Title: Gun Fight

Manufacturer: Midway

Year: 1975

Hardware:

Main Processor: 8080 (2 MHz)

Sound Hardware: Unknown

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Description

Two-player cowboy shoot out.

This was the first arcade video game to have a processor, it was an 8080 cpu running at 2 MHz. And this is where the historic importance of this game ends, since it was not an original concept, but just a conversion of a japanese arcade game manufactured by Taito. The Taito original game did not have a cpu, it only had the industry standard solid-state circuits.
Regarding the Taito original game, I suspect it to be Western Gun.

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Emulation Status

Emulator: MAME

Playable: Yes

Sound: No

In MAME official documentation this game is reported as having sound if samples are provided separately. At the time of this writing, no MAME "compatible" sound samples appear to be publicly available, therefore, this game is listed here as having no sound (since I am unable to test the sound).

Benchmark system: Intel Celeron - 433 MHz; S3 GX2 4 Mb AGP Videocard; Soundblaster 16; Win98; MAMEi686 v0.36RC2

Benchmark results: 60 fps with tripple buffer on, vsync off, no frameskip; full screen interlaced mode

Note: Currently MAME does not simulate the yellow overlay, therefore the screenshots below are different from the actual game. The overlay simulation should be appearing in MAME soon

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Screenshots

Screenshots from MAME emulator

gunfight-01.png (520 bytes) gunfight-02.png (540 bytes)

gunfight-03.png (566 bytes) gunfight-04.png (621 bytes)

gunfight-05.png (802 bytes) gunfight-06.png (835 bytes)


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