Toki

The player must traverse several levels with a miniboss at the end. Despite his apparent handicap, his slowness as an ape, and the fact that almost any attack can kill him, Toki is able to spit powerful shots that will help him in defeating enemies and obstacles that try to slow him down in his mission. There is a timer for each stage.

Toki can make use of items such as power-ups for his spit; lucky rabbit feet which can give Toki bursts of superhuman agility and jumping skill; clocks which add extra time to the countdown; fruit which can add to Toki's bonus points; keys which unlock bonus areas; a special helmet that protects him from upwards attacks (the helmet rather comically resembles an American football helmet); extra lives; and magic coins (food in the Genesis version) which when collected in abundance can obtain Toki an extra life.

The protagonist of the game is a muscular, loincloth-wearing, Tarzanesque tribesman named Toki (known in Japan and in some ports as JuJu), who up until recently lived a primitive yet contented life in the jungles of a vast and wild island in the South Seas.

This all ends tragically when the beautiful Miho, princess of Toki's tribe of jungle men, and a potential suitor to Toki, is kidnapped by the treacherous witch doctor Vookimedlo. Miho is taken to a vast golden palace at the summit of the island, which Vookimedlo has conjured up for himself to reside in. The wicked shaman then casts a spell to transform all the human inhabitants of the island into various animals and beasts, before they can defend themselves against the evil magic.

In North America, Toki was ranked second among arcade games in a January 1990 equipment survey by Play Meter, while RePlay listed it in its January 1990 issue as being the second most-popular arcade game of the previous month. In Japan, Game Machine listed it on their March 15, 1990 issue as being the fifth most-popular arcade game for the previous two weeks. It received a generally favorable reception from critics. Computer and Video Games considered the game difficult but fun and addictive.

The Games Machine's Mark Caswell felt the game was very playable and worth checking out. Henrik Fisch and Martin Gaksch, from Power Play, opined that it was a beautiful, varied, imaginative and very entertaining arcade game. Tilt's Alain Huyghues-Lacour stated that "Toki is an arcade game unlike any other; it will appeal to all fans of classic Japanese games, like Super Mario Bros." Hardcore Gaming 101's Kurt Kalata proclaimed that "There were plenty of prehistoric themed sidescrollers in the late 80s/early 90s (...)

The original game, ported by Magic Team, was released for iOS on September 7, 2009 in the United States.

A remake was published by Microids in 2018 for Nintendo Switch, followed by versions for Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Luna.