Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party
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| Developer(s) | Magenta Software |
| Publisher(s) | SCEE |
| Aspect ratio | 480i (SDTV) |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
| Release date | UK: October 20, 2006 USA: October 30, 2007 |
| Genre(s) | Party |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | PEGI: 3+ |
| Input methods | Buzzers |
Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party is the first game in the Buzz! Junior series of party games. Jungle Party is comprised of forty different mini-games (twenty five in the US version). Many of these mini-games require little knowledge or skill, so that they are more suited to younger children than the normal Buzz! quiz games, although they can also be enjoyed by older children or even adults.
In November 2007, Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party won a British Academy Children's Award BAFTA for best Children's videogame.[1]
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[edit] Gameplay
Up to 4 people can play Jungle Party. Each player has their own coloured monkey, either blue, orange, green or yellow, and controls them using a Buzz controller. The voice-over introduces the games, describes how to play them and comments on the results (taking the place of both Buzz and Rose in the quiz version). Some games simply use just the Buzz! button, while others use the four coloured buttons.
In addition there is a single player mode which features specially customised versions of the multi-player games.
[edit] Games
Some mini-games included with Jungle Party are:
- Simian Shoot-out
- A wild-west themed mini-game, Simian Shoot-out requires you to press the Buzz! button as fast as you can to shoot your opponent, but only when the gorilla says! Simple but fun.
- Hippo Splash
- Remember the colours of the hippos and press the coloured buttons in order!
- Jungle Hurdles
- The monkey players dash along 4 lanes with 4 different coloured hurdles randomly set up. The players have to hit the corresponding button to allow their monkey to jump over the hurdle.
- Monkey Bomb
- A player at random is given a bomb. The longer they hold it, the more points they rack up. At some point though it'll explode so to pass the bomb to another monkey, players press the matching coloured button. When the bomb explodes, whoever has it loses points.
- High Voltage Voting
- The monkeys are in the cockpit of a crashed aircraft, sitting in the seats of the flight crew. Each seat has a light on the back of it. When your light comes on, press the buzzer. If you get it on time, you get to choose which of your opponents gets zapped with an electric shock, making them lose a life.
[edit] Missing US mini-games
While the original European and Australian release featured 40 mini-games, the US version only features 25 games. The following are the 'missing' 15 mini-games:
- Campfire Chaos
- Crate Surprise
- Crazy Climbers
- Crazy Croc
- Deadly Dynamite
- Door Running
- Fruit Fight
- Hippo Splash
- Ostrich Eggs (though this is still available in the single player mode)
- Rain Dance
- Revolvers
- Shields Up
- Snap
- Up The Creek
- Whacker's Revenge
[edit] Cast
Liz Barker (voice-over)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
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