Capcom's Gun.Smoke for NES! YEE HAW #videogame #gaming #retrogaming #8bit
4Gun.Smoke, originally released on the Famicom Disk System before coming to the NES, is an arcade port and a unique take on the shooter genre. Instead of piloting a plane or spaceship, you play as a rootin’ tootin’ cowboy, taking out dirty varmints in the Old West.
The controls are simple: A shoots left, B shoots right, and pressing both fires straight ahead.
Interestingly, you don't just fire one gun – you shoot akimbo, with two guns, for double-fisted, double-barreled action!
Like many games of the era, Gun.Smoke incorporates a light RPG element. As you defeat enemies, you earn money, which can then be used to purchase new firearms from the townspeople.
The action stages are a perfect fit for the Famicom Disk System's RAM limitations, the game's complexity sits comfortably between earlier NES cartridges without memory mappers and the later, more sophisticated mapper-enhanced games.
Aesthetically, it's a 1980s interpretation of cowboy tropes. Problematic context aside, it's a good time.
Gun.Smoke is a surefire bet for a rootin’ tootin’, bad-guy-blastin’, 8-bit, Capcom-fueled romp.
Be the American the Japanese think you are by playing Gun.Smoke for the NES!