Badlands

Badlands, Developed and released by Konami in 1984 on laserdisc for the MSX. An Arcade version was released in the same year.

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Author(s): MadMattyMadMatty
System: MSX
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Publication Date: 11/09/2023
YouTube Release: 31/12/2031
Duration: 00:22:50
File Size: 291.02 MB (298000.00 KB)
Downloads: 93 downloads
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Player's Review

From Wiki:-
"Badlands follows a cowboy named Buck seeking vengeance on a gang of outlaws and its leader, Landolf, for the murder of his wife and children Badlands is a first-person shooter action-adventure video game set in a wild west fantasy world. The game's arcade cabinet consists of one large "shoot" button. Badlands' gameplay consists of animated cutscenes, requiring players to shoot and react to environmental hazards and enemies. The game uses a life system, granting the player three lives upon starting. Losing all lives ends the game. The aim of the game is to eliminate outlaws and claim their bounties."

The game plays like many other fmv shooting games but is overall simpler than most in that there is no aiming involved, just shoot at the right time. However, it is important to wait until your enemy has drawn their gun else you will be killed or arrested. At the start of the game you can choose a skill level which dictates how exact you have to be with your timing.

There are nine stages. After completing them, the game loops at a high difficulty level. I'm not sure, but you may have to complete two loops in order to get the opportunity to claim all the bounties as in this playthrough, the game did not offer the chance to claim them in the first loop.

00:00:00 Loading / Attract Mode
00:01:50 Quick play
00:03:10 First run
00:11:34 Second Run (loop)
00:22:00 A couple more deaths