Harmful touch
Video game concept
Simply coming into contact with your enemies is enough to hurt or even kill you. It is most commonly seen in platform games.
616
games
90platforms
Alternate names: Killing touch, Creature collision damage, Contact damage
ST 1990
NES 1984-07-28
WIN 2014-06-26
DOS 1989
NES 1988-10-23
WIN 2013-08
ST 1992
GB ? *
C16 1987
MSX 1983
X360 2009-10-02
CPC 1984
Simply coming into contact with monsters, enemies, whatever else is enough for them to harm and even kill you without them having to raise even a finger to attack you. It's as if the protagonist is hyper-allergic to his/her enemies and either instantly dies on contact or shortly thereafter (on prolonged contact). Does not imply instant death although it is common (especially in older games).
Should NOT be used when two moving vehicles, especially aircraft, are in question. Or an aircraft and a solid structure (do you really expect an aircraft to survive a fullspeed collision with a highrise?).
This is sometimes reversed. For example, when Sonic does his spinning thing. Or when the game uses jumping on heads as a form of attack.
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Should NOT be used when two moving vehicles, especially aircraft, are in question. Or an aircraft and a solid structure (do you really expect an aircraft to survive a fullspeed collision with a highrise?).
This is sometimes reversed. For example, when Sonic does his spinning thing. Or when the game uses jumping on heads as a form of attack.
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Games by year
The first Harmful touch video game was released in 1979.
Nintendo, Software Projects and Ocean published most of these games.
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Platforms
Linux | 74 | ||
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Windows | 61 | ||
Amstrad CPC | 45 | ||
MS-DOS | 26 | ||
C64 | 23 | ||
NES | 21 | ||
GB | 21 | ||
Amiga | 20 | ||
Apple II E | 17 | ||
ZX Spectrum | 15 | ||
GBA | 15 | ||
Atari ST | 13 | ||
Mac OS X | 13 | ||
MSX | 12 | ||
Android | 10 | ||
SNES | 10 | ||
Mega Drive | 9 | ||
Atari 400/800 | 8 | ||
Memotech MTX | 8 | ||
X360 | 8 | ||
GBC | 8 | ||
C16/Plus4 | 7 | ||
Arcade | 7 | ||
Master System | 7 | ||
BeOS | 6 | ||
iOS | 6 | ||
Atari 7800 | 6 | ||
Tandy Coco | 6 | ||
Wii | 6 | ||
BSD | 5 |