Long before the light-gun arcade cabinet, the coin-operated gun game stood shoulder to shoulder with pinball on the arcade floor - and was very often built by the same hands. The shooting games gathered here came from [[manufacturer:id:714]] and [[manufacturer:id:86]], pinball powerhouses that also armed players with mechanical rifles and pop-up targets.
They range from wartime-era novelties like [[manufacturer:id:86]]'s *[[title:id:5612]]* (1942) to safari-themed shooting galleries such as [[manufacturer:id:714]]'s *[[title:id:4407]]* (1954), where the goal was marksmanship rather than a well-timed flip. Catalogs list them beside pinball because they shared a factory, a route operator and a coin slot - but there is no playfield here, only a target downrange.
By Flipcommons Catalog·
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7
name
Gun Game
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gun-game
By The Flip Museum·
description
reverted by The Flip Museum·
Long before the light-gun arcade cabinet, the coin-operated gun game stood shoulder to shoulder with pinball on the arcade floor - and was very often built by the same hands. The shooting games gathered here came from [[manufacturer:id:714]] and [[manufacturer:id:86]], pinball powerhouses that also armed players with mechanical rifles and pop-up targets.
They range from wartime-era novelties like [[manufacturer:id:86]]'s *[[title:id:5612]]* (1942) to safari-themed shooting galleries such as [[manufacturer:id:714]]'s *[[title:id:4407]]* (1954), where the goal was marksmanship rather than a well-timed flip. Catalogs list them beside pinball because they shared a factory, a route operator and a coin slot - but there is no playfield here, only a target downrange.