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Wizard Fire Wizard Fire - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Wizard Fire - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

An isometric fantasy adventure game.

Wizard Fire was produced by Data East in 1992.

Data East released 174 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1979. Data East was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Data East during the time period Wizard Fire was produced include: Batman, Desert Assault, Captain America And The Avengers, Caveman Ninja, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michael Jordan, Diet Go Go, Boogie Wings, Dragon Gun, and Dark Seal 2

Specs

Name Wizard Fire
Developer Data East (Japan)
Year 1992
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 10458
Class Wide Release
Genre Adventure
Monitor
Conversion Class JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Joint
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 - FireMagic
Sound Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard
Side Art Wizard Fire Side Art Image

Game Introduction

This game has five different player characters: a Knight, a Bard, a Dwarf, an Elf and a Wizard.

Game Play

Players move through scrolling playfields to destroy fantasy bosses such as dragons. Some of the playfields even have treasure chests that contain magic items such as boots of speed.

Wizard Fire KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Trivia

Many databases state only 100 PCBs were manufactured. Marquees and cabinets are far more common than the PCB for this game, maybe it was withdrawn or only reached prototype stage.

Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Dark Seal 2

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Wizard Fire Census

There are 14,754 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,474 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,463 machines (6,895 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 10 known instances of this machine owned by Wizard Fire collectors who are active members. Of these, 10 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Wizard Fire boards sets.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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Technical

The game uses a custom Data East 68000 CPU plus a protection device. The board has four scrolling playfields and two sprite generators. It uses a HuC6280, a YM2151 plus two Oki M6295 ICs for sound.

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