![]() The player characters used in the game represented avatars for the players, and would yell "Got me!" when one of them is shot. It was also the first known video game to feature game characters and fragments of story through its visual presentation, marking the beginning of cinematic elements in video games. Unlike later games, Western Gun has the main joystick on the right instead of the left. The game also introduced dual-stick controls, using two distinct joystick controls per player, with one eight-way joystick for moving the computerized cowboy around on the screen and the other for changing the shooting direction. It also introduced video game violence, being the first video game to depict human-to-human combat, and the first to depict a gun on screen. Western Gun was an early, on-foot, multi-directional shooter, that could be played in single-player or two-player. The game was included in GameSpy's "Hall of Fame" in 2002. Unlike in a real-life duel, however, both cowboys get numerous opportunities to duel in order to score points (one point per successful draw). Whoever shoots the other cowboy first wins the duel. The theme of the game involves two Old West cowboys armed with revolvers and squaring off in a duel. It was soon ported to the Bally Astrocade video game console as a built-in game in 1977 as well as several home computer platforms, and has been referred to as "the Halo of its day." It was also the first video game to use a microprocessor. Its success also opened the way for Japanese video games in the North American market. Following a flood of Pong clones, Gun Fight helped revitalize a declining arcade video game industry that was flooded with Pong clones. Gun Fight was a major video game hit for its time, selling more than 8,000 cabinets in the US. It was a historically significant game, and a success in the arcades. Gun Fight, known as Western Gun in Japan and Europe, is a 1975 arcade shooter game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released by Taito in Japan and Europe and by Midway Games in North America.
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