Gotcha

$45.99
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$52.99
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$45.99

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Item Condition

Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original. Original inserts or paperwork shown in the photos are included; display stands and other photography props are not. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

Most Zapper games ask you to stand still and shoot. Gotcha! The Sport! makes you do two jobs at once: the light gun in one hand to fire paint, and the controller in the other to scroll the field left and right as you push forward. That unusual setup is the whole personality of LJN's 1987 paintball game, developed by Atlus and licensed from the 1985 Anthony Edwards comedy Gotcha!, keeping the film's paintball contest and leaving its spy plot behind.

The goal is classic capture the flag. Work across a scrolling field, snatch the enemy flag from the far right side and carry it back to your base on the left, tagging opposing players before they tag you. Ammunition runs low fast, so you shoot supply boxes tucked into the scenery or carried by enemies to restock, and the clock is always running. Unlike most light gun games of its day, the other team fires back, and you can lose by getting hit. The battle moves through the Woods, the Warehouse District and the Snow Fields, then loops back around with quicker, sharper opponents on every lap.

LJN promoted the game alongside its Entertech line of toy paintball and water guns, and it captures that late-80s backyard-warfare energy perfectly. For Zapper fans it is an unusual entry in the NES light gun library, a game designed around working the Zapper and the controller together, and a fun reminder of the moment when paintball was the hot new weekend sport.

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