Jaleco was actually making games for the Famicom Disk System well past the point when a lot of other developers stopped doing it due to the sturdy cartridges holding more than the unreliable disks as well as more games getting battery back-up and password save systems. Not surprisingly, this is one of those games that you can get through in less than 30 minutes, even if you don't know Japanese.
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Big Challenge! Gun Fighter is one of four games in Jaleco's Big Challenge! series exclusive to the Japan-only Famicom Disk System. Here, you play as a cowboy, and you shoot down all sorts of bad guys while taking on some tough customers that are taking over the Wild West.
Level 1
Left and Right moves you left and right, Down ducks, A jumps and B shoots. Holding A will give you a little more hangtime than if you just tap it. At the bottom of the screen, you'll see your current health, current amount of money, current amount of bullets and the weapon that you currently have equipped. The number at the bottom-right corner of the weapons window indicates how many enemies you have left to kill before you can fight the enemy boss. If you make it to the end of the stage before reaching that enemy quota, you'll start the level over to fight more enemies and get more bullets. Once you reach the end with zero enemies left to kill, you'll face the level boss. Between the health and the weapons windows are your current amount of lives. You start with three, and if you lose them all, it's game over.
Holding Down and A will allow to switch weapons as well as pause the game. Press A to unpause.
The man you meet at the beginning will give you ten bullets for $50. By shooting down enemies, you can get medicine to refill three units of health, bullets for the gun or bags of money worth $10 each. When you shoot at enemy, wait for them to stop flashing before shooting and hitting them again, or else you will waste bullets.
Enemies include guys running around with guns, guys throwing barrels, snipers whose bullets will follow where you are when they shoot at you, and boxers that rush up to you and punch you.
If the tops of any crates are broken, do not stand on those crates. Those are basically spikes that will hurt you the longer you stand on them. There are also spikes that pop up on the ground, too, so watch out for those. If there's anything in any of the stages that looks like odd ground or spikes, don't stand in it as a rule of thumb.
If you talk to the man at the beginning again after looping through the level once, you'll be able to buy ten bullets from him for $50. Just press B to advance the text, then press A to buy the bullets or B to refuse.
To beat the boss, you'll need to press B to activate the target reticle, then move the target reticle over to the man's chest and shoot at him. If the black leather vest flashes, you got a hit in. Whenever you shoot, the target reticle moves to a random location above the boss' head, and you'll need to re-aim before you can fire at the boss again. If you're both quick and accurate, you can get through the boss battles relatively quickly and without harm. You'll also get $50 for beating the boss here.
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