Boot Hill (Midway 1977)

[MajorHavoc321]

funky

[Kamized]

mame's rom don't have any sound, what can I do?

[Umma6umma]

@Kamized Look for the MAME samples, either as a pack or separate for each game that requires them. Games like Boot Hill don't have a sound chip to emulate; sound packs are audio recordings that people have made of the game, and MAME uses those to replicate the audio.

[Kamized]

@Umma6umma oooh, good idea to complete the emulation, thanx!!

[ihatestupidsignups]

Shakeys pizza, I think our game bill was more than the pizza

[Paulywint]

A supper club had this game

[baddestbeagle]

Thanks for adding this. I played it at Dover when the travelling funfair hit town circa 1979 - wish it was available on pc or iTunes !

[IMPERIALSTORMTROOPER]

OMG ive just been sent back to a wee arcade in morcambe, lancashire and its 1978

[blockhead33]

OMG this is soo like red dead redemption but 30 years older!!!!!!

[SeventhSun]

Hmm, coloured background with mono-coloured characters and movable parts... this looks better as a Tiger electronics handheld or a Game and Watch.

[joesmoe71]

Looks like I'm going to own one of these by the end of the week, needs the PCB fixed as well as a monitor and the backglass, should make for an interesting project.

[mariusz1239]

Maybe I'm wrong, but this game was in ''Dawn Of The Dead'', from 1978.

[joesmoe71]

@mariusz1239 Yep, although they took the backglass out of the game for that scene, I guess because it might have been tougher to see on film.

[jimmyconway]

this game looks weird

[undocumentedspot]

I played the original on intellivision. it was great, along with soccer supposedly but looks nothing like soccer. lol

[funhomeboy]

Whats the name of the music when you die ?

It's kinda bugging me !!!!!

[catbleblk]

funeral march

[Umma6umma]

I've edited the video to correct the name and date to Boot Hill, thanks to all who pointed out the correctlon.

[MondoReyTV1]

@Umma6umma i thought this game was in black and white,right?

[Umma6umma]

@MondoReyTV1 Yes, it was black and white with coloured background art reflected onto the playfield.

[MondoReyTV1]

@Umma6umma Aha!!! that's right,my short term memory isn't that fried from getting stoned before entering the arcade!

thanks dude!

[davidbowe]

is this not boot hill?

[SONICSATAMJAMER77]

Maybe this was the very very first video game to "talk".

I need to know who they got them to say "shot me".

[NardDogz]

In this emulated version, it does sound like there are digitized sound effects; for example the Uhhh! sound when a cowboy gets hit. Very interesting!

However, it must be an artifact of the sound emulation. I own an actual arcade machine and it sounds quite different than this.

There are no human-sounding effects, just typical early Midway booming and white-noise effects. I was kind of let down when I got it. Still, it's a fun two-player machine.

[routerpimp]

Take your grandfather's balls out of your mouth and you might be able to spell at a 2nd grade level.

[routerpimp]

This is not a Gunfight - this is Boot Hill. Gunfight does not have back art.

[airsoftcrazy1313]

u would know cuz u love looking at games from 1975 faget

[SuperDave341]

what an idiot, i guess you're a xbox fan boy

[NardDogz]

Fun game! On the actual arcade machine, players hold the joysticks in their left hands and aim the guns with authentic pistol grip controls with their right.

Actually, this isn't Gun Fight, although GF looks quite similiar. Gun fight was this game's predecessor. It was 2 player only, and did not use the black light & half silvered mirror trick as was done on Boot Hill. There are a few differences in sprites as well. Gun Fight has fir tree sprites, and also the wagon travels up and down.

[pookie67]

holy jeez this brings back memories, i sure remember this

[jeopardy60611]

This game makes me think of my grandfather who saw me playing it back in 1979, only 3 months before he died. I recall finishing the game, and my grandfather, hearing the closing music, remarked "That's Taps."

[doragonfry]

cool:D

[Umma6umma]

The thing that got me when I played this game again was the sound. Hearing that funeral dirge again when a gun fighter got shot brought me right back to those noisy arcades on the boardwalk and my poor, mis-spent youth.

[ericinwisconsin]

@Umma6umma Oh,that was YOU?? I thought so!

LOL! Seriously, we all did. I remember being 16 years old and playing pong in a Pizza Hut in 1976. We thought that was sooooo cool back then.