Back Fire

Description

A classic horizontal shoot-em-up. The main weapon can be powered-up to provide faster and more powerful shots. Weapons such as lightning or three-way shots appear as power-ups.

Back Fire was produced by Tecmo in 1988.

Tecmo released 64 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1985. Tecmo was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Tecmo during the time period Back Fire was produced include: American Football, Gemini Wing, Tecmo Bowl, Rygar (PlayChoice), Argos No Senshi - Legendary Warrior, Tecmo Bowl II, Silk Worm, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Ryukenden, and Shadow Warriors

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Specs

Name	Back Fire
Developer	Tecmo (Japan)
Year	1988
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	6988
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 1 - Fire
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

There are 18 levels to complete the game. If you use a credit to continue in levels 14 through 18, you will start back at level 13.

Back Fire KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Conversion

This game might be a prequel to the classic Silk Worm since the backgrounds are exactly the same in both games. Silk Worm, however, allows two people to play simultaneously while Back Fire only lets people alternate turns.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Back Fire Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 8 known instances of this machine owned by Back Fire collectors who are active members. Of these, 8 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Back Fire circuit board for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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Technical

DIP switch 8 on SW2 allows a no-collision game (you cannot die!) but you cannot collect special weapons power-ups either.

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