May 2020 - Jungle Strike

[NinjaKat]

AGA Game of the Month for May, 2020, is Jungle Strike!

General Kilbaba, the Desert Madman, is dead. But insanity and terrorism runs in his family. His son, also named Kilbaba, is as vicious as his father, maybe even more so. And he has a vengeance that Kilbaba Senior never had. Someone shed the blood of his family, so he must shed their blood as well and shed a thousand times more. He isn’t very focused on whose blood it needs to be: Anyone American will do.

But even though the younger Madman retains all the wealth his father was able to accumulate (which is to say, steal), he has none of his political resources. However, Kilbaba was able to smuggle out the materials from his father’s nuclear weapons program. He yearns to continue the program but doesn’t have anywhere to set it up.

Enter Carlos Ortega, the notorious and violent South American Drug Lord, the largest merchant of addiction, misery and fear in any hemisphere. He used his wealth to live in corrupt luxury and build up the largest private army in the world. But U.S. drug agents were intercepting more and more of his shipments and impounding property he thought he had well hidden behind paperwork and dummy corporations. He was beginning to experience cash flow difficulties, which compromised his authority and reputation. The Drug Lord had heard about the Madman’s dilemma. He had the vehicles to move atomic weapons materials and the facilities to assemble them; the means to deliver them were within his grasp as well. One phonecall was all it took for the Drug Lord and the Madman to become partners. The Drug Lord’s business losses will be avenged and the Madman’s family “honour” will be restored. All it will take is a nuclear strike against the United States.

Luckily, their plan is still in the early stages. It isn’t too late to stop them. U.S. intelligence agencies know the outline of the Drug Lord’s and Madman’s plans, but not the details. Those plans have advanced to the point where military intervention is necessary. Your job is to successfully complete all the campaigns assigned to you, as well as every mission that make up the campaigns. Desert Strike was just a warm-up. In Jungle Strike, things will really get hot.

Information:

• Amiga Hardware: AGA
  
• Release Year: 1994
• Disks: 3
• WHDLoad: Yes
• Players: 1 only
• Publisher: Electronic Arts
• Developer: Hyperial Software Developments

Links to game information:

• Wikipedia Article
• Lemon Amiga Info
• Hall of Light
• Manual for the CD32 version (All I could find)

Please refer to the 'Game of the Month Rules and Participation' post for information on how to participate!  Good Luck!

* To qualify for the game of the month, you must play starting with campaign 1.

[quantum8]

I guess I should practice up on this one too. Haven't really played it yet!

[NinjaKat]

Played a bit on my NinjaKat the other night.  Not sure there is really a score.  Will have to work out how we judge this one this month... perhaps a review is in order!?  I'll have more of a go and see what happens.

ok it looks like you have to finish a campaign to get to the win screen... going to have to put some effort in!!!

[NinjaKat]

Well that was tough!  Many attempts over a couple of nights, and finally made it through the first campaign!  Last life and low armour.... and then they make you fly between buildings to land... the pressure!!!
Great game though, one of my new favourites.

Played on the NinjaKat, Amiberry, which is now running a Pi4! 

Score 218500

[NinjaKat]

Got to say I was bit addicted to this game this month!  I found out the first time you get to see a score was after the first campaign, and WOW, how hard was it to get there!  I had to conserve fuel, find armour repair at the right times, and always felt like you were so close to getting there each time...  had a great time with this one.  Just a shame I was the only one posting a high score!  Oh well, another trophy to the cabinet!!  Can't complain too much!

Final Scores:
FIRST: NinjaKat 218500 (awarded AGA Game of the Month - May 2020 Award!)