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Biplane
dogfight
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plane
1975
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year of release 1975
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companies Fun Games
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type game
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media arcade cabinet
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systems Arcade
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number of players 2 players (versus)
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https://web.archive.org/web/20230326152304/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=173 2023-03-26

Biplane seems to be the first game of a long serie: plane dogfights! A biplane duel where each plane must shotdown the other as many time possible.

Many games have been inspired by this one, including Spitfire for the Fairchild Channel F, or Combat for the Atari 2600, or the excellent Bi-plane for the Intellivision.

Jet Fighter by Atari, also released in 1975 in the arcades, is very similar to Bi-plane, but it's not clear which one inspired which...