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Rescue Heroes: Billy Blazes! came out for the Game Boy Advance in 2003, developed by M4 and published by VU Games. It was part of that wave of licensed games that tried to capture a younger audience, fitting right in with other action titles on the handheld at the time. You play as Billy Blazes, a firefighter from the Rescue Heroes toy line, and your job is exactly what you'd expect: putting out fires and saving people.

You control Billy through side scrolling levels, moving screen by screen to contain different emergencies. Your main tools are a fire hose to douse flames and an axe to break down obstacles like doors or fallen beams. The key mechanic is managing your water supply; you have a limited tank that refills at hydrants, so you can't just spray endlessly. You also use a grappling hook to swing over gaps or reach higher areas, adding a bit of platforming to the straightforward firefighting. The pacing is urgent but not brutally hard, focused on clearing each area methodically before time or spreading fire causes a failure. It feels like a straightforward, tactile job of problem solving where you see the immediate results of your work.