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Front Line
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Name: Front Line Developer: Taito Year: 1982 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Front Line Pinout Settings: Front Line Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Front Line DescriptionA vertical shoot-em-up using guns and grenades. Jump into light or heavily armored tanks to fight off the enemy tanks. Toss grenades into the fort to win the battle.Front Line was produced by Taito in 1982. Taito released 487 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967. Other machines made by Taito during the time period Front Line was produced include Jungle Boy, Electric Yo-Yo, Jungle King, Jungle Hunt, Birdie King, Grand Champion, Alpine Ski, Colony 7, Fitter, and Frog & Spiders. Front Line - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.36 (8 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
ConversionThe game uses the same pinout and wiring as Wild Western.Game PlayYou must move upward across enemy battlefields, killing the attacking enemy soldiers with your bullets or grenades while avoiding land mines and big rocks. As you travel farther up, enemy soldiers will man their tanks either big or small and during this sequence, you can fling grenades to destroy these tanks or you can man your own tank big or small. Once you are in a tank, use the rotary to aim your turret and fire. Big tanks can destroy both big and small tanks, but small tanks can only destroy other small tanks. If your tank is hit just once, you must press the Grenade button to escape before it explodes. But if your tank is hit twice, you will be killed.When you make it to the end of the enemy battlefield at the top of the screen, there will be the enemy fortress equipped with a cannon that can destroy whatever tank you are in as well as kill you. Here you must jump out of your tank if you are in one and toss a grenade directly onto the enemy fortress while avoiding the cannon's line of fire. If you succeed in destroying the fortress, an injured enemy soldier will come up waving a white flag and the entire enemy army will surrender to you. Afterwards, you are rewarded a bonus and then the game begins again with increased difficulty. VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Front Line CensusThere are 12,007 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,523 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 161,736 machines (6,804 unique titles).Very Common - There are approximately 88 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 40 of these machines are owned by our active Front Line collectors. And of these, 27 are original dedicated machines, 3 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 10 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Front Line machine for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Front Line circuit boards for sale. Wanted - There are 9 active VAPS members currently looking for Front Line. This game ranks a 23 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 18 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
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