Sunset Riders
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The Wild West...full of the criminal element. Sir Richard Rose, the most despicable face in the criminal lot, has enough power to control the mining facilities, cattle ranches, and trading communities and turn everything to his favor. With that much power, he could literally buy himself the Wild West and control everything!
The people need help, desperately. And just as things were looking grim, who should ride into town but 4 men who have made a pact: to put down Sir Richard Rose and make the Wild West a free and peaceful place to live.
Steve, Bob, Billy, and Cormano are the Sunset Riders, and they're about to live out the wildest shootout the Wild West has ever seen...
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- アーケードアーカイブス サンセットライダーズ - Japanese PS4 / Switch spelling
- サンセットライダーズ - Japanese spelling
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Critics
Average score: 77% (based on 32 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.8 out of 5 (based on 71 ratings with 1 reviews)
A bad port of a fantastic game.
The Good
Not much. That's all I have to say.
The Bad
Bosses and stages cutscene voices and characters Steve and Bob have been removed, and character sprites, sound effects, and the bonus stage are slightly different. You now lose $1000 each time you take death.
The Bottom Line
If you are looking for a port of Sunset Riders to play at home, buy the SNES version. Because the Genesis port of the game is guaranteed to disappoint you after a week.
Genesis · by retroboy 275 (1) · 2007
Trivia
Censored content
In Stage 6 of the SNES version of Sunset Riders, a major censoring had taken place...
The original arcade version's Stage 6 resembled the "Cowboys and Indians" battles of old Wild West movies from the 50s and 60s. Basically, your character was up against Native American warriors armed with bows and arrows, and the boss of the stage was a Native American shaman warrior (with a stereotypical name, of course) named Chief Scalpem. In the SNES version, ALL of the Native American warriors were removed and the generic bandits from the rest of the game were put in their place, yet Chief Scalpem remained the boss of the stage.
And from what I have heard, the Japanese Super Famicom version of Sunset Riders has its Stage 6 intact, remaining the same as the original arcade version!
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Game added by Satoshi Kunsai.
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 added by Rik Hideto. Arcade added by Pseudo_Intellectual.
Additional contributors: Alaka, Rik Hideto.
Game added June 14, 2002. Last modified October 14, 2024.