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Gun Smoke

Description

Controlling a cowboy in the Wild West you have to make your way through hostile cowboys of each level. Shooting barrels reveals power-ups such as boots, rifles and bullets. Each level has a weapon specialist end boss, like winchester, knives, darts and boomerangs.

Gun Smoke was produced by Capcom in 1985.

Capcom released 229 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984. Capcom was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Capcom during the time period Gun Smoke was produced include: 1942, HiGeMaru - Pirate Ship, Son Son, Vulgus, Pirate Ship HigeMaru, Commando, 1942 (PlayChoice), Makaimura, Exed Exes, and Ghosts 'n Goblins

Specs

Name	Gun Smoke
Developer	Capcom (Japan)
Year	1985
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8042
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Capcom Classic
Game Specific	Gun Smoke Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Gun Smoke Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 3 - Fire LeftFire StraightFire Right
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Instructions	Gun Smoke Instructions Image
Control Panel	Gun Smoke Control Panel Image
PCB	Gun Smoke PCB Image

Video Clips

ARCADE Gun.Smoke ROUND 1

Gun Smoke by Ivan Paduano

Game Play

Combining the fire buttons will alter the direction to a total of six different shooting directions.

Gun Smoke KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.54 (8 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.73

Overall Like	4.13
Fun (Social)	2.88
Fun (Solo)	3.63
Collector Desire	3.38

Technical Rating: 3.33

Gameplay	3.50
Graphics	3.63
Originality	3.25
Sound/Music	2.63

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Trivia

Based on the famous TV series of the same name.

Miscellaneous

Licenced to Romstar for US manufacture and distribution.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Gun Smoke Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 121 known instances of this machine owned by Gun Smoke collectors who are active members. Of these, 19 of them are original dedicated machines. 19 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 83 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 5 active VAPS members with a Gun Smoke machines for sale. There are 8 active VAPS members with a Gun Smoke circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 6 active VAPS members currently looking for Gun Smoke. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Gun Smoke boards sets.

This game ranks a 32 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 10 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Manuals

Gun Smoke DIP Switch Settings - Gun Smoke Manual — **Gun Smoke DIP Switch Settings**
(2 pages, 109 kB File)

Instruction Manual - Gun Smoke Manual — **Instruction Manual**
(16 pages, 2.6 MB File)

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