Fire Barrel

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Fire Barrel

Title screen

Developer:	Irem
Music:	Rikei Hirashima
Release date:	Arcade: 1993
Previous game:	R-Type Leo
Next game:	Kaitei Daisenso (In the Hunt)

Fire Barrel is a vertical scrolling shooter developed and published by Irem in 1993. It was released overseas under the name Air Assault.

Gameplay Overview

Controls

Fire Barrel is a 2 button game with 8 stages. Finishing every stage will start the 2nd loop.

• A button: Fires the player's main weapon.
• B button: Releases a bomb which erases enemy bullets.

Items

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Weapon powerups max out at level 4. Excess items give a 5,000 point bonus, with the exception of missile and homing items.

	Infinite Vulcan Initial shot, gains more spread with power.
	Wing Shot 3-way shot, gains more width with power.
	Graviton Laser Forward firing laser, gains more strength with power.
	Multiway Grenade Multidirectional shot, gains more range with power.
	Missile Set of high power missiles.
	Homing Homing missiles.
	Max Maxes out the player's weapon. Only appears after dying a certain amount of times.
	Bomb Adds a bomb to the player's stock, can hold up to 10 bombs.
	Medal Score item, worth either 1,000 or 3,000 points.

Extra Lives

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On default settings, extra lives are obtained at 200,000 points and then every 300,000 points.

Loops

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Fire Barrel ends at the 3rd loop. The player retains all Power Ups. With lots of practice and strategies, a 3-ALL clear can be done on 1 credit.

Strategy

WIP

Scoring

Clear Bonus

After clearing a loop the player is granted 100,000 points for each life remaining. For some reason, this bonus is granted twice when using the player 2 side. This makes 2P objectively better than 1P for scoring purposes.

Milking

Many enemies spawn reinforcements when left alive long enough. Notable examples are the bosses of stages 4 and 5 and other minor enemies.