Gun Fight
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Gun Fight, known as Western Gun[lower-alpha 1] in Japan[3][1] and Europe,[4] is a 1975 multidirectional shooter arcade game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado,[5] and released by Taito in Japan[3] and Europe[4] and by Midway in North America.[3][5] Based around two Old West cowboys armed with revolvers and squaring off in a duel, it was the first video game to depict human-to-human combat.[6] The Midway version was also the first video game to use a microprocessor instead of TTL.[6][7] The game's concept was adapted from Sega's 1969 arcade electro-mechanical game Gun Fight.
Gun Fight | |
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Developer(s) | Taito |
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Designer(s) | Tomohiro Nishikado Dave Nutting (US) |
Programmer(s) | Tom McHugh (US) |
Platform(s) | Arcade, Astrocade, Atari 8-bit |
Release | Arcade Astrocade
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Genre(s) | Multidirectional shooter |
Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Arcade system | Taito Discrete Logic Midway 8080 (US) |
The game was a global commercial success. In Japan, Western Gun was among the top ten highest-grossing arcade video games of 1976. In the United States, Gun Fight sold 8,600 arcade cabinets and was the third highest-grossing arcade game of 1975, second highest-grossing arcade game of 1976 and fifth highest arcade game of 1977.
It was ported to the Bally Astrocade video game console[8] as a built-in game[9] in 1977[10] and later the Atari 8-bit family.[11]