Honestly, I think you'd have to carry two shotguns to get away with an outfit like that. Why? Because he's a bearded bandito-looking fellow wearing a hot-pink sombrero and poncho ensemble and carrying two shotguns. On to character selection, and there's only one choice: It has to be Cormano, and any other choice is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Steve the cowboy, Billy the cowboy, Bob the Cowboy and Cormano the Mexican all seem to have the shooting prowess they also appear to be colour-blind, judging by their outfits which are all in the sort of migraine-inducing neon colours that ice-pops used to be before government legislation put an end to that sort of thing. There's a nice little cartoon intro sequence (with some excellent music) where our heroes are introduced, firing guns and generally acting Old-West-like.
It's certainly a game that makes its intentions plain. Then the title screen, complete with horses and chock-full of cowboy font. Okay, I'm going to stop the cowboy talk now, I promise.įirst of all, there's the classic Konami logo, glittering like a joyous beacon in the sea of dreck that made up eighty per cent of SNES titles, and always a reassuring sight.
Released in 1993 by Konami, Sunset Riders probably has the highest concentration of rootin' tootin' to be found in any SNES game, so saddle up as I discuss some of its finer points. Yee-haw, I suppose, because today I'll be moseying my way through Sunset Riders.