Shoot em up cowboy games

Image source: hardcoregaming The game was developed by a British company, Software Creations, and makes the list because it takes an interesting approach to the Wild West theme with charming cartoony robot characters. The colours and graphics are delightful. Image source: The 80s database. Iron Horse was first released in arcades in by Konami. This game has classic old school run and gun action, set on a train as you try to prevent a robbery.

At the time the game was ported to the C64 but it has been overshadowed by Green Beret which became far more popular on home computers and consoles. Image source: arcade-museum. Bank Panic is a classic Sega arcade game released in The game is set in a bank and there are twelve rotating doors which open to reveal different characters such as bank customers who have come to deposit money, little boy wearing lots of hats which can be shot for a bonus and bank robbers. You have three buttons corresponding to each door and pressing one of them will shoot the person in the doorway.

The joystick is used to decide which doors to open. The challenge of the game is to react quickly by shooting the bank robber whilst allowing the paying customers to deposit their cash. This is a lovely game with simple classic gameplay that never grows old. The game was ported by Sega to the Master System and there were clones produced on other systems under the name of West Bank. Smoke is a vertically scrolling shoot-em-up from Capcom.

The arcade version has quite a complicated control scheme — the screen keeps scrolling and your character keeps moving forwards — in this way it plays a bit like You have 3 buttons which shoot in different directions forwards, left and right but press two buttons together to shoot at different angles.

The game originally released in arcades in but was ported to the NES and a variety of home computers such as the ZX Spectrum. Capcom went on to develop a similar style of game called Commando and that was such a huge hit in arcades and home consoles that Gun. Smoke was largely forgotten.

Confirm Something went wrong, please try again. Related games. Rockababy Airlines Unity 3D. Raft Wars Flash. Lunatron Jet Ride Unity 3D. Lunatron Drop Unity 3D. Orbis Unity 3D. Space Flight Simulator Unity 3D. Dripdrop WebGL. Golfing Egg Unity 3D. Cowboy Games are gun shooting games which play in the Wild West. Welcome back to the good old times with bull rides, rodeos, gunfights and saloons.

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