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Front Line

Description

A vertical shoot-em-up using guns and grenades. Jump into light or heavily armored tanks to fight off the enemy tanks. Toss grenades into the fort to win the battle.

Front Line was produced by Taito in 1982.

Taito released 486 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967. Taito was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Taito during the time period Front Line was produced include: Janputer, Space Cruiser, Zarzon, T.T Mahjong, Space Seeker, Birdie King, Electric Yo-Yo, Jungle Boy, Jungle Hunt, and Jungle King

Specs

Name	Front Line
Developer	Taito (Japan)
Year	1982
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7859
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Taito Classic
Game Specific	Front Line Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Front Line Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Rotary: 8-position switch with push-down button - Fire Buttons: 1 - Grenade
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard - 260 lbs Cabaret/Mini
Control Panel	Front Line Control Panel Image
Side Art	Front Line Side Art Image
PCB	Front Line PCB Image

Video Clips

Front Line Arcade, High Score 112,700pts

Taito Front Line Arcade 1982

Game Play

You must move upward across enemy battlefields, killing the attacking enemy soldiers with your bullets or grenades while avoiding land mines and big rocks. As you travel farther up, enemy soldiers will man their tanks either big or small and during this sequence, you can fling grenades to destroy these tanks or you can man your own tank big or small. Once you are in a tank, use the rotary to aim your turret and fire. Big tanks can destroy both big and small tanks, but small tanks can only destroy other small tanks. If your tank is hit just once, you must press the Grenade button to escape before it explodes. But if your tank is hit twice, you will be killed.

When you make it to the end of the enemy battlefield at the top of the screen, there will be the enemy fortress equipped with a cannon that can destroy whatever tank you are in as well as kill you. Here you must jump out of your tank if you are in one and toss a grenade directly onto the enemy fortress while avoiding the cannon's line of fire. If you succeed in destroying the fortress, an injured enemy soldier will come up waving a white flag and the entire enemy army will surrender to you. Afterwards, you are rewarded a bonus and then the game begins again with increased difficulty.

Front Line KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.36 (8 votes)

Fun Factor: 4.41

Overall Like	4.63
Fun (Social)	2.63
Fun (Solo)	4.50
Collector Desire	4.50

Technical Rating: 4.31

Gameplay	4.50
Graphics	4.13
Originality	4.63
Sound/Music	4.00

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

Conversion

The game uses the same pinout and wiring as Wild Western.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Front Line 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).

Very Common - There are 88 known instances of this machine owned by Front Line collectors who are active members. Of these, 65 of them are original dedicated machines. 3 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 20 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 Front Line machine for sale. There are 4 active VAPS members with a Front Line circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - Popular - There are 13 active VAPS members currently looking for Front Line.

This game ranks a 23 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 18 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

Manuals

Front Line Main Board Connector -G- End View - Front Line Manual — **Front Line Main Board Connector -G- End View**
(1 page, 28 kB File)

Manual - Front Line Manual — **Manual**
(56 pages, 4.6 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (6072ef0db5f260e4b832a6a1caceb543)

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