Wild Gunman (Nintendo 197x)

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Just curious if anyone has seen/played/touched
an actual Wild Gunman from the 70s. It used two
film projectors and a slide machine. Very rare at this point.

The most-sought thing would be the film reels.
We have copies of the service manual.
 
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When "Goldmine" (the early incarnation of "Tilt" arcades) arcade opened in the Capital Mall here in Olympia, Washington in 1978, they had one of these machines. The machine was there for a couple of years at least and maybe as long as 4 years. I remember they (Goldmine/Tilt) did changeout the films in it a couple of times during it's stay on location.

I got a quick look in it one time. I thought the projector mechanism was an RCA 400 or RCA 1600 series. Did the machine service manual include the projector as part of it's service manual or was the projector covered in a seperate service manual provided by the projector manufacturer?
 
Whoa, that's what Wild Gunman originally looked like? That's crazy! Man, it would be really cool to try that game out.

On a side note, I wish they had made Vs. Wild Gunman. It's somehow in the Back to the Future movie in a PC-10 looking cabinet, but I'm guessing that was fake.
 
Whoa, that's what Wild Gunman originally looked like? That's crazy! Man, it would be really cool to try that game out.

On a side note, I wish they had made Vs. Wild Gunman. It's somehow in the Back to the Future movie in a PC-10 looking cabinet, but I'm guessing that was fake.

The game cabinet was made specifically for the movie to set up the storyline for the third back to the future. But yeah, its also just a pc-10 game in real life.
 
On a side note, I wish they had made Vs. Wild Gunman. It's somehow in the Back to the Future movie in a PC-10 looking cabinet, but I'm guessing that was fake.

Mike Oehlerich claims to own a Vs. Wild Gunman on VAPS. I asked him once if he could get the boards out of his warehouse, he said he'd think about it the next time he was there.
http://www.arcade-museum.com/members/member_detail.php?member_id=388632

Perhaps he's confusing it with a PC-10 Wild Gunman. Otherwise, what he has is exceedingly rare.
 
Just curious if anyone has seen/played/touched
an actual Wild Gunman from the 70s. It used two
film projectors and a slide machine. Very rare at this point.

The most-sought thing would be the film reels.
We have copies of the service manual.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxwikshonsk
There's a comment on this Youtube auction here that one was found at auction 6 months ago. Partial cabinet. "Shainito" apparently followed it up.

I assume it's this one, although I could be wrong:
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?p=807932#post807932
(posted 6 months ago, partial cabinet)

Only cabinet I've ever seen pictured other than "Jimmy" in Switzerland:
http://www.jimmys-partyservice.ch/pages/content.asp?article=130
 
Yes, I am the guy who bought one at auction. It does not have the canopy, but after studying the pics I have seen, it seems pretty simple to replicate. It is partially working, but it is buried in storage now, and I wont be taking it out until I get a new building.It is complete
 
Whoa, that's what Wild Gunman originally looked like? That's crazy! Man, it would be really cool to try that game out.

On a side note, I wish they had made Vs. Wild Gunman. It's somehow in the Back to the Future movie in a PC-10 looking cabinet, but I'm guessing that was fake.

I was reading and according to the DVD, the cabinet was custom. But if that were true, why would it still have the old style DK coin mechs? I think all they really did was take a PC10 DK conversion cabinet and made a custom marquee. What do you think?

BTW, that marquee is frickin awesome looking.

On the DVD commentary of Back to the Future Part II, Bob Gale stated that the arcade cabinet used in the movie was made specifically for the movie, as Nintendo had not released a dedicated Wild Gunman machine into arcades.




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