Nice game. You star as the drunken sheriff and are fooling around
in a local saloon. When the game starts you can see the sheriff
liquoring up and, probably quite drunk, shooting twice into the
air. The bar tender serves different drinks which he slides over
the bar and throws to the left. For some reason the drunken sheriff
feels like shooting the drinks. You can shoot one, two or three
drinks in one time depending on how many are passing through the
same line of fire, if you shoot three drinks at once, you'll get a
bonus, also a bonus bottle will appear and when you shoot that one
as well you get an extra bonus. The two customers sitting at the
bar are not happy with this rude behavior of the sheriff and the
guy on the left throws ashtrays at you while the lady to the right
throws apples, these must be avoided.
After shooting 20 drinks, a showdown at the saloon is going down. A
bandit can be heard approaching from outside and enters through the
swinging doors. The sheriff takes position behind the table at the
right which provides some cover, it can absorb three bullets from
the bandit. The bandit at the left will hide at different places
and will only shoot when he's right in front of you. This is the
only time you can hit him, the only thing you have to do is press
'fire'. The sheriff will automatically stand in front of the table
and shoot, at this time you're vulnerable to the bandits bullets
too. The trick is to push 'fire' at the exact right time when the
bandit stands in front of you. This takes split second timing and
is actually quite faithful to the normal showdowns in
westerns.
After hitting the bandit three times, you will go back to your
hobby of shooting drinks, but this time the bandit occasionally
throws sticks of dynamite into the saloon, you must make sure not
to shoot it or you will explode. Sometimes the bartender, probably
fed up with you, grabs the dynamite and throws it at you in the
bottom right corner. You must walk over there and pour some whiskey
over it to defuse it, this is done with the bottle which the
sheriff is holding all the time.
The sound in this game is a strange breed: the sound for a gunshot
is satisfyingly real and actually makes you feel you're watching a
western, the rest of the game contains some unusually detailed
melodies, but these and the rest of the sound effects are so vivid
and loud that it is actually quite annoying, it can luckily be
turned of.
Original game, fun to play.
