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Wild Gunman Wild Gunman - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Wild Gunman - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

A Nintendo Playchoice 10 gun game where players must shoot the gunman before he shoots you.

Wild Gunman was produced by Nintendo in 1984.

Nintendo released 106 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1970. Nintendo was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Nintendo during the time period Wild Gunman was produced include: Mario Bros., Mario Bros. (PlayChoice), Tennis, Donkey Kong 3, Donkey Kong Junior, Excitebike (PlayChoice), Vs. UniSystem, Balloon Fight, Baseball, and Duck Hunt

Specs

Name Wild Gunman
Developer Nintendo (Japan)
Year 1984
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 10431
Class Wide Release
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class Nintendo PlayChoice
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 1
Game Play Single
Control Panel Layout Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls
  • Gun: Optical
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

You are in the old west against the best of the wild gunmen. Each player must shoot the gunman before he shoots you. Firing early (before their eyes blink) will get you disqualified. You can choose to take on on or two at a time. There is also a third game where you take on the gunman downtown.

Wild Gunman KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.16 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 3.00

Overall Like 3.00
Fun (Social) -1.00
Fun (Solo) 3.00
Collector Desire 4.00

Technical Rating: 3.33

Gameplay 4.00
Graphics 4.00
Originality 3.00
Sound/Music -1.00

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.

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Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

This game will not allow you to stand close to the monitor. You must be at least two feet in front of the game to shoot.

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Trivia

Wild Gunman is the video game that Marty McFly plays in the "Cafe 80's" in the Back to the Future films. If I don't miss my guess, Mad Dog is one of the bad guys in the video game. As in, Mad Dog Tannen that Marty meets up with in the old west.

Cabinet Information

Uses the Nintendo Playchoice 10 cabinet.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Wild Gunman 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).

Uncommon - There are 20 known instances of this machine owned by Wild Gunman collectors who are active members. Of these, 4 of them are original dedicated machines. 3 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 13 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Wild Gunman.

This game ranks a 4 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 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]

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