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Gallery shooter

Game genre concept

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A type of shooter where player control is limited to a reticle across a screen or a light gun where any movement is out of player's control. Generally mimics shooting gallery games found in carnivals.

Notable people involved: Bruce Carver, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Gunpei Yokoi, Hirokazu Tanaka and Michael Bews

Alternate names: Shooting gallery
Name variations: light gun shooter

See also: rail shooter (a very similar genre)

Popular tags

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Parent group

Shooter

Games by year

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The first Gallery shooter video game was released on April 1973.

Infogrames, Loriciel, American Laser Games and Nintendo published most of these games.

Platforms

Arcade21
ZX Spectrum20
Amstrad CPC17
BBC15
Amiga12
3DO10
MS-DOS9
C649
Atari 26007
Atari ST7
MSX5
NES4
PS3
TRS-803
Atari 400/8003
Apple II E3
Thomson3
C16/Plus42
Wii2
ZX 812
Mac OS Classic2
Odyssey22
GBA2
Electron2
SNES1
Enterprise1
Master System1
Linux1
CD-I1
Atari 78001

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