Lost In Translation/Line of Fire

Line of Fire
Manufacturer	Sega
Released	1989
Control; Method	Lightgun; 2 Button(s)
Main CPU	(2x) 68000 (@ 12.500 MHz); Z80 (@ 4.000 MHz)
Sound CPU	Stereo; YM2151 (@ 4.000 MHz); Sega PCM (@ 4.000 MHz)
Video; Details	Raster (Horizontal); 320 x 224 pixels; 59.64 Hz; 24,576 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	30 ROMs; 3,547,136 bytes (3.38 MiB)
MAME ID	loffire · loffirej · loffireu

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About The Game

Line of Fire is lightgun controlled arcade video game shoot-em-up for one or two players with setting ranging from enemy bases to thick jungle.

Two commandos find a special weapon hidden deep within an enemy base. Before the commandos can escape to report their findings, they find themselves surrounded by enemy forces and must blast their way through the enemy lines and escape, using the enemies' own super weapon against them.

As well as enemy troops, players will have to contend with artillery, tanks and helicopters.

Trivia

This game is known in Japan as "Bakudan Yarou" (translates from Japanese as 'Bomb Rascal').

This game came in two cabinets. The sit down cabinet has two separate seats. The guns are quite similar to "Laser Ghost"'s guns only without the laser device. The upright cabinet features the guns as 9mm Uzi-type light guns that are mounted to the cabinet like in "Operation Thunderbolt". Unlike Operation Thunderbolt however, Line of Fire's upright cabinet is much slimmer.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Hyper Drive : G.S.M. Sega 4 - PCCB-00035) on 21/07/1990.

Cabinet and Artwork

Line of Fire cabinet.
Line of Fire flyer.
Back of the Line of Fire flyer.

Ports

Box art for the U.S. Gold port of Line of Fire.

Computers: Amstrad CPC (1990); Atari ST (1990); Commodore C64 (1990); Commodore Amiga ("Line of Fire", 1990, U.S. Gold); Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1990)

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
Hyper Drive -G.S.M. SEGA 4-	PCCB-00035^[1]	1990-07-21	Pony Canyon, Inc.	2 CD version.

External Links

Sinclair ZX Spectrum version of Line of Fire at the World of Spectrum

References

↑ Hyper Drive -G.S.M. SEGA 4- (CD) at the VGMdb

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
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[1] Hyper Drive -G.S.M. SEGA 4- (CD) at the VGMdb

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