Towering Inferno (video game)

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Towering Inferno
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Developer(s) US Games
Publisher(s) US Games
Designer(s) Tom Sloper and Paul Newell
Platforms Atari 2600
Release date(s)
    Genre(s) Action

    Towering Inferno is a video game released by US Games for the Atari 2600 in 1982. The player controls a fireman going through a burning skyscraper to save victims and put out the fires.

    Gameplay

    On each floor of the building, the player must put out the flames and reach the panel that opens the doors to get back out. While doing so, there is a meter at the top showing how many people are on that floor. The longer it takes a player to open the doors and get out, the more the meter decreases. The object is to work as fast as you can while avoiding and putting out flames to open the doors and escape with the most people remaining on the meter. The game can be played by one or two players.

    Reception

    Towering Inferno was reviewed in Video magazine in its "Arcade Alley" column where it was described as "an above-average, enjoyable cartridge [that] is a refreshing change from shoot-shoot-shoot". Reviewers emphasized the non-violent nature of the game, noting that it "achieves a respectable level of excitement without having a shot fired in anger", however they also cautioned readers that the game "may be a little too patterned and repetitive for some".[1]:40

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