Lost In Translation/Gun.Smoke

About The Game
Gun.Smoke is wild west-themed vertically scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game, in which the player takes the role of Billy; a young Sheriff charged with hunting down and killing a number of infamous 'Wanted' outlaws.

Each level is packed with gun-toting bandits and the Sheriff must shoot his way through the stage, before finally taking on the wanted outlaw 'boss' character at the end. Each outlaw wields a special weapon unique to them, such as a Winchester rifle, knives, darts or boomerangs.

Shooting the barrels that litter the levels reveals power-ups such as boots (for extra speed), rifles (for increased range) and bullets (for rapid fire). The game's 3 directional fire buttons (for firing left, right or ahead) can be combined (pressed Simultaneously) to create a total of 8 different firing directions.

Trivia
Released in November 1985.

Licensed to Romstar for US manufacture and distribution.

Gun.Smoke was available as conversion kits (from Romstar - called 'quick-kits') for "Pac-Man" and "Centipede".

Although it shares the same title, the game isn't based on the long-running American TV series Gunsmoke, regardless of the fact that both have a western-theme. The dot in Gun.Smoke is there so as not to breach trademark.

Jaime Guzman holds the official record for this game with 1,465,250 points.

Alfa Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Capcom Game Music - 28XA-94) on 25/08/1986.

Updates

 * World version :
 * You can enter 3 chars for your initials.


 * Japanese version (but English text though) :
 * You can enter 8 chars for your initials.


 * US version 1 (licenced to Romstar) :
 * You can enter 3 chars for your initials.


 * US version 2 (licenced to Romstar) :
 * You can enter 3 chars for your initials.
 * Some code has been added for the 'Lives' Dip Switch that replaces the 'Demonstation' one (so demonstration is always OFF).
 * Year is 1986 instead of 1985.
 * High score is 110000 instead of 100000.
 * Levels 3 and 6 are swapped.

An Interesting Bug
When you're on level 2, make sure you have a horse when you kill Roy Knife. Once he is dead, walk over his corpse and your horse will be killed. Roy raises from the dead as a sort of indestructible zombie. You can shoot him as much as you like, but he won't die. In this way you can play until you get tired of it.

Series

 * 1) Gun.Smoke (1985)
 * 2) Desperado 2 (1989, Amstrad CPC)

Staff

 * From Hiscore Table:
 * Shi2Kura
 * ?Sakura?
 * Ota=Big5


 * Music By:
 * Ayako Mori (Kura<3Aya)


 * Producer:
 * Kihaji Okamoto

Ports

 * Consoles :
 * Nintendo Famicom (1988)
 * Nintendo Famicom Disk (1988)
 * Sony PlayStation (1998, "Capcom Generation 4")
 * Sony PlayStation (1998, "Capcom Generations - Blazing Guns")
 * Sega Saturn (1998, "Capcom Generation 4")
 * Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, "Capcom Classics Collection")
 * Microsoft XBOX (2005, "Capcom Classics Collection")
 * Sony PSP (2006, "Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded")


 * Computers :
 * Commodore C64 (1987)
 * Amstrad CPC (1987, "Desperado - Gun.Smoke")
 * Sinclair Spectrum (1988)
 * PC [CD-ROM] (1999, "Capcom Arcade Hits 3")