By now, it must be obvious that my personal favorite time in PC gaming history, my “golden era”, is around the 486 to Pentium 1 days. For its time, it was the best era in PC gaming with the advent of CD ROM gaming, my very early 3D graphics cards (if any at all) and my Sound Blaster 16. I believe the best PC games came from that time. However , I will once again go much further back in my PC time machine and yet again visit my childhood games on the TI994A. Games of this era are, obviously, pretty simplistic. But they also hold great memories and are the foundation of all PC games that came afterwards. Jungle Hunt was a pretty cool action/platform game for its time, and I played it a lot. Some levels have you jumping from vine to vine to reach safety, but make no mistake the jumping needed to be timed very well, for each vine moved at different speeds. Other levels have you running, jumping, and lying down to avoid rocks and boulders which will crush you if you are not skillful enough to evade them. Then there are the Alligator infested waters that you must swim across and underneath using only your knife and air supply to fight your way to safety. And finally you find the damsel in distress, who is quickly about to become tonight’s soup of the day, unless you save her from the natives with the big spears that are trying to stop you from rescuing her. Of course, after you do rescue her, you have to repeat the process over and over, with more challenging difficulties and enemies. Jungle Hunt was a very fun game for a more simple time in PC gaming history.

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