The Wii U version of Super Smash Bros. features a trophy based on the 1979 arcade game Sheriff, director Masahiro Sakurai shared via Miiverse last night.
āIn this game, the players aim by choosing one of eight directions to shoot using a second joystick separate from the one that controls movement,ā Sakurai wrote. āIt was quite a revolutionary game for its time.ā
āFor shooting games overseas, it’s common to see games that utilize the left stick to move around and the right to determine the direction to shoot, so we can say the origin of modern shooting games was this gameāwhich is pretty remarkable.ā
Sheriff was designed by Nintendoās Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda. If youāre curious, you can see the gameās arcade cabinet in action below. As you can see, it doesn’t quite use two “sticks,” as the second input is actually a dial or sorts. You canĀ read about how the owner came across the cabinetĀ here.
Published: Oct 2, 2014 09:29 am