Gun.Smoke
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Arcade game flyer
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| Developer(s) | Capcom |
| Publisher(s) | Capcom, Romstar (North American Arcade release) |
| Designer(s) | Yoshiki Okamoto |
| Composer(s) |
Arcade version Ayako Mori FDS/NES version Junko Tamiya |
| Platform(s) | FDS, NES, Amstrad CPC, MSX, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, ZX Spectrum, Xbox, Sega Saturn, IBM PC |
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| Genre(s) | Overhead scrolling shooter, western |
| Mode(s) | Up to two players, simultaneously |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| CPU | Z80 (@ 4 MHz) |
| Sound | Z80 (@ 3 MHz) (2x) YM2203 (@ 1.5 MHz) |
| Display | Raster, vertical orientation, 256 x 224 |
Gun.Smoke is a 1985 vertical scrolling shooter arcade game by Capcom. This Wild West-themed game was designed by Yoshiki Okamoto. Gun.Smoke centers on a character named Billy Bob in the NES version, a bounty hunter who is after vicious criminals of the Wild West.
The game is a spiritual predecessor to the Red Dead series of action-adventure games. Despite its name and theme, it has no connection to the Western TV series Gunsmoke.
Gun.Smoke is similar to 1942 and Commando, also developed by Capcom, but with some differences. This game is a scrolling shooter in which the screen scrolls upward automatically and players only have three ways to shoot, using three buttons for left, right, and center shooting. The player can also change the way the gunman shoots through button combinations. The player dies by getting shot or struck by enemies otherwise by getting caught between an obstacle and the bottom of the screen. The player can collect special items, including a horse for protection up to three hits (or get killed by an obstacle), boots for speed of movement, bullets for faster shots and rifles for longer shot range. These items are found by shooting barrels and rifles, boots, and bullets can stock up to five. Some items that add score points include stars, bottles, bags, dragonflies, and cows, but two other items to watch out for are the yashichi, which is a 1up and the cattle skull, which reduces Billy's power.
Note: Two versions of Gun.Smoke were released under license in America by Romstar. One has a fixed sequence of bosses; in the other, the third and sixth levels are swapped, so that Roy is followed by Wolf Chief, and Pig Joe is followed by Ninja. The other version also removes the boss rundown.
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