In that incarnation, the player plays as a little jelly bean with eyes, named Jerry, traveling across a grassy landscape.

Scattered around each level are a number of plants that open up to reveal balls, power-ups, 1-ups, seeds and jumping enhancers.

Similar to Donkey Kong Country, the player must collect letters that spell "JERRY" in each level.

"[23] The game also won the Digital Content Association's AVA Multimedia Grand Prix Award for character design.

The developer was Game Freak: Satoshi Tajiri was the supervisor, Ken Sugimori the character designer, and Yoshinori Sunahara the music composer.

[citation needed] In the proposed sequel, the player would take control of one of six different playable characters, each with a unique special ability.