Editing Fire (Game & Watch)

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'''''{{wp|List of Game & Watch games#Fire|Fire}}''''' (originally released in North America as '''''Fireman Fireman''''')<ref>{{cite|author=Phil Salvador|date=June 13, 2024|url=https://gamehistory.org/mego-time-out-commercial/|title=Is this the first Nintendo commercial?|publisher=Video Game History Foundation|archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627061609/https://gamehistory.org/mego-time-out-commercial/|accessdate=July 2, 2024}}</ref> is a [[Game & Watch]] game released as part of the Silver series on July 31, 1980, and later as part of the Wide Screen series on December 4, 1981. There are remakes of it in three games of the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]]: ''[[Game & Watch Gallery]]'', ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 3]]'', and ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 4]]''.

People jump out of a burning building and fall down to get rescued. The player, controlling two men carrying a life net, must bounce the people off the life net to get them to the ambulance on the other side of the screen. If the two men catch a person, the player earns a [[point]]; people who have been caught bounce and must be caught again. People fall at different speeds depending on where they are. As time passes, more people jump from the burning building, and they eventually fall faster. If the two men miss one of the falling people, the person gets injured and runs away, and the player receives a miss. If the player reaches 200 and 500 points, any misses they have are removed, and the people freeze to make it easy to get them before they continue falling. The player receives a [[Game Over]] when they have three misses. In Game B, people jump out from two floors of the burning building, making the game harder.

[[File:MarioBrosGWG.png|thumb|The Modern version of ''Fire'' from ''Game & Watch Gallery'']]

[[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] attempt to catch [[Toad (species)|Toad]]s, [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]]s, and [[Donkey Kong Jr.|Donkey Kong Jrs.]] after they jump out the window of [[Princess Peach]]'s burning [[Peach's Castle|castle]]. The catch is that different characters fall at different speeds: Toads bounce the highest, while Donkey Kong Jrs. bounce the lowest. [[Yoshi's Egg|Yoshi Egg]]s also appear and contain either a [[Bob-omb]] or a [[3-Up Moon|Moon]] (a [[Super Star]] in the first game); the eggs break open when they are caught or hit the ground. The player receives two points for catching an egg. If a Bob-omb reaches the carriage, everyone, including the Mario Bros., runs away as the carriage explodes, and the player gets a miss. If the Mario Bros. catch a Moon, the player receives five points. At 200, 500, and 700 points, Peach appears and blows a kiss, sending out a [[1 UP Heart|heart]] for Mario or Luigi to catch to remove a miss. Music is also featured in this version, with the tempo changing depending on the speed of the game. In the ''Game & Watch Gallery 4'' version, the time of day changes every 200 points collected.

If the player selects this game in ''Game & Watch Gallery 4'' yet does not start playing it, a humorous sequence plays. In particular, Mario and Luigi catch a Toad sent flying to the left and a Yoshi sent flying to the right, only to narrowly stop when discovering their next "rescue" was in fact a Bob-omb, which detonates inches from them, and are then forced to flee as a dozen Bob-ombs are raining down from the sky.

 

*{{button|gb|pad}} (left and right): Move

*{{button|gb|b}}: Move left

*{{button|gb|a}}: Move right

===''Game & Watch Gallery 4''===

*{{button|gba|padleftright}}: Move

*{{button|gba|b}}: Move left

*{{button|gba|a}}: Move right

G&WG Unused alarm characters.gif|The Alarm Fireman (an alarm indicator for original releases of ''Fire'') alongside other unused alarm character sprites for ''Game & Watch Gallery''

G&WG_Modern_Fire_Yoshi_Egg.png|[[Yoshi's Egg|Yoshi Egg]]

G&WG4 Fire Donkey Kong Jr Sprite.png|Donkey Kong Jr.

G&WG4 Modern Fire 1UP Heart.png|1 UP Heart

G&WG4 Modern Fire 3UP Moon.png|[[3-Up Moon]]

G&WG4 Modern Fire Albatross.png|[[seagull|Albatross]]

G&WG4 Modern Fire Koopa Paratroopa.png|[[Koopa Paratroopa|Para Troopa]]

G&WG4 Modern Fire Peach.png|Peach

G&WG4 Modern Fire Toad.png|Toad

G&WG4 Modern Fire Yoshi Egg.png|Yoshi Egg

[[File:G&WG3 Fire.png|thumb|''Fire'' as it appears in ''Game & Watch Gallery 3'']]

*The port shown in ''Game & Watch Gallery 3'' is reversed. According to the game, ''Fire'' was originally supposed to ship as such, but a mistake was made during LCD production and the graphics were reversed.  

*The ''Game & Watch Gallery 3'' port of ''Fire'' uses the design of the original Silver series ''Fire'' with the points system of the Wide Screen series ''Fire''. In the original Silver version of ''Fire'', points were given only when an evacuee would reach the ambulance.  

*In ''Game & Watch Gallery 4''{{'}}s Modern version of ''Fire'', a [[Koopa Paratroopa|Para Troopa]] occasionally appears in the background during the day, while an [[seagull|albatross]] occasionally does so at sunset.

*The ''Game & Watch Gallery 4'' Modern version of ''Fire'' was apparently meant to be one of the games included in the canceled Game & Watch series of [[e-Reader]] cards.

*[http://web.archive.org/web/20190906184239/http://www.intheattic.co.uk/fire.htm The original Silver version of ''Fire'' info page on In the Attic, a website dedicated to classic videogames] (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine)

*[http://web.archive.org/web/20210613055159/http://www.intheattic.co.uk/fire1.htm The Wide Screen rerelease of ''Fire'' on In the Attic] (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine)

 

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[[Category:Game & Watch Gallery minigames]]

[[Category:Game & Watch Gallery 4 minigames]]