Reviews

1987 US Gold (UK)
by Pal Zsadanyi, Pal Zsadanyi Jr., Attila Kertesz and Zoltan Farkas

Wow. I totally forgot about this game.
I loved it in the arcade machines and I was anxious to play the Speccy conversion. And yes it ain't good, but it does the job for me, at least for a while.
Now seeing it for the first time almost a million years after, I must say it still holds the same magic it had, despite being only an average conversion...

Despite pretty basic graphics and sound this is a convincing conversion of the old Data East coin-op.

As a Wild West outlaw, you must first get on board of a train carrying gold and then proceed to the locomotive jumping from wagon to wagon and defeating its defenders in hand-to-hand combat. The subsequent stage has you trying to do the same, this time shooting the defenders from the back of a horse running aside the train.

Good classic fun for all, although, as I said earlier, it's not one of the prettiest-looking Spectrum games ever.

Crappish western beat'em up over a train with ridiculous collision detection and sprite masking.
2,5/5

While the graphics are pretty appalling the gameplay is pretty alright really, although I felt none of his attacks worked apart from the flying kick and the horse riding part was a bit annoying but then that was a fault in the arcade version too. But it is pretty playable at least.