The earliest version of the game featured a flat board, where the new board is dome-shaped. This causes the ball bearings to roll into the players' bins more easily, but can cause the pucks to indefinitely rest at the edges of the board.

The two pucks are made of plastic and rest on a central metal ball bearing. The bearing can spin and roll within the plastic mould allowing greater puck movement and responsiveness to hits. One of the pucks is shaped like a triangle and the other is star-shaped.

In the early '90s, the first television commercial that ran showed two boys playing Crossfire under a orange, sunny sky. Crossfire has achieved a small cult following mostly centered around the next commercial (which was memorable) and jingle that ran later in the same decade.

The commercial features two young boys "sometime in the future" amidst smoke, lightning strikes, and a roaring crowd being introduced to and playing the game, ultimately resulting in the loser being spun off a life-sized Crossfire arena into oblivion.

Unlike the jingle of the first commercial, the jingle of the second one was highly stylized and featured fewer lyrics: "Crossfire... you'll get caught up in the... Crossfire" repeated, eventually ending with a dramatic yelling of the game's namesake (CROSSFIYAAAAAH!) and a deep grunt.

The first commercial had "Crossfire...you got to win it in the fire, fire...Crossfire" and "the action's getting hotter, really heating up, first you got to win it before you can stop".