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Star Fire

Star Fire is an early color game programmed by David Rolfe with graphics designed by Ted Michon and Susan Ogg. It was released by Exidy in 1979. Star Fire is a first-person space shooter where your mission is…

1 June 1979

Star Fire is an arcade developed by Technical Magic, released 1 June 1979 on Arcade.

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What Star Fire is

Star Fire is an arcade game developed by Technical Magic and released in 1979. It was published by Exidy. It is available on Arcade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Star Fire is an early color game programmed by David Rolfe with graphics designed by Ted Michon and Susan Ogg. It was released by Exidy in 1979. Star Fire is a first-person space shooter where your mission is to seek out and destroy enemy spacecraft while avoiding incoming missiles. If a number of elements of Star Fire seem similar to Star Wars, your eyes are not deceiving you. Star Fire was originally designed as a Star Wars game, with the eventual hope that either a license would be purchased or that they would change enough of the elements to avoid any legal entanglements. Originally, the authors had hoped that Midway would pick up the game for distribution, but they passed and instead…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

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When did Star Fire come out?
Star Fire was released on 1 June 1979 for Arcade.

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