Game Summary
WWII Shoot-em-up
Additional Hardware Info (from Mame)
Z80
cpu
@ 4 Mhz
Z80
cpu
@ 3 Mhz
M68705
cpu
@ 1 Mhz
AY-8910
audio
@ 1 Mhz
AY-8910
audio
@ 1 Mhz
AY-8910
audio
@ 1 Mhz
AY-8910
audio
@ 1 Mhz
DAC
audio
Hardware Platform
Taito SJ System
Mame ROMs
frontlin, Front Line
Game Details
Front Line was a bottom-to-top scrolling shooter with an unusual POV. It had a WW2 theme. The player was a G.I. traversing a battlefield from north to south - the gameplay looks a lot like Ikari Warriors. Enemy infantry attacked, as did enemy tanks. The player could jump into light or heavy tanks as he came across them, and if your tank was hit, you had a chance to bail out before it blew. The objective at the end of increasingly difficult levels was to destroy a fort. The controls featured a spinning knob (as seen in Tin Star) which allowed the player to fire in one direction (in a 360 range) while moving in another.
