Hogan's Alley (video game)
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Hogan's Alley[lower-alpha 1] is a light gun shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo. It was released for the Family Computer in 1984 and then the arcade Nintendo VS. System and Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985. It was one of the first hit video games to use a light gun as an input device, along with Nintendo's Duck Hunt (1984). The game presents players with "cardboard cut-outs" of gangsters and innocent civilians. The player must shoot the gangs and spare the innocent people. It was a major arcade hit in the United States and Europe.
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Developer(s) | Nintendo R&D1 Intelligent Systems |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Director(s) | Shigeru Miyamoto[1] |
Designer(s) | Shigeru Miyamoto[1] |
Composer(s) | Hirokazu Tanaka |
Platform(s) | Famicom/NES Arcade |
Release | Famicom/NES Arcade |
Genre(s) | Light gun shooter |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Arcade system | Nintendo VS. System |
In real life, Hogan's Alley was a shooting range on the grounds of the Special Police School at Camp Perry, a training facility for the National Guard of the United States.[4]