high voltage Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 In which Atari VCS game you set buildings on fire and try to escape? Was this ever released? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AAirhart Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Towering inferno? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanJr Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 I think you mean Towering Inferno, except you aren't setting the fires, just escaping from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ventrra Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Would that have been the unreleased Fire! by Palmex? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted August 9, 2014 Author Share Posted August 9, 2014 (edited) Towering Inferno, yes thanks. I even own the game, time to play it Edited August 9, 2014 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxsolo2000 Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Would that have been the unreleased Fire! by Palmex? Do you have any further information on this title? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted August 9, 2014 Author Share Posted August 9, 2014 Would that have been the unreleased Fire! by Palmex?[/size] Actually yes that's the one I was thinking of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister-VCS Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Oh no - the former Atari-Games building was set on fire... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Oh no - the former Atari-Games building was set on fire... :facepalm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister-VCS Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 :facepalm: longe live the Atari-Games building Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxpressed Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 There was also Firebug for the Apple II. I think it generated a little controversy in its day. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebug_(video_game) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr SQL Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Firecopter for the CoCo was pretty incredible; full 3D rendering, you could fly around the city and see all the perspectives shift with a pretty good framerate... I was blown away when I loaded it up for the first time bitd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 On 8/8/2014 at 3:19 PM, ventrra said: Would that have been the unreleased Fire! by Palmex? On 8/9/2014 at 6:58 AM, high voltage said: Actually yes that's the one I was thinking of. An game called Fire! that supposedly involved setting fire to things first appeared on some of the original collectors lists of unreleased Atari games that began circulating on the net in the late 1990s and early 2000s including this one. I often wondered about this game myself, as it also appeared in the Rumor Mill section of the Digital Press guide... https://www.digitpress.com/video-game-guide/?mode=GameInfo&gameid=24691 I dug into this a bit recently and I found that the likely original source for the rumored existence of such a game is a snippet from a January 1984 article about collectible and controversial video games that appeared in the St. Petersburg Times (and likely other newspapers as well)... "Fire! likewise generated protests because the "hero" here had to enter a building, set it afire with kerosene, and then escape before the blazing building collapsed. The game from Palmtex was short-lived." https://www.newspapers.com/image/320819914/ However, I believe no such game ever existed and the writer of that article was either confused or simply misinformed. Palmtex was a manufacturer of electronic games that was the original distributor of the Nintendo Game & Watch series of handhelds (including Fire) in North America. The writer of that 1984 article was probably thinking of the game Firebug by Muse that was mentioned above but mistakenly identified it as Fire by Palmtex. The rumored Atari game is thus the result of a case of mistaken identity involving memories from two unrelated games being combined into one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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