''Help Wanted: 50 Wacky Jobs!'' (or ''Help Wanted'' for short), known as in Japan, and ''Job Island: Hard Working People'' in the PAL region, is a game that features a collection of various
Wii Remote
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-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
was a Japanese video game company that released numerous games for video game consoles, home computers and mobile phones, mainly from the 1980s to the 2000s. It was headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo ...
and was released in Japan for
Nintendo's
Wii
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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
''Deca Sports'' (also known as ''Sports Island'' in Europe and ''Deca Sporta'' in Japan), is a series of sports video games developed and published by Hudson Soft, a former subsidiary of Konami.
Overview
Each installment of the ''Deca Sports'' s ...
'' video game series also developed by Hudson Soft, and its European title implies that the game is ostensibly a
spin-off
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*Spin-off (media), a media work derived from an existing work
*Corporate spin-off, a type of corporate action that forms a new company or entity
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of such series, which is titled ''Sports Island'' there.
Story
The planet, Earth, is now at risk after a horrible incident. In the NAZA Space Research Center, a group of men encounter a huge meteor that is striking Earth. Meanwhile, in the Executive Mansion, the president gets a call from NAZA, telling them that the meteor is coming. Inspecting the meteor, they both see an alien behind the meteor and survive when the NAZA S.R.C gets destroyed by the piece of the meteor; however, all four of the men survived without injury under a cost of hope.
Meanwhile, there lived a happy family. The big siblings/protagonists (Tom and Maya), the grandparents, the parents,