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combination of buildings and fight the bandits in the same sequence. The exception after killing some of the bandits in the street is the required encounter with "Wildcard" Willy McVee in the saloon; any subsequent attempts to leave will trigger the last few duels, culminating in the showdown with Evil Eb. The one optional duel involves Immortal Isaac, a knife-thrower concealed in shadows in an upstairs room in the saloon.
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that he is not Billy-Bob and came to town to meet his sister, believing he is in a town called Dodge Gulch. Eb tells him in turn that Dodge Gulch is at another train station 20 miles away. No Name spares Eb because of their mutual misunderstanding, and the two become friends as they go into the saloon for whiskey.
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After killing every outlaw except Evil Eb, No Name confronts Eb himself but only shoots off his hat. Eb, having dropped his gun in surprise and resigning to his defeat, asks No Name to kill him, believing him to be a man called Billy-Bob, whom he had earlier challenged to a duel. No Name explains
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reveals that the attacker was the youngest brother of Evil Eb, the leader of the Hole-in-the-Head Gang, and hints that Eb will send his bandits after No Name. No Name then explores each of the town's buildings, either by interacting with the residents or by playing minigames, and duels with gang
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The duels with the gang members are typically triggered by entering and leaving buildings. However, the order in which the buildings are entered and the activities that can be done in each have no effect on when, or in which order, the bandits appear; the player can simply enter and leave any
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was more positive, stating that the game is "let down by its lack of real lasting gameplay, but the interactive elements and the fact that there is so much humour and so many hidden sequences lift it above being just another game."
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To trigger an alternate ending, No Name can leave on the train that brought him into town at any point prior to his encounter with the bandit "Wildcard" Willy McVee in the saloon. As the train departs, a small boy yells,
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who came up with idea when he saw a friend wearing a pair of cowboy boots. "My mind was turned towards the whole genre of Spaghetti Western," he explained. "It was begging for me to do something with it."
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The gameplay is divided into two main forms: a point-and-click format with menus containing multiple options, followed by short animated scenes based on the player's selections; and a
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did speculate on the developer's intentions, he otherwise opined how it was hard to tell if Delta 4 deliberately conceived the game as a parody or not.
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where the player must click a moving drink that the bartender in the saloon slides towards No Name so he can catch it.
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Retrospective reviews of the game noted its surreal humour and perceived lack of content; while Tanner Fox of
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The game had a mostly negative critical reception, including a D+ from
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If the player dies at any point, they must restart from the beginning.
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Index


Developer(s)
Delta 4
Publisher(s)
Director(s)
Fergus McNeill
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
Platform(s)
Commodore CDTV
MS-DOS
Genre(s)
Action-adventure
point-and-click
Western
action-adventure
point-and-click
Delta 4
Commodore CDTV
MS-DOS
American frontier
John Wayne
unnamed man with a cigarette
"Come back, Shane!"
light gun
three-card monte
Chase the Ace
quick time event
Fergus McNeill
Amiga Format

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