Help Wanted (video game)
2008 video game
Help Wanted: 50 Wacky Jobs! (or Help Wanted for short), known as Hataraku Hito: Hard Working People (はたらくヒト, Hataraku Hito) in Japan, and Job Island: Hard Working People in the PAL region, is a game that features a collection of various Wii Remote-based minigames. The game offers a story mode (Employment Office), quick play mode (Career Fair), and multiplayer mode (Job Battle). However, only 15 of the 50 jobs can be played in multiplayer mode. The game is developed and published by Hudson Soft and was released in Japan for Nintendo's Wii on November 27, 2008, in Europe on March 13, 2009, in Australia on March 27, 2009, and in North America on May 12, 2009.
The game's artwork and presentation as a multi-game compilation is reminiscent of the Deca Sports video game series also developed by Hudson Soft, and its European title implies that the game is ostensibly a spin-off of such series, which is titled Sports Island there.
Story
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