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Fireflies

The player controls a bug jar, and attempts to catch all the fireflies which flit about the screen. Fireflies are represented by single pixel dots which intermittently turn on and off as they move randomly…

31 December 1982

Fireflies is an arcade, released 31 December 1982 on Apple II.

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What Fireflies is

Fireflies was released in 1982. It was published by Softdisk Publishing. It is available on Apple II only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The player controls a bug jar, and attempts to catch all the fireflies which flit about the screen. Fireflies are represented by single pixel dots which intermittently turn on and off as they move randomly about the screen. The player must attempt to guess their location, and correctly open their bug jar while over the firefly.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Fireflies launched on 31 December 1982, within three weeks of Trashman, King Kong, Evolution and Xevious.

Released around the same time: Trashman, King Kong, Evolution, Xevious.

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When did Fireflies come out?
Fireflies was released on 31 December 1982 for Apple II.

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