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Fire Fox

Fire Fox

Console: Arcade
TV Standard: Region Not Set
Developer(s): Atari
Publisher(s): Atari Games
Release Date: 1984-01-01
Players: 1
Co-op: No
ESRB: E - Everyone
Type: Action, Shooter

Firefox is an arcade game based on the 1982 Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. It was produced in 1984 as Atari, Inc.'s only LaserDisc video game. Like Atari's first-person Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, Firefox came as both an upright and sit down cabinet with a yoke style controller.

To develop the laserdisc footage, two developers, Mike Hally and Moe Shore, sifted through miles of footage from the film, amounting to 20 to 30 hours' worth. Most of the resulting footage was first-person shots filmed from helicopters flying over Greenland and Scandinavia.