Wild Gunman [5 Screw]
Wild Gunman [5 Screw]
Wild Gunman [5 Screw]
Wild Gunman [5 Screw]
Wild Gunman [5 Screw]
Wild Gunman [5 Screw]

Wild Gunman [5 Screw]

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Wild Gunman is one of those wonderfully strange pieces of Nintendo history that predates the NES itself. It began in 1974 as an electro-mechanical arcade game designed by Gunpei Yokoi, in which players fired a light gun at filmed footage of a Wild West gunslinger projected on a screen. Nintendo brought it to the Famicom in 1984 and to the NES on the console's North American launch day in October 1985, built around the NES Zapper, which shipped in its original gray before the orange version arrived in 1989.

The premise is as pure as it gets. A gunslinger appears on screen and stares you down, and the moment he goes for his gun you had better be faster. Draw too slowly and you are done. Game A pits you against a single outlaw, Game B against two at once, and Game C pits you against a whole gang in a saloon. It is reflex gaming stripped to its essence, a mechanic that hooks you in seconds and keeps you chasing a faster reaction time for far longer than you would expect. There is a wonderful tension in the split second between the gunfighter's twitch and your finger on the trigger.

The five-screw version named in the title is a piece of the system's production history. Nintendo's first NES cartridges were assembled in a five-screw shell before the company moved to a simpler three-screw design later in the decade, so the five-screw build belongs to the console's early years in North America.

Wild Gunman also carries a pop culture footnote. In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly shows off his skills on an arcade version of the game in the 2015 of the film, only for the kids watching to dismiss it: "You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy." Nintendo returned the favor on Back to the Future Day, October 21, 2015, by releasing Wild Gunman on the Wii U Virtual Console.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1984
Publisher
Nintendo
Players
Single player
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Wild Gunman is a light gun shooter game created by Nintendo.

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