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Fire Truck, Atari’s cooperative driving game from 1978, was built on dual steering controls, analog sound, and black-and-white top-down visuals. This episode covers how it was developed by Wendi Allen and John Ray, the custom cabinet hardware behind it, the teamwork-driven gameplay, expert scoring strategies, and how it became one of the earliest co-op arcade games ever made.
Fire Truck, Atari’s cooperative driving game from 1978, was built on dual steering controls, analog sound, and black-and-white top-down visuals. This episode covers how it was developed by Wendi Allen and John Ray, the custom cabinet hardware behind it, the teamwork-driven gameplay, expert scoring strategies, and how it became one of the earliest co-op arcade games ever made.