Game & Watch: Fire (Wide Screen)

Handheld game published 44 years ago:

Fire (c) 1981 Nintendo Co., Ltd.

The player controls two firemen who carry a trampoline and must catch people who fall from a burning building and bounce them into a waiting ambulance. The player is awarded 3 points for each person who reaches the ambulance, and loses one of their three lives for each person who hits the ground.

Speed increases with score. With each 100 points, speed returns to normal before it start to get faster again. As score increases the evacuees come down in greater numbers. A maximum of 9 evacuees can be on the screen at any one time.

- TECHNICAL -

Model FR-27

- TRIVIA -

Released on December 4, 1981 in Japan.

Fire is one of several Game & Watch titles to appear in Super Smash Bros. Brawl in the Flat Zone 2 stage, where players can jump on the trampoline held out by the fremen.

- PORTS -

Fire was recreated in Game & Watch Gallery for the Game Boy, Game & Watch Gallery 3 for the Game Boy Color and Game & Watch Gallery 4 for the Game Boy Advance.

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