Hey, I'm telling you! Have you already had the opportunity to read the first and second part of our special dedicated to videogames set in the dusty Far West ?! If you haven't done it yet, try to fix it ... and quickly, too! When you are done, come back here. This is the third part and there is no other choice for you: you have to read it!
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (1993)
Created by Al Lowe (Leisure Suit Larry) e Josh Mandel (Callahan Crosstime Saloon) and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is an adventure game published exclusively on PC and Mac, featuring hand-drawn graphics (256 colors) powered by the SCI 1.1 graphics engine. The title was published both on floppy-disk and on CD-ROM and was among the first “Point & Click” graphic adventures in history. The protagonist of the events narrated, a pharmacist from 1880 named Freddy, operating in the city of Coarsegold in California (which in 1993 housed the headquarters of Sierra). Freddy decides to give himself to the sale of drugs after a shooting with a particular outcome, which we will certainly not reveal to you! By Al Lowe's own admission, the title was inspired by Blazing Saddles, a satirical reinterpretation of the story of the Wild West directed by Mel Brooks in 1974.
The Last Bounty Hunter (1994)
Still a live-action video game published by American Laser Games. Like all the games produced by this development house (now disappeared), it is a fun shooter based on interactive scenes shot in real life. On this occasion, the reprise was performed in the Old Tucson Studios in Tucson, Arizona (USA). In 2009 on Wii, in 2013 on PlayStation 3, the title was revived in these two latest incarnations in the “Six Gun Select” collection along with Global VR's Fast Draw Showdown.
Fast Draw Showdown (1994)
Here it is, in fact, Fast Draw Showdown! Published in 1994 by American Laser Games e Digital Leisure in a coin-op version, it was re-released in the “Six Gun Select” collection along with The Last Bounty Hunter, as you have just read. The classic Wild West shootings were also revived in the PC version, with guaranteed support for mouse and gun. On PlayStation 3 the title supports PlayStation Move.
The Yukon Trail (1994)
Developed and produced in 1994 by MECC for PC and Mac, The Yukon Trail is a western-style graphic adventure based on The Oregon Trail series. The events are set at the time of the gold rush that broke out in Klondike at the end of the XNUMXth century. Jack London (White Fang) collaborated in the creation of the game.
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1994)
Based on the animated film "Fievel Conquers the West", An American Tail: Fievel Goes West was released in 1994 by Hudson Soft for Super Nintendo. The player takes control of Fievel Toposkovich, a mouse born from the imagination of Universal studios, who first appeared in the historic animated film "Fievel lands in America" and also starred in an animated TV series entitled "The adventures of Fievel ". An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is also the title of a video game developed by Capstone Software released in 1993 for MS-DOS but, unlike the title made by Hudson Soft, in this case players were asked to complete a graphic adventure.
Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters (1994)
Known in Japan as "Lethal Enforcers II: The Western“, This shoot'em up was developed and published by Konami in 1994. It's the Lethal Enforcers prequel, also set in the Wild West. The aim of the game is to shoot all the outlaws who dare to block the player's path, in an attempt to put an end to the rampant crime wave.
Wild Guns (1994)
In 1994 the development house Natsume released for Super Nintendo Entertainment System (for friends, SNES), Wild guns, third-person shooter in a "fantasy-western" setting. The player could choose to play a protagonist between the two proposed (Clint and Annie) and face the endless shootings set in Carson City. The title featured, in total, 6 levels, between desolate canyons and dusty gold mines. The name given to the male lead, Clint, is a clear homage to the legendary Clint Eastwood.
1994 - Alone in the Dark 3
Alone in the Dark 3 ("Only in the dark") is the third chapter of the videogame series born in the studios of Infrogrames and was published exclusively in the PC version by Interplay. The title is set in a location called Slaughter Gulch, located near the Mojave Desert, where a film crew disappears. Guess who will have to solve the mystery… That's right!
Dust: A Tale of the Wired West (1995)
Developed by Cyberflix in 1995, Dust: A Tale of the Wired West is a graphic adventure for PC in three-dimensional graphics in which players take on the role of The Stranger ("The Stranger"), and set in the western part of the desert of New Mexico in 1882. In addition to the main adventure to complete, players could entertain themselves between games of poker and blackjack. All the characters encountered in this Point & Click adventure are represented by photographs of professional actors animated in sync with the lines of text of the dialogues. In 1995 the title was awarded as "Best Multimedia Game" by Macworld magazine. Despite the actual quality of the product, the game sold just 30.000 units (a result achieved, among other things, only in 1999, four years after its launch).
