Harmful touch
Video game concept
618
games
90platforms
Simply coming into contact with your enemies is enough to hurt or even kill you. It is most commonly seen in platform games.
Notable people involved: Shigeru Miyamoto, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Thomas Mahler, Gennadiy Korol and Andrew Lackey
Alternate names: Killing touch, Creature collision damage, Contact damage
NES 1985-09-13
PS4 2014-07
FDSY 1986-12-19
ST 1991
C64 1986
SPC 1988
SPC 1987
CPC 1986
WIN 2012-10-03
PCE 1990-12-07
ANDR 2010-01-29
WIN 2009-01-24
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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The first Harmful touch video game was released in 1979.
Nintendo, Software Projects, Ocean and Sega published most of these games.
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Most common companies
Nintendo | 27 | |
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Software Projects | 20 | |
Ocean | 17 | |
Sega | 15 | |
Atari | 11 | |
Gremlin Graphics | 11 | |
Capcom | 11 | |
Elite | 10 | |
Tynesoft | 9 | |
Parker Brothers | 7 | |
Hewson | 7 | |
MicroStyle | 6 | |
Cellar Door Games | 6 | |
Titus | 6 | |
Grandslam | 6 |