Advertising
Television ads for the game memorably featured a series of brightly-colored cartoon hippos dancing in a conga line and singing, "Hungry Hungry Hip-pos!" to the beat. The older theme offered a mini song:
- "It's a race, it's a chase, hurry up and feed their face!
- Who will win? No one knows! Feed the hungry hip-ip-pos!
- Hungry hungry hippos! (open up and there it goes!)"
The 1980s-era advertisement featured a different song:
- If you wanna win the game you've gotta take good aim
- And get the most marbles with your hippo
- Playin' Hungry Hungry Hippos
- Hungry Hungry Hippos
As of 2009, the song in the commercial is now the Elefun and Friends theme song that appears in the first five commercials.
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