Air Inferno

Air Inferno is a 1990 flight simulation arcade video game developed and released by Taito, in Japan, Europe and North America.[7] A spin-off from Taito's Landing series, Air Inferno is an aerial firefighting simulation that involves piloting a helicopter on various rescue missions, shooting a fire extinguisher to extinguish flames while rescuing civilians.[8][9]

Air Inferno
Air Inferno arcade flyer.
Developer(s)Taito
Publisher(s)Taito
Designer(s)Tsukasa Fujita
Toshiaki Tsukano[1]
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
Genre(s)Flight simulator
Mode(s)Single-player video game,
Arcade systemTaito Air System

Like its predecessor Top Landing (1988), Air Inferno used flat-shaded, 3D polygon graphics. Both games ran on the Taito Air System hardware, which used 68000 (12 MHz) and Z80 (4 MHz) microprocessors as CPU and a TMS320C25[10] (24 MHz) digital signal processor as GPU.[11] The game comes in two types of arcade cabinets,[4] a larger deluxe motion simulator cockpit cabinet[12][4] and a smaller standard cockpit cabinet.[4]

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Air Inferno on their August 1, 1990 issue as being the most-successful upright arcade/cockpit unit of the month.[13]

The arcade game received positive reviews from critics. Sinclair User magazine it an 89% score, praising the "fab" 3D graphics, "realistic controls" and for being "something very different compared to the usual arcade machine."[8] Julian Rignall rated the game 88% in Computer and Video Games magazine.[9] Nick Kelly rated it 85% in CU Amiga.[3] David Wilson rated it four out of five in Zero magazine,[14] and 80% in Your Sinclair.[15]

See also

References
  1. Air Inferno at Arcade History
  2. "Air Inferno". Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  3. Kelly, Nick (26 July 1990). "Arcades: Air Inferno". CU Amiga. No. 6 (August 1990). United Kingdom: EMAP. pp. 82–3.
  4. "Taito Air Inferno Rescue Helicopters To Trade". RePlay. Vol. 15, no. 12. September 1990. p. 23.
  5. "Machine Catalog: Video Games". RePlay. Vol. 16, no. 1. October 1990. pp. 78–86.
  6. Akagi, Masumi (October 13, 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971–2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971–2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. pp. 136–7. ISBN 978-4990251215.
  7. Air Inferno at the Killer List of Videogames
  8. "Coin Ops". Sinclair User. No. 105 (November 1990). United Kingdom: EMAP. October 1990. pp. 54–5.
  9. Rignall, Julian (16 November 1990). "Arcade Action". Computer and Video Games. No. 109 (December 1990). pp. 152–3, 156, 158.
  10. "System 16 - Taito Air System Hardware (Taito)". www.system16.com. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  11. "MAME | SRC/Mame/Drivers/Taitoair.c". Archived from the original on 2014-10-03. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
  12. "Looking At Taito's history As They Turn 60". Arcade Heroes. 2013-08-27. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  13. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - アップライト, コックピット型TVゲーム機 (Upright/Cockpit Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 385. Amusement Press, Inc. 1 August 1990. p. 29.
  14. Wilson, David (December 1990). "Dosh Eaters". Zero. No. 14. pp. 85–6.
  15. Wilson, David (1 November 1990). "Slots of Fun". Your Sinclair. No. 60 (December 1990). United Kingdom: Future plc. pp. 70–1.


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