother is at the
bottom of the playfield, separated from
her Baby by a series of ladders and the
monkeys, who fling apples and apple
cores at her as she tries to recover her
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This full color 24" x 36" poster is one of
the many promotional items ATARI is offer•
ing to accompany the release of their new
game, Kangaroo. Also available are t-shirts,
bumper stickers, and radio scripts. For an
order form listing all the promotional items
available, along with a special packet full
of ideas about how to get the Kangaroo
word out to players, contact ATARI Coin
Games Division, Marketing Services, 790
Sycamore Drive, P.O. Box 906, Milpitas, CA
95035.
Baby. Mother isn 't completely . ._
• ,,t_; There are four rounds of play per skill
helpless against the monkeys, ~ level. During the first round, the player
however. She can jump over the apples
must help Mother climb ladders between
or duck under them as they come flying
four different platforms. Baby is on the
top platform in the cage, and there are
her way. And she can punch out the
monkeys or apples, too.
lots of apple-armed monkeys between
him and Mother. In the second round,
Along the way to collecting Baby,
Mother can also collect different kinds of
Mother must jump up a series of log
fruit which are worth extra points. When
steps to rescue Baby. The monkeys
Mother and Baby are finally reunited, the
form a column, one on top of another, in
player hears the joyous strains of "Oh,
Round Three, with the Baby in its cage
Susannah! " and the word "Mom" flashes
balanced on the top of the column.
above the heads of the happy pair.
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