Topic: Wild Gunman Makes a Return in Honor of Back to the Future

[SurfingPikachu]

Great Scott! Can you beat Marty’s score?

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/41357/wild-gunman-makes-a-return-in-honor-of-back-to-the-future

In honor of Back to the Future Day, Nintendo has released Wild Gunman on the European Wii U Virtual Console. You might remember this as the game Marty McFly destroys when he travels to the distant and techno-heavy future of 2015 in Back to the Future Part II.

In place of the NES Zapper gun, players can use the Wii remote to play this “baby’s toy”.

The game originally released on October 18, 1985 in America, giving Marty a little over a week to master the game before his time traveling adventures. On top of that, the game was never made into an arcade version, so Marty has a lot of explaining to do.

[Mop it up]

Huh, I thought Wild Gunman was an arcade game, not that I'm any expert. What was seen in the movie seemed a little different than what was in the NES game, though I barely played it.

[ClexYoshi]

almost every time my cousin gets drunk, he starts trying to put Wild Gunman into his NES and starts talking about it and such.


Fun fact; the arcade version seen in the movie and the NES were not the first versions of Wild Gunman, as there was a little take-home and battery powered plastic dummy with a LED sensor in it's chest. it's lets were jointed and would buckle over when shot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYfQAbOGx30

this was later put as a micro-game into WarioWare.

Actually, even earlier than that was a FMV version with an actual actor that was developed in 1974 by none-other than Gunpei Yokoi as well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmdOHmnbYHw

[Mythtendo]

Actually Clex, the arcade version (seen in the movie) IS the original version as it was released i 1974.

[SurfingPikachu]

Actually Clex, the arcade version (seen in the movie) IS the original version as it was released i 1974.

Nope, the one seen in the movie is the 1985 NES version that was made into an arcade game specifically for Back to the Future. The earlier 1974 version was a different type of game that utilized projected movies of real actors.