''Gotcha! The Sport!'' is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was released in 1987. It uses the

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light gun and is a

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-style game played with

paintball Paintball is a competitive team shooting sport in which players eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with spherical dye-filled gelatin capsules called paintballs that break upon impact. Paintballs are usually shot using low-energy ai ...

guns loaded with simulated paintballs. The game was loosely based on the 1985

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film '' Gotcha!'', starring Anthony Edwards. The player's mission is to get through the level, capture the enemy flag by shooting it, and return it to their base. This is while simultaneously trying not to get shot by the other team, run out of ammo, or run out of time. A

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is necessary for this game, but one needs to also use the controller. The directional pad will move the screen left and right. Ammo boxes can be found sitting on the ground or carried by enemies in the background. It seems that only misses cost the player ammo, so if one's aim is precise, they will receive a significant bonus for leftover ammunition. There are three levels in the game: Woods, Warehouse District and Snow Fields. The Woods and Snow Fields levels feature enemies in military garb, while the Warehouse District features enemies modeled after early 1980s punks. These rounds repeat in this order infinitely; each time around, the

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needed for the enemies to aim and fire is reduced.

Paintball guns

In addition to the video game,

Entertech Entertech was a brand of battery-powered motorized water guns sold in the United States from 1985 to 1990 by the now-defunct LJN. Unlike the colorful designs of many of the simple hand powered pump water guns of that time, most of the Entertech wa ...

(a division of LJN) produced and sold paintball guns—and related gear—for kids using the same name and logo as the video game. * ''The Enforcer'', double pistol set * ''The Commando'' * protective glasses * targets * suits

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1987 video games Atlus games First-person shooters Light gun games LJN games Multiplayer and single-player video games Nintendo Entertainment System games Nintendo Entertainment System-only games North America-exclusive video games Paintball video games Video games based on films Video games developed in Japan Video games scored by Hirohiko Takayama Video games set in forests {{shooter-videogame-stub