Game Classification

H.E.R.O., supposedly meaning "Helicopter Equipped Rescue Operation" (or "Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation", "Human Extraction and Rescue Operation"), is a platform-style action game, set in a system of underground mines.

The player's character (known as Roderick Hero according to the game inlay) in H.E.R.O. is a rescue worker with a small helicopter-type backpack, enabling him to fly around the underground mine shafts and caverns. For defense, the character is equipped with a laser beam and a finite supply of sticks of dynamite.

The object of each level is to rescue a trapped mine worker at the extreme end of the mine shaft within a time limit. Dangers along the way include various cave-dwelling animals (such as bats, snakes, spiders and even butterflies) and on later levels, some kind of red ore (magma, on the 8-bit systems) which is lethal to the touch, and water at the bottom of the shaft (where appears a tentacle from an unknown animal).[source:wikipedia]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Apple II - Atari 2600 - Atari 5200 - ColecoVision - Commodore 64 - MSX - ZX Spectrum - Amstrad CPC - Atari 800

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.E.R.O.
• http://www.mobygames.com/game/hero/
• http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/a2600/home/563243.html
• http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/03/c64_0077.html