Wild Gunman (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
531A playthrough Nintendo's 1985 light gun game for the NES, Wild Gunman.
I play all three game modes in this video:
0:06 Game A: 1 Outlaw, ending at Round 61
16:48 Game B: 2 Outlaws, ending at Round 21
22:37 Game C: Gang, ending at Round 13
Wild Gunman is one of my favorite NES black box games. It's as simple and as addictive as Duck Hunt ever was, no matter who might mock it for being a baby's toy.
Remember the gun duel scene in Back to the Future Part III? I can't help but to think that Wild Gunman might have influenced that scene, especially after the arcade machine makes a cameo appearance at the Cafe 80s in Part II.
For as repetitive as it is, it makes for some surprisingly tense moments as you sit there waiting to lay into that loud Zapper trigger. As a kid I used to psych myself out trying to anticipate the shot, and usually I'd end up getting a game over because I'd keep jumping the gun.
Here's a trick that took me years to figure out, but it makes the game so much easier: focus all of your attention on the timer at the top of the screen, and hit the trigger the instant it changes from zero. It takes all of the ambiguity out of trying to read the timing of the bad guys' animations, and I find that when I do that I can usually win with no problem. The instant you lose your focus, though, good luck.
Wild Gunman is a fun test of reflexes gussied up as a gaudy western, it's a pop culture icon, and it's one of my favorite reminders of the NES's early days.
(And did you know that Wild Gunman is actually a video game adaptation of a mechanical gun game created by Gunpei Yokoi back in the mid 70s?)
FAIYAA! *pow*
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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