This is the game which had Williams worried that their Defender game was going to bomb, thankfully it didn't, infact both games were very successful. I love racing games, and this was another of my favourites. With a first person perspective view, you had to reach the checkpoint blasting cars out of the way, picking up fuel pods, and collecting special weapons. The music to this game was also very impressive, and complimented the game perferctly. The original Shoot Away came from the 70's, and is as popular today as it was then.
Nothing beats the feeling of achieving a successful score on a gun game.
It even created a nationwide coin shortage in Japan. These gun games were extremely popular in the 60's and 70's, but were soon overtaken with the arrival of videogames. This game had also been the first ever coin-op videogame when it was released as Computer Space in 1972 by Nutting Asscociates, although at that time it bombed as it was too complex. The game was created and then sold to them by Nolan Bushnell, who with his next game Pong, created Atari. The last great Vector graphics based game, and what a great game it was too.