Fire Truck (video game)

Fire Truck
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)Atari, Inc.
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)Howard Delman (programming)
John Ray (hardware engineer)[3]
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, co-op

Fire Truck is a black-and-white 1978 arcade game developed and published by Atari, Inc.[4] According to GamesRadar, it was the earliest video game with cooperative gameplay where two players have to work together.[5][6] Fire Truck is built on the multi-directional scrolling technology created for Atari's Super Bug released the previous year.[7]

A single-player version was released as Smokey Joe.[8][9] It is internally identical to Fire Truck.[7] Both games were programmed by Howard Delman.[10] Fire Truck was distributed in Japan by Namco.[1]

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  2. ^ "Production Numbers" (PDF). Atari Games. August 31, 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 10, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
  3. ^ "Fire Truck". Gaming-History. Archived from the original on 12 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Fire Truck - Overview". allgame. Archived from the original on 2014-12-10. Retrieved 2009-08-20.
  5. ^ "Gaming's most important evolutions, Xbox 360 Features". GamesRadar. 2010-10-08. Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2011-10-24.
  6. ^ "Atari. The investment". Play Meter. Vol. 4, no. 11. 15 June 1978. p. 2.
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  8. ^ "Smokey Joe - Videogame by Atari". Archived from the original on 2010-11-23. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
  9. ^ "Game Classification: Fire Truck / Smokey Joe (1978)". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
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