History VideoGame / HammerinHarry

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The first game was made in 1990 and later ported on the [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] a couple of years later. [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hammerin/hammerin.htm A few games on other Nintendo systems]] (Platform/GameBoy and [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]]) followed suit, as well as some pachinko machines. The series became more or less dormant until 2008, when a new installment called ''Hammerin' Hero'' was released for the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP]]. This time, Gen wasn't limited to his carpenter job (despite the title). Instead, he was able to turn into various other jobs as new forms of attack.

* ''Daiku no Gen-san 2: Akage no Dan no Gyakushō (Carpenter Gen 2: Redheaded Dan's Counterattack)'' (1993): MadScientist Dr. Parallel has taken control of the remnants of the Kuromoku-gumi. With Readheaded Dan as [[TheHeavy primary enforcer]], they mean to get revenge on Gen, prompting the carpenter to take up his hammer and fight against the evil company once more.

* ''Ganbare! Daiku no Gen-san (Good Luck! Carpenter Gen)'' (1993): Gen goes up against a revived Kuromoku-gumi, who've built a time machine and wish to take over the future.

The first game was made in 1990 and later ported on the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] a couple of years later. [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hammerin/hammerin.htm A few games on other Nintendo systems]] (UsefulNotes/GameBoy and [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]]) followed suit, as well as some pachinko machines. The series became more or less dormant until 2008, when a new installment called ''Hammerin' Hero'' was released for the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP]]. This time, Gen wasn't limited to his carpenter job (despite the title). Instead, he was able to turn into various other jobs as new forms of attack.

* DropTheHammer: Read the title. The main character uses a hammer.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Done in an odd way regarding the penultimate boss of the console version. She's the Chairman's secretary, but to go toe to toe with Gen, she inexplicably transforms into a wild-haired, muscle-bound wrestler. Considering all the female enemies ''but'' this boss were redrawn to look like men in the American version, apparently the localizers believed keeping the boss female was okay, since she'd be fighting Gen as a monstrous-looking creature and not as herself like the other female enemies were.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: In Japanese version of the console release, Gen fights against a female mini-boss, female enemies, and a female boss. All but the boss were redrawn to be male in the American version. Why the boss stayed the same is unknown, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman but it's likely because she transforms into a monster to fight you, thus making it okay for Gen to hit her]].

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: The in Japanese version of the console release, Gen fights against a female mini-boss, female enemies, and a female boss. All but the boss were redrawn to be male in the American version. Why the boss stayed the same is unknown, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman but it's likely because she transforms into a monster to fight you, thus making it okay for Gen to hit her]].

* ShesAManInJapan: The console version's penultimate level's mini-boss is a woman in the Japanese version, but a man that looks like something out of Film/TheBluesBrothers in the American version.

* WouldHitAGirl: Harry has no qualms knocking out the female Rusty Nailer employees that ran at him in the penultimate level in the console version.

* ''Ikuze! Gen-san: Yūyake Daiku Monogatari (Let's Go! Gen: Sunset Carpenter Story)''/''Hammerin' Hero'' (2008): A reboot of the series, which is essentially a retelling of the first game's story, but including characters and elements from the previous games.

* ''Daiku no Gen-san 2: Akage no Dan no Gyakushō (Carpenter Gen 2: Redheaded Dan's Counterattack)'' (1993): MadScientist Dr. Parallel has taken control of the remnants of the Kuromoki-gumi. With Readheaded Dan as [[TheHeavy primary enforcer]], they mean to get revenge on Gen, prompting the carpenter to take up his hammer and fight against the evil company once more.

* ''Daiku no Gen-san: Ghost Building Company (Carpenter Gen: Ghost Building Company)'' (1992): Gen fights against a construction company made up of monsters and ran by ghosts.

* ''Daiku no Gen-san: Ghost Building Company (Carpenter Gen: Ghost Building Company)'' (1992):

* ''Daiku no Gen-san 2: Akage no Dan no Gyakushō (Carpenter Gen 2: Redheaded Dan's Counterattack)'' (1993):

* ''Ganbare! Daiku no Gen-san (Good Luck! Carpenter Gen)'' (1993):

* ''Daiku no Gen-san: Robot Teikoku no Yabō (Carpenter Gen: The Robot Empire's Ambition)'' (1994):

* ''Daiku no Gen-san: Kachikachi no Tonkachi ga Kachi (Carpenter Gen: Solid Hammer is Solid)'' (2000):

* ''Ikuze! Gen-san: Yūyake Daiku Monogatari (Let's Go! Gen: Sunset Carpenter Story)''/''Hammerin' Hero'' (2008):

* ''Daiku no Gen-san: Beranmechō Sōdōki (Carpenter Gen: Beranme Town Uproar)''/''Hammerin' Harry'' (1990): The evil construction company Rusty Nailers, Inc. (or the "Kuromoku Group" (Black Wood Group) in the original version), which already owns almost everything in town, needs more space to build its latest project, but Harry's home is in the way. They send a few men to tear it down while he's away; he obviously isn't too happy with it and, armed only with his trusty wooden mallet, goes all the way through construction sites, demolished buildings, docks and sewers to exact revenge on the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Rusty Nailers chairman]]. A pretty simple plot that offers also a little bit of commentary about the Japanese economy of the period.