Reviews

Originally, Desperado was a GunSmoke rip-off released in Spain. It had enormous success in sales, also had a notably amount of bribed reviews at magazines.

The game looks great with very nice graphics with lovely color scroll smooth enough.

Users appreciated severe slow-downs when appeared two enemies on screen. This 'detail' never were mentioned on spanish magazines. These slow-downs and long loading times from stages, prevented Desperado of being a fully enjoyable as a simple vertical shooter.

Few months later, U.S.Gold commissioned the program to release it as the proper GunSmoke conversion.

Appropriate Spectrum version of the classic arcade by spanish software house Topo.

A vertical shoot-em-up in which you must go through five levels infested of enemies (a western town, a river, a railroad, a prairie, ...) and a final boss at the end of every stage.

It's a very addictive game (its best point) with acceptable graphics and good movement and scroll. Definitely Topo made a very decent conversion of the Capcom classic.

Gun.Smoke is an arcade game I've never been a fan of, but this port, whilst being bland and too much the same, is much more playable.

Inspired upon the arcade coin-op Gunsmoke, this straight shoot 'em up plays rather nicely. I like the overall presentation, the Wild West is well depicted and the graphics represent them well. It's not as good as the official conversion, but it's pretty close. There is a sequel but it's a bit dissapointing.