Ugh!

Ugh! is an arcade/flight game developed by Bones Park Software Artistic and published by PlayByte in 1992 for the Amiga, Commodore 64 and DOS. The game is a clone of Space Taxi. It is about a caveman who, in order to please his beloved future wife, pilots a stone-age, muscle-powered helicopter that picks up passengers and flies them to the desired location in exchange for money. The player must venture through 69 levels, dodging both natural obstacles and hostile dinosaurs and "birds" (actually flying dinosaurs). Collisions with obstacles, hard landings and touching obstacles with the helicopter's rotor inflict damage on the helicopter. In addition, the helicopter's engine exhausts the pilot, who can recover by picking up fruit that has fallen from the tree with stones. A stone can also be thrown at an enemy monster to disable it for a short time. Ugh! was later distributed as shareware mainly by Bulletin Board Systems and magazine cover disks. The Commodore 64 version of the game also features a two-player hotseat mode where two players compete against each other to complete the level, while the DOS and Amiga versions feature a cooperative mode for two players at a time. The game tracks the player's progress using level codes; the codes for single-player levels are song titles by Christian Death, and the two-player codes are song titles by Current 93.