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The Midway version was also the first video game to use a microprocessor instead of TTL.
In March 1976, the first annual RePlay arcade chart listed Gun Fight as third best-charting video game among its polled operators.
In November 1977, the first annual Play Meter arcade chart listed Gun Fight as the fifth best-charting arcade video game of 1977.
They commented that "Gun Fight was the first game to feature two humanized characters attempting to outfight each other, which would become one of the most common themes in games for the next 25-plus years"; that it was one of the first Japanese video games imported to North America; and that Midway's version "was the first microprocessor-based arcade game".
The game was included in GameSpy's "Hall of Fame" in 2002.
They commented that "Gun Fight was the first game to feature two humanized characters attempting to outfight each other, which would become one of the most common themes in games for the next 25-plus years"; that it was one of the first Japanese video games imported to North America; and that Midway's version "was the first microprocessor-based arcade game".
Crane said the game was influenced by Gun Fight and liked the idea of making a game with two opposing gunfighters.
In 1995, GamesMaster host Dominik Diamond called Sega's arcade game Virtual On: Cyber Troopers "a futuristic version" of Gun Fight.
Taito had previously made licensing deals with Midway Manufacturing to release their video games in the United States, including TV Basketball and Speed Race (1974) (renamed Wheels by Midway).
McHugh (1946–2020) and another programmer (later replaced by Jamie Fenton) were propositioned to work on Gun Fight.
In Taito's Space Invaders Part II of 1979, this circuit was replaced by a Fujitsu MB14241, a single-chip implementation of the barrel shifter introduced in Gun Fight.
Gun Fight sold 8,600 units in the United States, making it among the best selling video games of the time period and the top selling game released in 1975.
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