''Ugh!'' is an arcade/flight game developed by

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and published in 1992 by

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for the

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, and

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. It is a clone of the 1984 Commodore 64 game ''

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''. ''Ugh!'' was later distributed as

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mainly via

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s and magazine cover disks.

Gameplay

The game features a

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who, in order to appeal to his beloved future mate, controls a stone-age muscle-powered helicopter, picking up passengers and flying them to the desired location for money. The player must venture through 69 levels, and must evade natural obstacles as well as hostile

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s and "Birds" (actually

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s). Collisions with obstacles, hard landings and touching obstacles with the helicopter's rotor inflict damage to the helicopter. Also, powering the helicopter exhausts the pilot, which may be recovered by picking up fruits knocked off a Tree with a Stone. Stone may be also dropped on a hostile monster, knocking it out for a short time. There is a cooperative simultaneous two player mode. The game keeps tracks of the player's progress using level codes; the codes for single player levels are

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song titles, the two-player codes are song titles by

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