Two little monkeys toss bananas between skyscrapers and count on their fingers to score a hit. Gorillas isn't a game with a story — it's pure physics, darkness, and sounds like from a telegraph. Anyone expecting some plot here got their comeuppance.
You're from an era when computers ran on QBasic, and the creators of the Microsoft Qbasic package just wanted to show how it's done. The whole thing is a school project that accidentally crossed the line from boring and became a piece of history. You settle into New York packed with buildings that pixelated primates weave through. Your goal: experience, angle, velocity — hit your opponent with a banana across wind and architecture obstacles. Point after point, round after round, until one of you drops to the ground like a melon from an eightieth-floor window.
The controls are bare-bones — it's not about reflexes, it's about math and collision. You set the angle, you set the power, then you watch as the banana soars through a space full of buildings that look like they were drawn in pencil. Nothing moved elegantly, everything is blocky, jerky, without graphical polish. But that's exactly where something original lives — the computer tells you: this isn't a game for fun, this is a lesson for someone who wants to learn to code.
Today Gorillas is a relic of a time when playing and learning blended together. Every other, more sophisticated thing engineers managed to create steamrolled over it, but it stayed as proof that a game doesn't need to be beautiful to be unforgettable. Plenty of people were drawn here by that very simplicity — you aimed, you threw, the other guy watched what happened. Nothing more. And that's exactly why they never forgot it.
Marksmen and the old guard from the Giga-Hertz era still fire it up in a browser like a nostalgic beer. This isn't a game to play today, it's a glimpse into a moment when "computer game" meant simplicity and logic. Play it so you understand how games evolved from pixel-pushing to what you're playing now — and how it all started right here: two monkeys and one banana.
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