{"id":3237,"date":"2014-07-17T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T13:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retrovideogamesystems.com\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2018-01-25T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:37:24","slug":"h-e-r-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retrovideogamesystems.com\/h-e-r-o\/","title":{"rendered":"H.E.R.O."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"300px-Hero-titel\"<\/a>The title of this superb game H.E.R.O. is actually an acronym standing for H<\/strong>elicopter E<\/strong>mergency R<\/strong>escue O<\/strong>peration.\u00a0 Written by John Van Ryzin and published by Activision this epic, single-player video game was first released on the Atari 2600 in March 1984.<\/p>\n

Funnily enough your role in the game is as a hero called Roderick Hero (sometimes styled as “R. Hero”, a play on “our hero”).\u00a0 He is a one-man rescue team and his mission is to rescue miners that are trapped inside Mount Leone.<\/p>\n

At his disposal he has a few items to help him on his way but his main piece of kit is in the form of a backpack-mounted helicopter unit.\u00a0 With this he can fly and hover enabeling him to travel deep into to bowls of the mines.<\/p>\n

He only has a limited amount of power in his back pack and is only being able to rescue one miner at a time, so as they say time is of the essence!\u00a0 With each rescue the next miner is trapped further into the mine making his task more and more difficult.<\/p>\n

To help Roderick in his task he also has a helmet mounted laser and a limited supply of dynamite to help overcome some nasty obstacles along the way.\u00a0 As you travel through the mines some are illuminated by lanterns that are mounted to the walls, if these are accidentally hit by your laser then your task becomes even more difficult, navigating the mine in complete darkness.<\/p>\n

The Atari 2600 version<\/span>
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