Reviews

Whilst walking home you discover a man lying in the road dying. After uttering the words " The Wild Bunch" and giving a brief description of his attacker the man dies. At that moment the sheriff arrives and seeing you with the dead body and a gun in your hand decides to arrest you. You manage to escape but are now a wanted man. So you set off to find the real killer and clear your name.
The game starts with you fleeing to one of five towns. In each of these towns there are a few things you can do including playing poker in the saloon to try and win some money, buying provisions from the store and checking the location of the Pinkerton agent who's on your trail. If he catches up with you it's game over.
The game plays like a cross between an adventure game and a choose your own adventure book, with you choosing what to do from a menu. The Wild Bunch is quite basic but all the elements come together to make for a really fun experience. The poker mini game in particular is very addictive.

A collection of mini-games inside a bigger one . Cool stuff ...

This original idea could have been exploited much more ... !!!

2,5 / 5 .

It's an interesting one to say the least and I like the idea of it. I didn't do so well but I know I could have made better choices like buy more food and a horse as well as pay attention to the wanted poster in the the sheriff's office. This one will certainly have me coming back for more for sure.

Everything about this game just screams shit from the rooftops!

Yet even for it's very basic, and simple style is an amazingly fun game that just seems like it almost oozes an innocent charm. Why I feel that way is beyond me as pretty much everyone is out to get you....There's no innocence here at all.

Basically you're being persued by "The Pinkerton Agent" for a murder you didn't commit, and you have to clear your name by travelling around 5 stereotypical Wild Western towns with names like "Dodge City", and "Dry Gulch", to find the actual culprit. If you do find him or any of the notorious Wild Bunch, one of which is responsible for the murder you're being blamed for, you can "Bring em' in", or choose to have a quick draw style shoot out with them.


The quick draw when I was younger seemed really unfair, and I really had no idea what I was doing. I had no idea what key to press to shoot, then when I did press something I'd always draw too early and get done for murder, or I'd draw too late and get shot. Turns out it doesn't really matter what key you press you just mash the keyboard when they reach for it!...."Mister!".

Great game although everything about it screams crap, but I'd like to say for how simple this game is it's actually very inventive, and a bit of a diamond in the rough as far as adventure games go, especially for 1984.