ZX Spectrum

Desperado 2

The game loads to this screen where the player can choose between the game's two zones.

This menu is displayed just before the start of the game. I selected option 1 : Action key definition. This is asking for the 'UP' key. It's not very readable

Beginning of zone 1. The player starts with three lives, I'd lost one before I started taking screen shots.

Straight away bad guys appear on the roof, from behind windows, from the right and from the left. Their bullets are white, mine are blue

Moving right. Cleared the ground floor windows. Shot the bad guy in front of me

Another guy has appeared in the window to the left, one has popped up on the roof and there's two ahead. One of these is set back from the boardwalk and cannot be shot yet

The baddie who could not be shot has just jumped out and shot me in the back. He can only be shot when he jumps out like this. It was the guy on the roof who killed me though

Last life. Shooting up at the man in the upstairs right window

Crouching to avoid bullets from the right while I take care of the man on the left

I think the baddie on the right just dropped something, ammo I hope

This is as far right as I went, though I'm sure the game goes further. I know someone will try to drop that bale of hay on me as I pass beneath

Got the guy on the roof!

The sneaky guy round the corner has killed me. He's ducked back so my blue bullet will miss him, his white bullet, however, is still in play and kills me

Its a poor score but it still tops the high score table

Start of Zone 2. Looks as if an access code is needed