Gallery shooter
Game genre concept
184
games
43platforms
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
OCS 1989
SPC 1987
PS1 1996-11-24
GBA 2005-11-01
PS1 2000-12-15
BBC 1985-09
ARCD 1978-02
3DO 1993
SWTC 2018-04-17
AGA 1994
BBC 1984-11-11
MSX 1984-06
See also: rail shooter (a very similar genre)
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Games by year
The first Gallery shooter video game was released on April 1973.
Infogrames, Loriciel, American Laser Games and Nintendo published most of these games.