showing 7 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Gun | Taito | 1975 | The original Western Gun was the first open-world video game, the first action-adventure video game, and the first real-time tactical cover shooter. The two cowboy gunslingers had free-roaming movement across a single-screen open-world environment, littered with cacti and mountains that could be used as cover, while attempting to shoot each other. However, Western Gun had more primitive sprite graphics and animation, and used discrete-logic hardware (lacking a microprocessor).***[media=youtube]NrkySVIdeCI[/media]***Two players face off in a duel, Wild West style. Each having their revolvers loaded with 6 bullets, they can move around on their side of the screen and aim the gun up and down. Once one of the players is hit, or both run out of bullets, a new round begins. The player who scores the most hits within the time limit wins the game. In later rounds, an increasing number of cacti and a moving stagecoach serve as additional obstacles in the line of fire. [Daniel Saner]***First ever game to use a microprocessor, allowing basic AI for a computer opponent. | labelimagesubject |
| Gun Fight | Midway (Taito) | 1975 | Gun Fight was released in November 1975. It was also released as "Gun Fight [Cocktail Table] [Model 604]". Gun Fight was based on Taito's Western Gun, a game which used TTL-based discrete logic hardware. Midway's Dave Nutting adapted the Taito game to use an Intel 8080 microprocessor. Gun Fight was the first Japanese title to be licensed for release in America. It was also the first video game to incorporate a microprocessor, and the expanded processing capabilities allowed for graphics and game-play much more advanced than "Pong". Gun Fight was a pretty important video-games innovator. It was the first game ever to have 2 on-screen humans battling against each other at the same time, and as such it's the grandfather of the fighting games that take up most of the floorspace in modern arcades. It also introduced the idea of having separate controls for aiming and moving. More than 8000 units were produced in the US. A Gun Fight unit appears in the 1978 movie 'Dawn of the Dead'.***This Upright model was mostly red, but it was covered with painted cowboy side-art. There was no marquee at all, the game had its title printed on the monitor bezel, down towards the control panel. The machine overall had an attractive look. Game No. 597 Main CPU : Intel 8080 (@ 1.9968 Mhz) Screen orientation : Horizontal Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz Palette colors : 2 Players : 2 Control : 4-way joystick, 2-way analog stick Marquee bulbs: 1896, a 14 volt clear sphere bayonet type***Each player (2 people play at a time--there is no computer opponent) controls a gunfighter. Your left hand has a 4-way joystick which moves your gunfighter anywhere on your side of the screen. Your right hand has a gun grip which tilts up and down to aim your gunfighter's pistol and which has a trigger to fire. Your only goal is to shoot the other player, who is right across the screen from you; he will then fall down and say 'Got Me'. It isn't usually a straight shot, as there will always be cactuses, a moving stagecoach, or trees somewhere between the 2 players. (Another obstacle will be added for each hit scored.) Just shoot the other player for points. The game is time based, and not life based. The factory setting is for a 90-second game, but this is operator-adjustable down to as low as 60 seconds. | labelimagesubject |
| Boot Hill | Bally Midway | 1977 | Follow-up to Gun Fight which was released two years earlier, differs from its predecessor in that it allows the player to play against the CPU. The obstacles provide temporary protection but gradually disintegrate as they are hit. | labelimagesubject |
| The Tin Star | Taito | 1983 | labelimageminimize | |
| Bank Panic | Sega (Sanritsu) | 1984 | Bank on action when you lend a helping hand down at the town depository. As deputy of security, your job is to ward off villains and see to it the money bags are safely stashed. But keep your eyes on the busy entrance doors. Every now and then a gun-toting outlaw just might pop in to make an unauthorized withdrawal. Shoot him before he robs the teller and you'll be rewarded with bonus points. But pull the trigger on a law-abiding customer and you could set off a BANK PANIC! | labelimagesubject |
| Gun.Smoke | Capcom | 1985 | labelimageminimize | |
| Time Traveller | Sega | 1991 | [media=youtube]zMCU4k_XBqg[/media]***Travel to different time periods, meet interesting people, and kill them. (paradoxes?) Sega produced a billboard style marquee that prominently featured the word "Hologram". It could be placed above the unit, or not. The title of the game itself was placed on top of the unit between the stereo speakers and was less noticeable than the billboard. Thus, pictures of the unit with the optional billboard tend to suggest the game was actually titled "Hologram" while units without it were appropriately thought to be titled "Time Traveler" but mistaken for a different game than the supposed "Hologram" Part of the Hologram series (along with [game=#41697]Holosseum[/game]). | labelimagesubject |
