Beauty and the Beast is a 1982 release for the Intellivision, by Imagic.

It’s a Donkey Kong clone – in some respects – but with none of the challenge or joy of Nintendo‘s classic platform game.

In Beauty and the Beast you play a dude called “Bashful Buford” on a mission to rescue his girlfriend “Tiny Mabel” from the clutches of the giant ape “Horrible Hank”… Yes, I know…

Buford can climb levels by finding windows that are open. When he reaches the top of each screen he moves further up the building (the Empire State Building?) until he eventually reaches Kong – I mean: Hank…

If Buford falls off the edge of a level he falls all the way back down to the very beginning again and has to start from scratch. So reaching the top is a bit of a challenge. Especially when you take into consideration all the objects flying around that can kill you.

Beauty and the Beast is an interesting curiosity, but isn’t really much more (in spite of what you might read elsewhere).

More: Beauty and the Beast on Wikipedia