Most importantly, each requires a different set of tactics in order for the player to succeed.
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Highlights include Simon Greedwell (who spouts the game’s iconic “Bury me with my money” catchphrase once defeated), The Smith Brothers (one of the era’s greatest boss battles) and final antagonist Sir Richard Rose, but every boss battle in the game is superb and full of neat, creative touches. Choosing from four different characters – each with marginally different weapons – you’ll head out across the American frontier, unloading round after round into a constant stream of enemies as you search for your bounties.Įach stage sees you up against a different outlaw, and each of them is brilliantly memorable.
The differences are negligible, but whichever one you pick you’re going to have a good time. We were a little surprised that Sunset Riders has made it to the Switch in an unedited form, given its cheerfully un-PC genre pastiche and stereotyped characters such as Chief Scalpem and Paco Loco – but here it is, all present and correct.Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)įour versions are available here the Japanese two and four-player versions, as well as the equivalent worldwide cabinets. One of Konami’s best games ever and produced at the height of the company’s powers, Sunset Riders is a multiplayer blast through a world inspired by the Spaghetti Westerns of yore we’re talking cowpokes, saloons, can-can girls and a fistful of dynamite.
The arcade original almost hit Xbox 360 as part of its ill-fated Game Room line, but this is the first time the original arcade version of Sunset Riders has been playable at home – short of buying your own cabinet.Īnd what a treat it is. Not officially available anywhere since making its arcade bow (outside of the well-intentioned but obviously weaker home ports on the SNES and Mega Drive, at least), Konami’s phenomenally good Western-themed run n’ gun Sunset Riders has finally been re-released as part of Hamster’s superb Arcade Archives line.
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