Gumshoe (video game)

Gumshoe
North American box art
Developer(s)Nintendo R&D1
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Yoshio Sakamoto
Satoru Okada
Producer(s)Gunpei Yokoi
Designer(s)Yoshio Sakamoto
Programmer(s)Toru Narihiro
Composer(s)Hirokazu Tanaka
Platform(s)Nintendo Entertainment System, Arcade
ReleaseArcade
NES
  • NA: August 1986
  • EU: May 1988
Genre(s)Platform, shooter
Mode(s)Single-player
Arcade systemNintendo VS. System

Gumshoe is a light gun shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo for the VS. System arcade hardware and the Nintendo Entertainment System console. It was released in 1986 in North America and in 1988 in Europe. Unusual for a Nintendo game, it was not released in Japan. It was designed by Yoshio Sakamoto.[2]

  1. ^ Akagi, Masumi (October 13, 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. p. 128. ISBN 978-4990251215.
  2. ^ Sakamoto, Yoshio (April 4, 2010). "Q&A: Metroid Creator's Early 8-Bit Days at Nintendo". Wired (Interview). Interviewed by Kohler, Chris. San Francisco: Condé Nast. Retrieved October 1, 2020.