''Firefox'' is a 1984

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based on the 1982

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film of the same name. It was produced in 1984Atari Vax emails
"And to my knowledge, Coin-op has yet to sacrifice quality to get an on-time delivery. ''Firefox'' was supposed to start production 1/23/84; millions in parts are all staged ready for production, but it has not started (1/31/84) because the software is not ready". as Atari, Inc.'s only

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. Like Atari's first-person ''

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'' and '' Empire Strikes Back'', ''Firefox'' came as both an upright and sit down cabinet with a

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style controller.

Development

''Firefox'' was primarily designed by Mike Hally and Dave Ralston, and programmed by Greg Rivera and Norm Avellar. The cabinet has stereo sound with an additional headphone port and volume control in the front. All ''Firefox'' cabinets shipped with a 19" Amplifone

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monitor, and utilized an Atari quad-

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. ''Firefox''s power requirements necessitated the use of two Atari AR-II power supplies. To collect the LaserDisc video, developers Mike Hally and Moe Shore sifted through 20 to 30 hours' worth of footage shot for the film. Most of the resulting footage was first-person shots filmed from helicopters flying over

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and

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. ''Firefox'' shares a cabinet with ''

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'', although significantly fewer ''I, Robot'' machines were produced.

Reception

In Japan, ''Game Machine'' listed ''Firefox'' on their April 1, 1984 issue as being the third most-successful upright/cockpit arcade unit of the month. In the United States, it was the top-grossing laserdisc game on the ''

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'' arcade charts in July 1984.

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