Shooting Games

Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor, a hardware change that helped make more complex animation practical. Meanwhile, the mechanics tell a second story. Respawn timers are social pacing tools in multiplayer: too short and mistakes feel meaningless; too long and the punishment becomes watching everyone else have fun. Every shooter contains at least one doorway that looked perfectly safe until it wasn't.