‘Wild Gunman’ was originally released in Japan back in 1974.
We have some remarkable news for fans of Nintendo’s early arcade history. A retro collector has recently come into possession of rare 16mm film reels of Nintendo’s early arcade coin-op Wild Gunman (not to be confused with the NES black box title of the same name), and has since gone to the incredible effort of producing a working version of the game, which he intends to show off at an event in Ontario, Canada.
Callan Brown (better known as 74XX Arcade Repair online) shared how he first came across the reels in a new video, entitled “WILD GUNMAN: Resurrecting Nintendo’s First Coin-Op on its 50th Anniversary.” In this video, he went over the background of the machine and its significance, as well as the incredible steps he took to not only get the film reels properly scanned but to develop his own recreation of the classic machine with modern technology.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
‘Wild Gunman’ was originally released in Japan back in 1974.
We have some remarkable news for fans of Nintendo’s early arcade history. A retro collector has recently come into possession of rare 16mm film reels of Nintendo’s early arcade coin-op Wild Gunman (not to be confused with the NES black box title of the same name), and has since gone to the incredible effort of producing a working version of the game, which he intends to show off at an event in Ontario, Canada.
Callan Brown (better known as 74XX Arcade Repair online) shared how he first came across the reels in a new video, entitled “WILD GUNMAN: Resurrecting Nintendo’s First Coin-Op on its 50th Anniversary.” In this video, he went over the background of the machine and its significance, as well as the incredible steps he took to not only get the film reels properly scanned but to develop his own recreation of the classic machine with modern technology.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
