Firefox is an action arcade video game released in 1984. It is based on the 1982 movie with the same name, which features actor Clint Eastwood. This game was Atari's only LaserDisc video game. It was made available in two versions: a standing cabinet and a sitting cabinet. Both versions included a special wheel-shaped controller, similar to Atari's other games like Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back.

Development

Firefox was designed by Mike Hally and Dave Ralston, and programmed by Greg Rivera and Norm Avellar. The game's development cost more than $1 million.

The cabinet includes stereo sound, a headphone port, and volume controls on the front. Every Firefox cabinet came with a 19-inch Amplifone raster monitor and used an Atari quad-POKEY. The game required two Atari AR-II power supplies to operate.

To gather the LaserDisc video, developers Mike Hally and Moe Shore reviewed 20 to 30 hours of footage filmed for the movie. Most of this footage showed first-person views taken from helicopters flying over Greenland and Scandinavia.

Firefox uses the same cabinet as I, Robot, but far fewer I, Robot machines were made.

Reception

In Japan, the Game Machine publication ranked Firefox as the third most successful upright/cockpit arcade machine in March 1984. In the United States, Firefox was the top-grossing laserdisc game on the Play Meter arcade charts in July 1984.