Sheriff (シェリフ) is an arcade game by Nintendo R&D1; in 1979. Some sources claim that Ikegami Tsushinki also did design work on Sheriff. It is the first original game by Nintendo and is one of the earliest Western-style video games ever developed. The player controls a county sheriff who must defend the town from bandits.
Sheriff has unique controls for shooting and moving around the screen. The shooting joystick consists of a switch that can be po...
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Sheriff (シェリフ) is an arcade game by Nintendo R&D1; in 1979. Some sources claim that Ikegami Tsushinki also did design work on Sheriff. It is the first original game by Nintendo and is one of the earliest Western-style video games ever developed. The player controls a county sheriff who must defend the town from bandits.
Sheriff has unique controls for shooting and moving around the screen. The shooting joystick consists of a switch that can be pointed into eight different directions. The player must indicate a direction, then press the switch in order to shoot. The movement joystick is also set so that a considerable time delay exists before the new direction takes effect on screen. These controls allow the sheriff to walk in one direction while shooting in another.
The entire screen is part of the game field, except for the score indication on the top of the screen. 16 bandits surround the outer rim, marked by a dotted barricade. Bullets from either the sheriff or the bandits can...
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