Getting around is a breeze, and your character and their world are pretty versatile. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) It's tough to get through unscathed – and the bosses have plenty of tricks up their sleeves – but it's eminently doable, which is refreshing in the often painful world of arcade gaming. It's concise to a fault, with no level outlasting its welcome and the difficulty pitched surprisingly reasonably for a coin-op game interestingly, the SNES port back in the day was actually more difficult in places. Set pieces are varied and exciting, seeing your chosen vaquero run atop a herd of stampeding cattle, ride on horseback alongside a thundering steam train, or ascend a mountain to reach a Native American chief's settlement. We were a little surprised that Sunset Riders has made it to the Switch in an unedited form, given its cheerfully un-PC genre pastiche and stereotyped characters such as Chief Scalpem and Paco Loco – but here it is, all present and correct. One of Konami's best games ever and produced at the height of the company's powers, Sunset Riders is a multiplayer blast through a world inspired by the Spaghetti Westerns of yore we're talking cowpokes, saloons, can-can girls and a fistful of dynamite. The arcade original almost hit Xbox 360 as part of its ill-fated Game Room line, but this is the first time the original arcade version of Sunset Riders has been playable at home – short of buying your own cabinet.Īnd what a treat it is. Not officially available anywhere since making its arcade bow (outside of the well-intentioned but obviously weaker home ports on the SNES and Mega Drive, at least), Konami's phenomenally good Western-themed run n' gun Sunset Riders has finally been re-released as part of Hamster's superb Arcade Archives line.

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