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Fire Truck

Description

One or two players drive a fire engine through a maze of winding city streets, avoiding parked cars. In one-player mode, a person may drive the front or back of the fire truck. In a two-person game, the front player sits and drives the rig while the rear player stands and steers the trailer.

Fire Truck was produced by Atari in 1978.

Atari released 137 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Atari was based in United States.

Other machines made by Atari during the time period Fire Truck was produced include: Airborne Avenger, Catch, Destroyer, Boxing, Dominos, Sky Raider, Orbit, Skydiver, Avalanche, and Smokey Joe

Specs

Name	Fire Truck
Developer	Atari (United States)
Year	1978
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7814
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Racing
Development Team	Wendi Allen, Support Programmer
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: TV Monitor Color: Black and White 23-Inch, Motorola or Tec
Conversion Class	unique
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player Controls Differ
Controls	First Player - Steering Wheel\|Track Select\|Horn\|Accelerator Second Player - Steering Wheel\|Track Select\|Bell
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Environmental/Cockpit
Control Panel	Fire Truck Control Panel Image
PCB	Fire Truck PCB Image

Video Clips

Atari FIRE TRUCK Arcade Video Game

Game Introduction

Drive the truck through a random maze of streets. The game is played for points and extended play. Player rankings are Sorry, So-So, Good or Ace. A select button at the front and back choose either hard or easy tracks. The game has an overhead view. The game uses inverted video during extended play.

When in one-player mode and the person is steering the trailer, the computer drives the front. In one- and two-player modes, massive oversteering can affect the whole truck and cause a crash. The front player has a horn button and back player has a bell button. Neither sound buttons serve any purpose in game play.

Game Play

Players simply earn points by driving. Extended play is awarded for for earning a high enough score. The fire truck never reaches a fire or any specific destination!

Fire Truck KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.26 (4 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.60

Overall Like	3.75
Fun (Social)	4.00
Fun (Solo)	2.33
Collector Desire	3.75

Technical Rating: 2.94

Gameplay	3.00
Graphics	2.50
Originality	4.00
Sound/Music	2.25

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Cabinet Information

The cabinet is comprised of a seat section attached to stand-up cabinet. The cabinet has a steering wheel mounted down low to accomodate the sitting player and the second steering wheel is mounted behind the seat. The right side of the cabinet accomodates entry for the sit-down player.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Fire Truck Census

There are 15,211 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,644 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,563 machines (6,981 unique titles).

Common - There are 37 known instances of this machine owned by Fire Truck collectors who are active members. Of these, 32 of them are original dedicated machines. 5 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 a Fire Truck machine for sale.

Wanted - Popular - There are 11 active VAPS members currently looking for Fire Truck.

This game ranks a 11 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 17 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Technical

6800 CPU, 65K memory, 1Mhz, two PCB versions

Manuals

Operation, Maintenance and Service Manual - Fire Truck Manual — **Operation, Maintenance and Service Manual**
(121 pages, 10.9 MB File)

Foto-Finder® (Books)

Arcade Treasures Kurtz (ISBN 088740619X) Page: 103; Color photo
The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 65; Color photo Price guide: No

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Dedicated (b83f7f8553623c6efe291e4c0e661fcf)

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