Jungle Swing!

Jungle Swing! was recovered from the golden age of browser games and has been catalogued under sustained reflex activity. Attribution on the original paperwork reads “Chris Hilgert.” The specimen was preserved by the Internet Archive and is emulated here in its original form — no installation, no account, no explanation required.

Assessment: suitable for short recesses. Known side effects include unearned confidence. This file circulates quietly — consider yourself among the few.

Original label: This game involves swinging up a series of branches in a tree, jumping with a mouse click. It requires precise timing, as the angle of the jump changes based on when the click is. When the yeti jumps off a green branch, the branch turns gold. When the yeti jumps off a gold branch, the branch turns red. When the yeti jumps off a red branch, the branch falls off and 3 green branches grow on the 3 next branchless spaces. There are only 25 branches at the start, all of which are green, so to get to the top yeti must swing off of 9 different branches 3 times each to get to the top, as well as the 50 branches that must be climbed to get to the top at all. It was originally released in 2005 for Flash. Later, the game was also remade for iOS and Android with updated graphics.

Curator’s note: any high scores achieved are legally yours to brag about.

Filed under: Action