
The other two items includes gold dust piles and roasted chickens, which will provide the player with additional points. Two badge-shaped power-ups can be obtained by defeating sack-carrying enemies: the Silver Badge grants the player a second gun, allowing their character to shoot at two directions at the same time while the Gold Badge allows the player to fire continuously with the shoot button press down. The player can also slide by holding the joystick downwards diagonally while pressing Jump. During the upper levels, the player can shoot downwards (diagonally or vertically) while crouching (whereas on the ground level, the player can only shoot forwards while crouching). The player can jump between different floors when possible by holding the joystick up or down while pressing Jump. The player's gun has unlimited ammunition and can shoot forwards and upwards while the player is standing or jumping. The game's controls consist of an eight-way joystick for moving the character and two buttons for shooting and jumping. In the 2-player version, each player can choose the character they want to control before starting the game, while in the 4-player version the characters are pre-assigned based on the order of the players. The player can play as one of four bounty hunters: Steve and Billy are armed with peacemakers (for faster shots), while Bob and Cormano both use shotguns (for wider shots). At the beginning of each level the player is shown a wanted poster, showing the criminal, the reward for stopping them, and the cliché line "Wanted dead or alive".

There is no true "storyline" aside from collecting progressively larger rewards.

The game, which is set in a fanciful version of the American Old West, revolves around four bounty hunters who are out to claim rewards given for eliminating the most wanted outlaws in the West. Home versions of Sunset Riders were released for the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) in 1992 and for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993 The coin-op version was released in two variants: a 2-player version and a 4-player version. The game is set during the American Old West, where the player takes control of a bounty hunter who is seeking the rewards offered for various criminals. Sunset Riders ( サンセットライダーズ Sansetto Raidāzu ?) is a side-scrolling run-and-gun style shoot-'em-up released by Konami as a coin-operated video game in 1991. (April 2010)Ĭredits | Soundtrack | Codes | Walkthrough

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