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Wild Gunman(JP) is a NES video game released in 1984 by Nintendo. It is the successor to the arcade game of the same name. The Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game made use of the NES Zapper that came packaged with the console and was primarily used in the NES smash hit Duck Hunt.
Gameplay[]
Game A - 1 Outlaw[]
In game A, the player has a showdown with one of five different outlaws. The outlaw walks to the middle of the screen and turns towards the player. After a moment, he'll yell "Fire!!", and at that moment the player will have to shoot. If done successfully, the gunman will yell "You won!!". Upon defeating the gunman, you'll be rewarded cash for your good deed. The quicker you shoot him, the more points you'll get. After you win, another gunman will come on the screen, and the act above will be repeated. The game ends when the player loses all three lifes.
Game B - 2 Outlaws[]
Game B is similar to Game A, except the showdown will involve two outlaws instead of one. They'll both yell "Fire!!", and the player will have to aim and shoot at both of them very quickly. In later rounds, they sometimes yell at different times, and the player has to be sure to only shoot the correct outlaw. If successful, then you'll be rewarded as you were before.
Game C - Gang[]
Game C is different from the previous two games. The player stands in front of a saloon with five openings where outlaws will pop out. You have 15 bullets to defeat 10 outlaws. After every 10 kills, your ammunition is replenished.
Characters[]
Note: None of the characters in the game have official names.
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Good Guy | A cowboy wearing black. His hat flies off upon being shot. |
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Good Guy | A cowboy with a brown vest. He falls over backwards upon being shot. |
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Thief | A man with a white sombrero. He falls over backwards upon being shot. |
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Good Guy | A tall, thin cowboy. His pants fall down upon being shot. |
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Good Guy | A typical cowboy. He falls over backwards upon being shot. |
Legacy[]
These characters appear in Duck Hunt's moveset as his down special as well as his final smash. See Wild Gunman (attack) and NES Zapper Posse for more details.
Wild Gunman became particularly famous after its appearance in the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II, in which Marty McFly, after having traveled from 1985 to 2015, inside a 1980s nostalgia bar, finds that two kids have successfully restored a VS. System version of the game (which was never known to exist), and demonstrates the gameplay by skillfully playing a round, at which point the kids lose interest in the machine due to hands being involved (in 2015, this is depicted as being considered a symptom of the game being a childish toy). It should be noted that the film shows extremely smooth and cartoony animations and graphics, which the original game did not have the hardware potential for. On 21 October, 2015, the day in which Marty arrives in 2015 in the film, Nintendo released the game for the Wii U Virtual Console as part of the Back to the Future Day celebrations.
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External links[]
- Wild Gunman at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Wild Gunman at GameFAQs
- Wild Gunman at MobyGames
