Gun Buster (arcade game)

This article is about the game. For the anime, see Gunbuster.
Gun Buster
Title screen
Developer(s)Taito
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)T. Matsumoto
Ryuji Tominaga[3]
Programmer(s)Shinji Soyano
Hikaru Taniguchi
Takashi Ishii[3]
Artist(s)Ryuji Tominaga
Tsutomu Sekimoto
Hisakazu Katoh[3]
Composer(s)Kazuyuki Ohnui
Yasuko Yamada[3]
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
Genre(s)First-person shooter[4]
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer (2-4 players)
Arcade systemTaito SZ System

Gun Buster (ガン バスター),[4] also known as Gunbuster (ガンバスター)[3] and released in North America as Operation Gunbuster,[5] is a first-person shooter video game developed by Taito and released for arcades in 1992.[4][6][7][8] In contrast to on-rail light gun shooters at the time, this was one of the first arcade games to feature free-roaming FPS gameplay, the same year Wolfenstein 3D was released on personal computers.[6][7]

Gun Buster's control scheme consists of a joystick for movement and strafing and a light gun for aiming and turning.[8] The player can also carry multiple weapons, each with different recharge rates and movement speeds, and the game's maps include walls, glasses and columns that can be used for dodging and shootouts.[8] It also features multiplayer deathmatch modes for up to four players, between two teams, on a dual-monitor arcade cabinet.[4][6]

  1. ^ "Operation Gunbuster". Play Meter. Vol. 18, no. 10. September 1992. p. 7.
  2. ^ "Operation Gunbuster". RePlay. Vol. 17, no. 12. September 1992. p. 5.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Gunbuster [coin-op] Arcade Video game, Taito Corp. (1992)". Arcade-history.com. 2013-01-27. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
  4. ^ a b c d "Gun Buster - Videogame by Taito". Arcade-museum.com. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
  5. ^ "The Arcade Flyer Archive - Video Game Flyers: Operation Gunbuster, Taito". Flyers.arcade-museum.com. 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
  6. ^ a b c "Looking At Taitos History As They Turn 60". Arcade Heroes. August 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
  7. ^ a b "The Brief Life of Arcade First Person Shooting Games". Arcade Heroes. June 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-10.
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