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Sunday, January 13, 2008...
Electronic GAME: Western Bar.
When Drunk-looking Cowboys were cool.

Casio's Western Bar: (from left) Closed, Open and Display Off.


I flipped through a local heritage site called yesterday.sg and found a part of me that was a part of them. A game called Western Bar, an old Casio LCD Game Handheld that has been with my sister (then, me) for the most part of our lives. It's a Western shooter game. Like yesterday.sg puts it, it's really noisy too, so there's some tape stuck on to muffle the sound. Thankfully, I found out today that ours is still a working lil' machine (circa 1990). It just needed batteries. But the 'Start/On' button is spoilt and you have to reset the batteries to rev it up again.

The game starts off with you as a beer-wielding cowboy in a bar. You have to shoot through glasses, grog jug-bottles and plates flying across the bar as the crazed (bored) bartender throws them. Shooting a glass, bottle and plate with a sigle shot gains you a combo score. To make things interesting, the only other 2 patrons will get annoyed by your shooting and start throwing apples and hats at you. If you're hit, you get a MISS. 3 MISSes and the game ends. In later levels, a stick of TNT will come flying in from outside. Shoot it and it explodes. MISS!

Soon after, footsteps will be heard. A burly looking nogooder steps into the bar. Showdown! You crouch behind a up-heaved table as he hides behind the counter. He comes out and shoots your shield (table) and a piece flies off (3 pieces before you're defenceless). Shoot him before he does three times and he runs for it. Hurray, Cowboy!

That's basically it. I remember playing it with gusto. We only had a Game Boy brick too heavy to lug around back then. Those were the days...

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