Fire Truck

Here's another piece of coin-op gold from the classic days of arcades: Fire Truck! This was pure video game goodness. The game was simple. You drive your fire truck around town putting out fires and avoiding things in the road like parked cars and oil spills. Simple enough! Here's the brilliance of the game...the cabinet of the game was designed for two people. One player sat down in front of the screen and drove the front end of the truck, and the second player stood in the back and used a different steering wheel to drive the back end of your hook-n-ladder.
How great of an idea was that!?! You'd have to work together as a team, because if the front of your truck took a curve wide you had to make sure the back of your truck also took the curve wide! You can see from the graphics that this was some serious videogaming. All the tension and peril of real firefighting was captured in glorious black and white in this classic video game. There's some game out now where you point a fake hose at the screen and try and put out fires. That's nothing compared to Fire Truck! That game had it all!

I haven't seen one of these around in many years. The last time I played it was at a classic video game exhibit at the Maryland Science Center. Anyone know where there's a Fire Truck waiting for a roll of my quarters!?