10 Video Games That Got History Wrong

6. GUN

Every American high school student knows, even the ones exchanging notes and spraying spitballs at the teacher from the back, that the Civil War began when the Confederates fired upon Fort Sumter in 1861, and came to a close with General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House in 1865.

Neversoft's writers must have been sick that week. Their PS2 Western GUN, a game prophetically lauded as a rootin' 'n' tootin' Grand Theft Auto four years prior to Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption (though Revolver had been released a year prior), takes place in 19th century America immediately after the Civil War - though apparently hostilities went into overtime in their version.

Resistance leader Clay Allison tells protagonist Colton White that his father died in the Civil War 'ten years ago' - this despite Colton explicitly stating the year as 1880 in the game's opening sequence. Perhaps there was another, secret Civil War?

As an added bonus, GUN lets you trade chips for dollars in parlour houses with those little swingy saloon doors only now seen in trendy wine bars. It's a staple of every Western game ever, so Neversoft probably aren't alone in this snafu, but GUN's variant of Texas Hold 'Em wasn't actually invented until the early 1900s - almost half a decade after it's set.