Tombstones

T O M B S T O N E S

  -Retirement Day-


CREDITS


Programming by Kåre "Docster" Johansen

Graphics and Music by Roy "Rotteroy" Widding

Playtesters/Help by Eric "Majikeyric" Hilaire, Vidar "Drumtex" Bang, Ruben "Scroll" Spaans, Anders "Rage" Rodahl, and Rune "Sparkler" Spaans

Instructions page made by Eric "Majikeyric" Hilaire

Tap & D64 loader system by: ???

Developed in 2017 by Megastyle for the Commodore 64

Released by Reset Magazine Staff for the coverdisk of Reset magazine number XX.



THE STORY


Our hero - EL GRINGO - is known to be the fastest and most dangerous gunslinger in the wild, wild west.

But he is tired of the killing, and wants to retire from his gunslinger career to settle down with his true love.

However, having this stellar reputation tempt gunslingers from the whole wide west to seek him down for duels!

Will it be possible for EL GRINGO to survive this retirement day for him to get to his true love?



AIM OF THE GANE


To get to his true love, EL GRINGO has to gun down 6 gunslingers on 3 different stages: The Desert, The City and The Graveyard.

Each gunslinger is slightly faster than the previous, and EL GRINGO has to summon all his reaction, speed, and will to survive.



HOW TO PLAY


Press space to start the game. Place your fingers on the keyboard while you GET READY.

When a random character is displayed on the screen, you have to press the same character on the keyboard to draw and shoot your gun!

If you are too slow, or you press the wrong character, you will get shot and die.

To quit the game and return to the intro press "RUN/STOP"



TRAINER


You can press "F8" to activate/de-activate the trainer. This can only be done on the intro screen. If the trainer is activated, the border changes color to

dark grey. The trainer gives you full invincibility and you will be able to continue playing even if you get shot.

Keep in mind that a cheater is not worthy any points on the  hall of fame, so the score will remain at ZERO points as long as you have the trainer activated.

You can always return to the intro by pressing "RUN/STOP" and deactivate the trainer.

If you have a disk-drive or you play the D64 version on an emulator, the game has an built-in high score saver.



GREETINGS


We send out our deepest respect to the ones keeping the C64 gaming scene alive:

Out Of Order Softworks, Protovision, Psytronik, Pond Software, Polyplay, Cronosoft, Covert Bitops, The New Dimensions,
RGCD, Sputnik World, Rod & Emu, Paulko 64, Geir Straume, Mr. SID, Software Of Sweden, Dr. Wuro Industries, and all we forgot.

A special greeting go to the staff in both Freeze 64 and Reset Magazine for their great covering of the c64 game scene!


- Megastyle, June 2017