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| Parker Brothers
Wildfire Pinball (1979, LED, 6 AA Batteries, Model# 3400) U. S. Patent # 4,334,679 Invented by: Bob Doyle Production toy version designed and programmed by: Garry Kitchen & Steven Kitchen @ Wickstead Design Associates View Manual / Download Simulation (Link to external site- See info below:) |
LED based handheld pinball game. Originally
priced at $44.96 according to the price tag on my box. To download the game simulation, go to www.irpinball.org, click on 'Downloads' then 'Computer Games and Toys' and then 'Wildfire'. You will also need to download and install the Virtual Pinball engine from 'Essential Files' on the Downloads page. |
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Scott Traylor recently interviewed Bob and Holly Doyle
about their days of inventing handheld games (Wildfire and Merlin are
their games), and he got some really nice pictures of the early handmade
prototypes of both. These two pictures are two different stages of the
development of the game: |
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