Description
Gun.Smoke is a top-down scrolling shooter that casts the gamer as a lone gunman, out to save the gold rush town of Hicksville from a fearsome group of bandits known as the Wingates. Each level has a particular target enemy, although his or her henchmen must also be taken out.
Although it largely takes place on foot, the gameplay resembles
Commando, with its top-down action. The screen scrolls at a constant rate, and enemies come at you from the edges, to be shot or avoided. You can grab various power-ups along the way. Finding a horse will allow you to get hit twice before you die rather than just once. There are scenes in which you raft up a river and use the tracks of a railway line.
On the NES you can tap the A button to fire up and right, the B button to fire up and left, or A and B simultaneously to fire straight ahead. One-button control systems mimic all this.
Alternate Titles
- "Gunsmoke" -- UK MSX title
- "Desperado" -- Spanish computer title
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The Press Says
| NES Times |
NES |
Dec 28, 2007 |
8 out of 10 |
80 |
| Defunct Games |
NES |
Aug 09, 2009 |
80 out of 100 |
80 |
| Tilt |
Amstrad CPC |
Jul, 1988 |
6 out of 20 |
30 |
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Trivia
The dot in the middle of Gun.Smoke was inserted by Capcom in order to avoid certain legal issues; namely, there was a popular American TV series that went by the same name, albeit without the dot. With the dot being rendered as a sheriff's star, most people hardly notice this difference.
