A closer look
Gun Fight was released in 1975 and holds the prestigious title of being the very first arcade video game to use a microprocessor instead of basic solid-state routing. It was also the first arcade game to depict actual human-on-human combat, breaking away from the abstract spaceships and bouncing squares of early arcade titles. We basically harnessed the revolutionary power of the newly invented microchip solely to simulate shooting our friends with pixels, perfectly setting the ideological trajectory for the next fifty years of the video game industry's relentless obsession with digital firepower
