Boot Hill is a shooter arcade game released by Midway in 1977. The game is a sequel to Western Gun (aka Gun Fight). It's a classic one or two-player western gunfight game. Each player uses a small joystick to move their cowboy up and down the play area, while a second, much larger joystick is used to aim the pistol and shoot - this larger stick also has a trigger button. The game's single goal is simply to shoot the other player, who is situated on the opposite side of the game area. Wagons and cacti litter the middle of the play area, providing temporary cover from the opponent's gunfire. These obstacles slowly disintegrate as they are shot.
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The fact that one of the best games of 1977 is basically a Pong inversion with a pretty coat of paint should give you a pretty good idea of where video games were at.
For such an early entry in arcade history, Boot Hill is superb in presentation. With engaging "anti-Pong" gameplay, early uses of resource management and race-against-the-clock gameplay, this one-to-two player shootout is absolutely worth a play or two, even if a shocking lack of home ports make it a rarer find.
About as fun as Gun Fight with some minor improvements.
Respectable for being one of the earliest shooting games, but like Pong and Breakout, suffers from being too simplistic and lacking in content.
Inverse pong, and one of the earliest shoot-em-ups. Awesome backdrop "technology" that really adds to the experience.
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Parte 1 — Los 70: Los Orígenes
Juego 5: Boot Hill (1977)
Tosquísimo. Poco más que una copia del Pong!, aunque muy interesante visualmente. ¡Profundidad!, fingida, pero profundidad al fin y al cabo.
Parte 1 — Los 70: Los Orígenes
Juego 5: Boot Hill (1977)
Tosquísimo. Poco más que una copia del Pong!, aunque muy interesante visualmente. ¡Profundidad!, fingida, pero profundidad al fin y al cabo.