Banana
In Banana , you are a round little thing on the Amazonas river, hunted by
the man-eating Boconda tribe. A bit like Q*Bert , you jump around on stones
in the river. Jumping is done by placing a cursor, with limited range, above a
stone. If you don’t place it right above the stone, you instead jump into the
water. This isn’t necessarily lethal, since you can jump up on adjacent
stones, or you can go with the flow, as long as you take care not to pulled by
the strong current into a spot where there are no stones to seek refuge on. It
is also in the water that you will catch bananas coming down the stream.
Bananas are necessary to get rid of the Bocondas; they can be placed on top of
stones, and if a Boconda tries to jump at you, they will land on a banana and
slip into the river where they are swept away. They are smart, though, so you
will need to trick them into jumping onto your boobytrapped stones. Instead of
tricking them, you can also swim to the river shore, pick up stones on the
shore and throw them at the Bocondas to make them fall off their stones.
Banana