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.

About as fun as Gun Fight with some minor improvements.

Inverse pong, and one of the earliest shoot-em-ups. Awesome backdrop "technology" that really adds to the experience.

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.

Respectable for being one of the earliest shooting games, but like Pong and Breakout, suffers from being too simplistic and lacking in content.