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Desert Fox Desert Fox - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

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Description

A WWII air versus land battle game that is set in the desert. Players control a plane and fire with a machine gun at enemy tanks, trucks, weapons, carriers and personnel on the ground.

Desert Fox was produced by Milwaukee Coin Industries, Ltd. (MCI) in 1976.

Milwaukee Coin Industries, Ltd. (MCI) released 3 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1970.

Other machines made by Milwaukee Coin Industries, Ltd. (MCI) during the time period Desert Fox was produced include: U-Boat, and Ace

Desert Fox - Cabinet - Machine
Cabinet
(Contributed by: Richard Bragg)

Specs

Name Desert Fox
Developer Milwaukee Coin Industries, Ltd. (MCI)
Year 1976
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 7561
Class Wide Release
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way with button [Fire]
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard
Control Panel Desert Fox Control Panel Image
Side Art Desert Fox Side Art Image

Game Play

As you fly the Allied plane, you shoot at actual photographs of German Africa Corp tanks, soldiers and equipment. If you hit a picture you would register a hit. It is a timed game. You have to accumulate a certain amount of points to continue.

Desert Fox KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Cabinet Information

Below the control panel, it says "Fly Against The Afrika Korps". On the sides of the caibinet are a profile of a man wearing an officer's hat.

Miscellaneous

The cabinet and screen have no copyright date.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Desert Fox Census

There are 14,716 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,455 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,291 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Scarce - There are 4 known instances of this machine owned by Desert Fox collectors who are active members. Of these, 4 of them are original dedicated machines.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 1 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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