Sheriff (シェリフ) also known as Bandido is an arcade game developed by Nintendo R&D1; in 1979, designed by Genyo Takeda with art by Shigeru Miyamoto. Some sources claim that Ikegami Tsushinki also did design work on Sheriff. It is one of the earliest Western-style video games developed (alongside Gun Fight). The player controls a county sheriff who must defend the town from bandits. It was a run and gun multi-directional shooter that featured dual-s...
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Sheriff (シェリフ) also known as Bandido is an arcade game developed by Nintendo R&D1; in 1979, designed by Genyo Takeda with art by Shigeru Miyamoto. Some sources claim that Ikegami Tsushinki also did design work on Sheriff. It is one of the earliest Western-style video games developed (alongside Gun Fight). The player controls a county sheriff who must defend the town from bandits. It was a run and gun multi-directional shooter that featured dual-stick controls, with one joystick for movement and the other for aiming, and a large number of enemies shooting many bullets, paving the way for later dual-stick shooters such as Robotron: 2084 (1982) and Geometry Wars (2003).
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...
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