Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics
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Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics - released in Japan as , and in Europe as Joe & Mac 3: Lost in the Tropics - is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System
video game and a sequel to Joe & Mac
. Congo's Caper
is a video game that plays similar to this release and was a prequel to this game in the European market.
belonging to the Chief
of Kali Village, and it's up to the player to retrieve it by using the seven rainbow
stones that he will receive in the story.
The object of the game is to defeat Neanderthal
s with two caveman
ninja
heroes along with dinosaur
s and huge level boss
es. Each player controls either Joe or Mac with limited lives and continues. If the player cannot defeat the game using those lives and continues, the game starts at the very beginning. Players can also choose to fall in love with a girlfriend
in their Stone Age
village; giving her flower
s and meat
as presents. Once the player gets married, he gets to father a child. Stone wheels are the official currency in the game and players can replay levels in order to get more stone wheels. An overhead free roam map offers a chance for players to select their level like they were playing a console role-playing game. However, the action-packed levels themselves are in side view. Only one of the levels took place in a tropical environment; causing gamers to question the "Lost in the Tropics" in the title screen.
The manufacturer's suggested retail price for the original Japanese was 8,500 yen (approximately $65 USD).
This level takes place in a vast green valley. It is the first level, so it is simple. There are mine carts, geyser
s, and giant earthworm
s. The boss is a Stegosaurus
, which the players have to fight the enemies on his back, and when it's asleep, a neanderthal wakes the dinosaur up and then the players have to fight it. When the player defeats the Stegosaurus, he will earn the red stone.
The Deep Tropics
This level takes place in a deep jungle, where there are a lot of pterodactyls, not to mention a friendly one who will the players a ride. The boss is a giant Pteranodon
. When the player finishes the level, he will earn the yellow stone.
The Snowy Rockies
This level takes place in a snowy mountain range. There are avalanche
s in this level, and also mice that pop out of the snow. The boss is a Triceratops
who shoots snowballs out of his nose. When the player finishes the level, he will earn the green stone. The level gets its name after the Rocky Mountains
.
The Murky Swampland
This level takes in a giant swamp
with ferocious pitcher plant
s, electric fish, a friendly Styracosaurus
and Plesiosaurus
who will give the players a ride. The boss is a giant Elasmosaurus
whose attacks are shooting water balls, and sticking his flippers and tail up into the surface. When the player finishes the level, he will earn the blue stone,
The Scarlet Carpet
This level takes place in a volcanic land with lava
. The boss is a Tyrannosaurus Rex who first attacks by stomping his foot at the players and then shows his face. When the player finishes the level, he will earn the indigo stone.
Gork's Lair
The levels first begins as the same scenery as in Kali Kali Valley, only during a thunderstorm
. Next, players have to battle the same bosses(Stegosaurus, Pteranodon, Triceratops, Elasmosaurus, and T-Rex) a second time. Finally the player finally battles Gork, when the player defeats him the first time, he will get power from the crown and turn into a warthog
demon. When the player defeats Gork a second time, you will earn the crown and end the game.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...
video game and a sequel to Joe & Mac
Joe & Mac
Joe & Mac in USA, Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja in Europe, and in Japan, is a 1991 platform game released for the arcades by Data East...
. Congo's Caper
Congo's Caper
Congo's Caper, known in Japan as , is a Super Nintendo/Super Famicom video game by Data East. The Japanese game has a 1992 copyright, while the English game has a 1993 copyright....
is a video game that plays similar to this release and was a prequel to this game in the European market.
Story and gameplay
A caveman named Gork has stolen the crownCrown (headgear)
A crown is the traditional symbolic form of headgear worn by a monarch or by a deity, for whom the crown traditionally represents power, legitimacy, immortality, righteousness, victory, triumph, resurrection, honour and glory of life after death. In art, the crown may be shown being offered to...
belonging to the Chief
Tribal chief
A tribal chief is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom. Tribal societies with social stratification under a single leader emerged in the Neolithic period out of earlier tribal structures with little stratification, and they remained prevalent throughout the Iron Age.In the case of ...
of Kali Village, and it's up to the player to retrieve it by using the seven rainbow
Rainbow
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines on to droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. It takes the form of a multicoloured arc...
stones that he will receive in the story.
The object of the game is to defeat Neanderthal
Neanderthal
The Neanderthal is an extinct member of the Homo genus known from Pleistocene specimens found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia...
s with two caveman
Caveman
A caveman or troglodyte is a stock character based upon widespread concepts of the way in which early prehistoric humans may have looked and behaved...
ninja
Ninja
A or was a covert agent or mercenary of feudal Japan specializing in unorthodox arts of war. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, as well as open combat in certain situations...
heroes along with dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
s and huge level boss
Boss (video games)
A boss is an enemy-based challenge which is found in video games. A fight with a boss character is commonly referred to as a boss battle or boss fight...
es. Each player controls either Joe or Mac with limited lives and continues. If the player cannot defeat the game using those lives and continues, the game starts at the very beginning. Players can also choose to fall in love with a girlfriend
Girlfriend
Girlfriend is a term that can refer to either a female partner in a non-marital romantic relationship or a female non-romantic friend that is closer than other friends....
in their Stone Age
Stone Age
The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period, lasting about 2.5 million years , during which humans and their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporary genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus, widely used exclusively stone as their hard material in the...
village; giving her flower
Flower
A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs...
s and meat
Meat
Meat is animal flesh that is used as food. Most often, this means the skeletal muscle and associated fat and other tissues, but it may also describe other edible tissues such as organs and offal...
as presents. Once the player gets married, he gets to father a child. Stone wheels are the official currency in the game and players can replay levels in order to get more stone wheels. An overhead free roam map offers a chance for players to select their level like they were playing a console role-playing game. However, the action-packed levels themselves are in side view. Only one of the levels took place in a tropical environment; causing gamers to question the "Lost in the Tropics" in the title screen.
The manufacturer's suggested retail price for the original Japanese was 8,500 yen (approximately $65 USD).
Levels
Kali Kali ValleyThis level takes place in a vast green valley. It is the first level, so it is simple. There are mine carts, geyser
Geyser
A geyser is a spring characterized by intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by a vapour phase . The word geyser comes from Geysir, the name of an erupting spring at Haukadalur, Iceland; that name, in turn, comes from the Icelandic verb geysa, "to gush", the verb...
s, and giant earthworm
Earthworm
Earthworm is the common name for the largest members of Oligochaeta in the phylum Annelida. In classical systems they were placed in the order Opisthopora, on the basis of the male pores opening posterior to the female pores, even though the internal male segments are anterior to the female...
s. The boss is a Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus is a genus of armored stegosaurid dinosaur. They lived during the Late Jurassic period , some 155 to 150 million years ago in what is now western North America. In 2006, a specimen of Stegosaurus was announced from Portugal, showing that they were present in Europe as well...
, which the players have to fight the enemies on his back, and when it's asleep, a neanderthal wakes the dinosaur up and then the players have to fight it. When the player defeats the Stegosaurus, he will earn the red stone.
The Deep Tropics
This level takes place in a deep jungle, where there are a lot of pterodactyls, not to mention a friendly one who will the players a ride. The boss is a giant Pteranodon
Pteranodon
Pteranodon , from the Late Cretaceous geological period of North America in present day Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota, was one of the largest pterosaur genera and had a maximum wingspan of over...
. When the player finishes the level, he will earn the yellow stone.
The Snowy Rockies
This level takes place in a snowy mountain range. There are avalanche
Avalanche
An avalanche is a sudden rapid flow of snow down a slope, occurring when either natural triggers or human activity causes a critical escalating transition from the slow equilibrium evolution of the snow pack. Typically occurring in mountainous terrain, an avalanche can mix air and water with the...
s in this level, and also mice that pop out of the snow. The boss is a Triceratops
Triceratops
Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous–Paleogene...
who shoots snowballs out of his nose. When the player finishes the level, he will earn the green stone. The level gets its name after the Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States...
.
The Murky Swampland
This level takes in a giant swamp
Swamp
A swamp is a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water. A swamp generally has a large number of hammocks, or dry-land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation that tolerates periodical inundation. The two main types of swamp are "true" or swamp...
with ferocious pitcher plant
Pitcher plant
Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap. It has been widely assumed that the various sorts of pitfall trap evolved from rolled leaves, with selection pressure favouring more deeply cupped leaves over...
s, electric fish, a friendly Styracosaurus
Styracosaurus
Styracosaurus was a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period , about 76.5 to 75.0 million years ago...
and Plesiosaurus
Plesiosaurus
Plesiosaurus was a genus of large marine sauropterygian reptile that lived during the early part of the Jurassic Period, and is known by nearly complete skeletons from the Lias of England...
who will give the players a ride. The boss is a giant Elasmosaurus
Elasmosaurus
Elasmosaurus + σαυρος sauros 'lizard') is a genus of plesiosaur with an extremely long neck that lived in the Late Cretaceous period , 80.5 million years ago.-Description:...
whose attacks are shooting water balls, and sticking his flippers and tail up into the surface. When the player finishes the level, he will earn the blue stone,
The Scarlet Carpet
This level takes place in a volcanic land with lava
Lava
Lava refers both to molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption and the resulting rock after solidification and cooling. This molten rock is formed in the interior of some planets, including Earth, and some of their satellites. When first erupted from a volcanic vent, lava is a liquid at...
. The boss is a Tyrannosaurus Rex who first attacks by stomping his foot at the players and then shows his face. When the player finishes the level, he will earn the indigo stone.
Gork's Lair
The levels first begins as the same scenery as in Kali Kali Valley, only during a thunderstorm
Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm, a lightning storm, thundershower or simply a storm is a form of weather characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder. The meteorologically assigned cloud type associated with the...
. Next, players have to battle the same bosses(Stegosaurus, Pteranodon, Triceratops, Elasmosaurus, and T-Rex) a second time. Finally the player finally battles Gork, when the player defeats him the first time, he will get power from the crown and turn into a warthog
Warthog
The Warthog or Common Warthog is a wild member of the pig family that lives in grassland, savanna, and woodland in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the past it was commonly treated as a subspecies of P...
demon. When the player defeats Gork a second time, you will earn the crown and end the game.
External links
- Tatakae Genshijin 3 - Shuyaku ha Yappari - Joe & Mac at superfamicom.org
- 戦え原始人3 / Tatakae Genshijin 3 at super-famicom.jp