H.E.R.O. - Information

H.E.R.O. was an arcade game where the player controlled Roderick Hero and flew him through a variety of caverns in search of trapped miners.

R. Hero worked as part of the Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operations. He was equipped with a copter backpack to allow him to fly through the mines, although it only had a limited amount of power (which effectively set a time limit for each level). He could also fire bullets at the various obstacles, which included springing spiders, shaft bats, mine moths, nesting snakes and tentacles.

Some of the shafts had to be blasted first with a stick of dynamite, but the player had to ensure that R. Hero was nowhere nearby when the dynamite went off!

If R. Hero reached the bottom of the shaft and rescued the trapped miner, the points awarded would be based upon the amount of power and dynamite left.

The game featured 20 different mine levels to battle through, and although the first few were very easy, they became progressively harder as more monsters were introduced, along with some mine shafts that had no lighting at all!