The Jungle Cruise game changes have definitely helped some individuals play game a little better, but these changes were definitely not necessary. The secret that was going to be posted was regarding the up arrow key. Using the up arrow key made your jungle cruise boat speed up, but many individuals felt this had no impact on the game. The up arrow key had a major influence on the jungle cruise game, and caused you to lose roughly 20-22 gas every scene, compared to 10-12 gas loss using only left/right/down arrow keys. This was the big secret to this game, and your top score above 25,000 would have easily surpassed 50,000 (I Guarantee It). Unfortunately, This secret really does not have much impact on this game anymore because you receive so much more gas. Anyways, The following email message was sent to vmk staff using the contact us page:
"VMK Staff: The Jungle Cruise game has never been my area of expertise, but recently a fellow vmk'er created a tournament that peaked my interest. During this tournament, I learned to appreciate and enjoy The Jungle Cruise game while learning different game secrets and techniques. The Jungle Cruise game has never been an easy game to learn for many vmk'ers. The Fireworks game initially had flickering fireworks before disappearing, but later was modified to white stars before disappearing. This assisted many vmk'ers bursting fireworks at their peak, and also helped elevate their scores. This was a great enhancement to the Fireworks game. Unfortunately, I do not have the same feedback regarding The Jungle Cruise game. When taking pictures of centering the camera around animal for maximum points has become much more difficult and most pictures only provide a "Good" rating. The first scene every round provides no more animals for picture taking and really should either incorporate animals or be removed from game. The third round becomes much more difficult with animals appearing and disappearing at a rapid rate. The third round "Jungle Cruise Dock" starts out with rocks spreading across the river and cannot be avoided. These changes have definitely made The Jungle Cruise game more difficult for vmk'ers, and may have some adverse affects with not too many people playing anymore. This email message makes emphasis on many modifications many vmk'ers and myself found annoying, but I wanted to also comment on some good changes. Providing more photographs allows people to snap many more pictures without worrying about running out of film. The gas containers now providing 20 gas counts allows for an extended game. These are pretty much the only positive changes I can communicate today. Hopefully, After playing this game you will see how some changes do not benefit or enhance this game, but instead adversely or negatively affect game play. Please consider modifying some aspects of this game so it will be more enjoyable for vmk'ers. Thanks for your time reading this email message..."
My apologies if anyone finds the game more beneficial, but the up arrow key secret above would have made this game originally more enjoyable. I could not let this slide by, as many people never knew that secret regarding the up arrow key and would have scored much higher originally. These changes will never allow any vmk'er to score close to 60,000 anymore, and the game is definitely much much more difficult...
