Kangaroo [Model CX2689]

Kangaroo © 1983 Atari, Incorporated.

The object of the game is to score as many points as you can while helping Mother Kangaroo rescue her precious baby. Use your joystick controller to guide Mother Kangaroo. You star the game with three lives.

During this rescue mission, Mother Kangaroo encounters many obstacles. Push your joystick up to help her climb ladders, hop over logs, and jump over apples; pull the joystick down to help her duck under apples. Help her pick bonus fruit, and ring the bell at the top of the screen by making her hop up to touch the fruit and bell. Push the joystick diagonally right and left to help Mother Kangaroo take Super Leaps across broken logs. Press the red fire button to make Mother Kangaroo throw punches at monkeys and apples.

KANGAROO has two skill levels: novice and advance for one or two players. Game play will progress by level with both skill levels. Each level has three screens. A screen is completed when Mother Kangaroo reaches her baby. When all three screens are completed, the screen flashes, and you begin a more difficult round of the same three screens.

Screen 1 - This is the easiest screen. To capture her baby, Mother Kangaroo must hop along tree branches and climb up ladders while avoiding monkeys and apples.

Screen 2 - This is the most difficult screen because Mother Kangaroo must take Super Leaps across several broken logs to reach her baby.

Screen 3 - The third screen is similar to both screen one and screen two. Mother Kangaroo encounters more logs and branches and ladders for an increased challenge during her rescue mission.

To score points, Mother Kangaroo picks fruit, punches monkeys and apples, and rescues Baby Kangaroo.

Mother Kangaroo earns extra points for picking even more fruit. She can ring the bell (up to three times in one screen) to replenish the fruit. Then she can climb up and down the screen to pick all the fruit.