''The Berlin Wall'' (released as in Japan) is a 1–2 player platform arcade video game released by Kaneko in 1991; two years after the fall of the actual

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. A Game Gear version was also released exclusively in Japan; this version was going to be released in North America, but was canceled. The player takes control of a young boy who must use his

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to break the blocks that form part of the platform levels comprising each stage. These holes act as falling traps for the many patrolling, multi-coloured

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s and once one has fallen into a hole, the player may then use the hammer on the monster to make it fall through the hole and down to the platform below – causing it to transform into fruit or

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s, which can then be collected and used. Part of the money earned from sales of the arcade version went towards a relief fund for disaster victims through the Japanese Red Cross Society. The game bears a number of similarities to '' Space Panic'', a game generally considered as the first platform video game.

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