The Jungle Book (video game)

The Jungle Book
Cover art of the Mega Drive/Genesis version
Developer(s)	Eurocom Virgin Games
Publisher(s)	Virgin Interactive
Producer(s)	Robb Alvey Hugh Binns Patrick Gilmore
Designer(s)	David Bishop Bill Anderson Erik Yuteo David Perry Robb Alvey Julian Rignall
Programmer(s)	Tim Rogers Tim Swann
Artist(s)	Steve Wilding Adrian Mannion Colin Garratt Steve Bedser
Composer(s)	Mark Miller Tommy Tallarico
Platform(s)	Master System, Sega Genesis, Super NES, Game Boy, Game Gear, NES, PC
Release	1993 (Master System) 1994 (others)
Genre(s)	Platformer
Mode(s)	Single-player

The Jungle Book is a series of video games based on the 1967 Disney animated film The Jungle Book, primarily released in 1994. It was first released by Virgin Interactive in 1993 for the Sega Master System. Conversions for the Game Boy, NES (for which it was the last title released by a third-party developer prior to the console being discontinued), Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear, Super NES, and PC followed in 1994, and a remake for the Game Boy Advance was released in 2003. While gameplay is the same on all versions, technological differences between the systems forced changes – in some case drastic – in level design, resulting in six fairly different versions of the 'same' game. This article is largely based upon the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version.

The player controls Mowgli, a young boy who has been raised by wolves. Mowgli must leave his home in the jungle and go back to the human village because Shere Khan, a tiger, is now hunting him. Mowgli must fight jungle wildlife and ultimately Shere Khan himself to reach his village. During the journey he meets Bagheera, Baloo, King Louie, the hypnotist snake Kaa, as well as the evil Shere Khan.

The player controls a young Mowgli through various side-scrolling levels in a similar mold of Pitfall!. The Mowgli character must shoot or avoid enemies and negotiate platformed levels and enemies by running, jumping, climbing vines and using the various weapons and powerups available during the game. Mowgli starts the game with a banana projectile, but may collect invincibility masks, coconuts, double banana shots, and boomerang bananas during the game.