• Platform: Commodore 64/128
• Release Date: 1991

Game Description

CJ's Elephant Antics is a colorful, scrolling platformer with a few tricks in its trunk. The game's four main levels each span several screens, vertically as well as horizontally, and become increasingly more complicated, with many dead ends and hidden passages in the final stage. To make it though, the pachyderm protagonist will climb up, float down, and backtrack almost as often as he moves right, towards the level exit. Each stage ends with a boss fight, and is followed by a bonus level that challenges the elephant hero to avoid a number moving obstacles for as long as possible as the screen scrolls automatically and forces him forward.

The game's hero, CJ the Elephant, was captured in his African homeland and crated up to be sent to a zoo in England. Luckily, while in flight over Paris, he was able to break free from his cage, leap from his captors' plane, and use an umbrella he'd found to float safely to the ground. CJ is a long way from home, however, and he'll have to travel through the game's "France," "Switzerland," "Egypt," and "Africa" stages before he is finally reunited with his worried family. He'll face many enemies in his journey, but he's far from helpless. In addition to the umbrella that lets him float safely down from high places, he can fire peanuts from his trunk and collect bombs to throw at the bad guys who stand in his way.

CJ's Elephant Antics also features a two-player mode, based on the single-player game, in which two elephants (one wearing red and the other in yellow) move together through the four platform levels, boss fights, and bonus stages. While the extra fire-power can make it easier to take out baddies, moving through the expansive, maze-like platform levels can be more difficult to do in tandem. ~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide