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Wild Gunman
Wild Gunman is a light gun shooter game developed and published by Nintendo. Based on a 1974 electro-mechanical arcade game by Gunpei Yokoi, it was adapted to a video game for the Famicom console in Japan in 1984. In North America, it was released in 1985 as a launch game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) with the Zapper light gun.
The game from 1974 was formerly known as Gun Fight.
Wild Gunman is one of Nintendo's electro-mechanical (EM) arcade games created by Gunpei Yokoi and released in 1974. It consists of a light gun connected to a 16 mm projection screen. Full-motion video footage of an American Wild West gunslinger is projected onto the screen. When this enemy character's eyes flash, the player draws and fires the gun. If the player is fast enough, the projection changes to that of the shot gunman falling down; otherwise it shows the gunman drawing and firing his gun.
Regardless of their success, the player continues to face off against other gunslinger opponents, of which there are five in total.
Should the player draw their gun prematurely, a "foul" light turns on and the player's input is ignored until the next duel begins, rendering the current duel unwinnable.
Wild Gunman was released in North America by Sega in 1976. The game's footage was filmed with local, uncredited extras on location around Kyoto and at the Nara Dreamland amusement park.
A recreation of the arcade game was made by Canadian arcade repairman and Youtuber Callan Brown, who plans to showcase it to the public at the 2026 Ontario PinFest convention from May 30 to May 31 with other Wild Gunman-based merchandise from Nintendo.
Nintendo adapted the electro-mechanical game into a video game, replacing filmed footage with cartoon-style sprites.
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Wild Gunman
Wild Gunman is a light gun shooter game developed and published by Nintendo. Based on a 1974 electro-mechanical arcade game by Gunpei Yokoi, it was adapted to a video game for the Famicom console in Japan in 1984. In North America, it was released in 1985 as a launch game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) with the Zapper light gun.
The game from 1974 was formerly known as Gun Fight.
Wild Gunman is one of Nintendo's electro-mechanical (EM) arcade games created by Gunpei Yokoi and released in 1974. It consists of a light gun connected to a 16 mm projection screen. Full-motion video footage of an American Wild West gunslinger is projected onto the screen. When this enemy character's eyes flash, the player draws and fires the gun. If the player is fast enough, the projection changes to that of the shot gunman falling down; otherwise it shows the gunman drawing and firing his gun.
Regardless of their success, the player continues to face off against other gunslinger opponents, of which there are five in total.
Should the player draw their gun prematurely, a "foul" light turns on and the player's input is ignored until the next duel begins, rendering the current duel unwinnable.
Wild Gunman was released in North America by Sega in 1976. The game's footage was filmed with local, uncredited extras on location around Kyoto and at the Nara Dreamland amusement park.
A recreation of the arcade game was made by Canadian arcade repairman and Youtuber Callan Brown, who plans to showcase it to the public at the 2026 Ontario PinFest convention from May 30 to May 31 with other Wild Gunman-based merchandise from Nintendo.
Nintendo adapted the electro-mechanical game into a video game, replacing filmed footage with cartoon-style sprites.