![]() ![]() Players wait for opposing gunslingers to telegraph their draw with a twitch. You think shooting ducks and clay pigeons in Duck Hunt is manly? Try dueling the best in the west in Wild Gunman, the NES lightgun game that recreates sweaty-palmed, white knuckle, poop your pants fast draw showdowns. If this educational title taught us one thing, it’s that traveling to the West was tough, and if you did it, you were probably going to die. For a game ripe with nostalgia from our earliest years of gaming you’d think we’d have beaten it at least once, but that’s not the case. There isn’t much gunplay in this early PC classic, but there was a lot of broken wheels, hunting, drowned oxen, dysentery, siblings named ASS, snake bites, river fording, and buffalo meat. Here’s a history of gaming's dusty trails starting with the dreary Oregon Trail leading up to Red Dead Redemption. Westerns have been sprinkled throughout video game history in a variety of forms, from bullet-riddled shooters to point and click adventures. Gun-toting bad asses and video games go together like a horse and carriage - as long as that carriage is on fire and being pursued by murderous outlaws.
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