Wild Gunman is a cornerstone of Nintendo history. Created by legendary Game Boy designer Gunpei Yokoi, this arcade machine used film reels to let you play out Wild West gun battles against live-action outlaws. The game would eventually be recreated as a traditional, pixel art light gun game for NES, and would be referenced in numerous future Nintendo products, but the original has effectively been lost to time. Until now, that is, as an arcade collector has just created the closest thing you're going to find to the real thing.
That collector is Callan Brown, who goes by 74XX Arcade Repair, and who's just released an extensive YouTube video explaining how he's gone about recreating Wild Gunman (thanks, Time Extension). "This is not quite a replica," Brown warns, but "rather a reimagining of the Wild Gunman '74 experience with modern hardware."
