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Help!

For Help! you control a guy who swings a mean stick that will knock out snakes that come up from the ground and climb up the vines you can maneuver on. However the blue striped snakes cannot be killed and are…

31 December 1983

Help! is an arcade developed by Hudson Soft, released 31 December 1983 on Sharp MZ-2200.

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What Help! is

Help! is an arcade game developed by Hudson Soft and released in 1983. It is available on Sharp MZ-2200 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

For Help! you control a guy who swings a mean stick that will knock out snakes that come up from the ground and climb up the vines you can maneuver on. However the blue striped snakes cannot be killed and are quite fast and if they touch our hero he will lose a life and have to listen to some agonizing music and any yellow snakes will advance to the top of the tree. You can also get a game over if enough of the yellow snakes reach the top of the tree and eventually will reach the large apple above your girlfriends head. They’ll then cruelly drop it down on top of her head crushing her! Eventually if you club enough snakes you’ll move on to the next level but the amount of snakes that…
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What it launched against

Help! launched on 31 December 1983, within three weeks of The Witness, Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac and Zoo Keeper.

Released around the same time: The Witness, Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, Zoo Keeper.

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When did Help! come out?
Help! was released on 31 December 1983 for Sharp MZ-2200.

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