my car is a 97 pontiac sunfire 2.2 4 cyl has 208,000 mi just started having?

[coastalwind]

trouble starting takes a few tries one time it backfired what do u think it is no engine lights go on when driving it

 

[melsg5]

how many miles since a full tuneup

 

[buddney]

I had a sunbird that did the same thing-after a couple of months it got worse- turned out to be the coil pack -real pain in the butt to do -ran great after that...