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.
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Alternate names: Killing touch, Creature collision damage, Contact damage

GBC 1999-12

SPC 1984

INTV 1982

D32 1983

GBA 2007-10-04

GBA 2002

WIN 1997-10

C16 1987

SNES 1992-08-07

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SPC 1987

CPC 1985
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 and Ocean published most of these games.
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