Unprofessional Fridays 76
Unprofessional Fridays
Game Mess Mornings 04/29/24
GrubbSnax
Game Mess Mornings 04/26/24
The Community Spotlight 2024.04.27
The Community Spotlight 2024.04.20
The Community Spotlight 2024.04.13
Location »
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa is a side-scrolling, action game. The four COW-boys draw their pistols "Sunset Riders" style to get those dastardly varmints out of their town!
A sequel to the FMV light-gun game Mad Dog McCree. Race the outlaw Mad Dog to lost treasure while fighting off Spanish banditos, Native American renegades, and Mad Dog's gang of bandits.
A 2D side-scrolling, action game set in the Wild West that features four bounty hunters collecting awards on targeted outlaws.
Follow the adventures of a cat named Willy as he rescues his girlfriend, Jill, from the paws of Muggsy and his dog mafia in this early Atlus release for the NES.
NES game from Konami based on the story of The Lone Ranger.
One of the earliest FMV light-gun games puts players in control of a mysterious gunslinger in the Old West, tasked with stopping the titular Mad Dog McCree and his band of outlaws.
Based on the movies, Marty McFly tries to restore the time line back to normal, traveling from 1955 to 2015.
A multi-event sports simulation set in the Wild West.
The year is 2999, and it's up to you to stop Earth from being sieged by time-travelling armies and aliens.
A side-scrolling Western-style shooter action game for the Famicom Disk System. Part of Jaleco's Big Challenge! series.
Gold Rush is an educational adventure game. The player picks one of three routes from Brooklyn to California in order to find their fortune in the gold rush of 1848.
Wells & Fargo is a game by Spanish developer Topo Soft in which players drive a stagecoach fending off attackers. The game supported two simultaneous players, one driving the coach while the other shot at enemies from the back.
An arcade game based on Boulder Dash in which the player has to guide Rockford through the puzzles and take on the role of cowboy, spaceman, doctor, chef, and hunter.
A platformer for the NES, developed by TOSE and published by Namco in Japan and Taxan in the US. It's a NES-exclusive sequel to Namco/Midway's early Arcade classic Mappy.
A side-scrolling platformer based on a Japanese anime. Help an anthropomorphic cat in boots to complete Phineas Fogg's journey around the world.
A Western-themed side-scrolling platformer for arcades by Data East, where players control a train robber beating up dudes on top of moving trains in order to steal gold bags.
A classic game from the Stamper brothers and Ultimate Play The Game.
A simple jump and run game developed and published by Casacde Games Ltd. for Commodore 64.
One of the most well-known educational computer games, teaching students about the perils faced by cross-country migrants in the 19th century United States. Lead a wagon through the titular trail and reach Oregon, or die trying!
A top-down, vertically-scrolling shooter released in the mid-80's, Gun.Smoke is one of the more popular Wild West-themed games in history, with multiple ports having been released since its early days in the arcades.
A western-themed adventure game designed by Alan Miller, co-founder of Accolade. It was released on home computers and later ported to the Japanese Famicom.
Badlands is a laser disc western published by Konami. The gameplay uses single-button quick-draw mechanics. The plot is dark in tone, following a cowboy seeking revenge for his family's murder. It's possible to kill innocent civilians, but the player is punished for it.
An early attempt at making an erotic video game, Custer's Revenge takes a famous historical figure and turns him into a pixelated lecher.
This game from Taito was released on the arcades in 1982 as a vertical scrolling shooting game.
1979 arcade shooter by Nintendo where the player must fight sixteen surrounding desperadoes. A precursor to Donkey Kong, it was designed by Genyo Takeda, with assistance from Shigeru Miyamoto, working on his first video game. Possibly the first run & gun shooter, it also introduced the damsel-in-distress trope to gaming as well as continuous background music.
It's a standoff between two gunslingers in the surreal, two-tone world of the video game west. Players blast away cover and try to defeat their opponent more often than they're defeated before the time expires.
An arcade light-gun shooter released by Kasco in 1975, this was the first holographic 3-D game.
Gun Fight, also known as Western Gun, is a 1975 arcade shooter. Set in the Wild West, Western Gun was the first on-foot shooter, introduced human combat, was the first open-world action-adventure video game, and the first real-time tactical cover shooter. Gun Fight was also the first microprocessor video game.
Wild Gunman is a light gun shooter by Nintendo. There were two versions of the game: a 1974 FMV arcade game, and later a 1984 NES game developed by Intelligent Systems; the latter uses the NES Zapper to draw, aim and shoot the opponent.
Dogies is a western cowpoke themed pinball game made by Bally in 1968. The game is electro-mechanical and features the rare "Zipper Flippers."
This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:
Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.
Use your keyboard!
Log in to comment
Log in to comment