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TerraFire

TerraFire is an award-winning arcade game featuring 3D-rendered graphics, realistic gravitational physics and 360 degree parallax scrolling. Blast your ship through heavily defended underground caverns, past…

1 October 1997

TerraFire is an arcade developed by ORT Software, released 1 October 1997 on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What TerraFire is

TerraFire is an arcade game developed by ORT Software and released in 1997. It is available on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

TerraFire is an award-winning arcade game featuring 3D-rendered graphics, realistic gravitational physics and 360 degree parallax scrolling. Blast your ship through heavily defended underground caverns, past wind tunnels, fire-walls and subterranean lakes. Recover stolen nuclear pods using your ship's tractor beam, then carry them back to the planet surface and beyond into hyperspace. TerraFire features 27 missions (including 6 hyperspace levels), spread across 5 unique worlds.
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How it plays

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

What it launched against

TerraFire launched on 1 October 1997, within three weeks of Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Grand Theft Auto, Resident Evil: Director's Cut and Ultima Online.

Released around the same time: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Grand Theft Auto, Resident Evil: Director's Cut, Ultima Online.

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When did TerraFire come out?
TerraFire was released on 1 October 1997 for DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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