H.E.R.O. (1984) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

H.E.R.O.

There is trouble in the mines! Volcanic activity has trapped numerous miners, and it is your job to save them. As Roderick Hero, you need to make your way through the dangerous mineshaft avoiding the dangerous…

65 30 March 1984

What H.E.R.O. is

H.E.R.O. is an arcade game developed by Activision and released in 1984. It is available on SG-1000, Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

H.E.R.O. is a video game designed by John Van Ryzin and published by Activision for the Atari 2600 in March 1984. The game has players control Roderick Hero who traverses a mineshaft avoiding enemies and hazards to rescue trapped miners. He travels through the mines equipped with a hoverpack that allows him to traverse the game levels as well as bombs and laser that let him destroy walls and defeat enemies respectively.

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

H.E.R.O. holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 26% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1984 averaged 73, so it scored 8 points below the year average.

Cheats and codes

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