Cowboy Kid is a video game for the NES

Nintendo Entertainment System

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 platform released in January . In 1991, it was released in Japan as . It was published by Romstar

Romstar

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. It is inspired by Konami

Konami

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's Ganbare Goemon

Ganbare Goemon

, known as Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Mystical Ninja, and Goemon in North America and the PAL region, is a long-running video game series produced by Konami....

series.

Summary

The player controls the role of a young gunslinger

Gunslinger

Gunfighter, also gunslinger , is a 20th century word, used in cinema or literature, referring to men in the American Old West who had gained a reputation as being dangerous with a gun...

 who travels the land fighting villain

Villain

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s and playing minigame

Minigame

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s. The main game play involves you moving around the towns horizontally collecting gold by hitting chest while killing the bad guys at the same time. There is also an RPG element where people have to be visited in town

Town

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s for information. Once a player has acquired the required gear to be made sherrif, an outlaw

Outlaw

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 must be killed for bonus money. A shooting range

Shooting range

A shooting range or firing range is a specialized facility designed for firearms practice. Each facility is typically overseen by one or more supervisory personnel, called variously a range master or "RSO – Range Safety Officer" in the United States or a range conducting officer or "RCO" in the UK...

 is included where players have to shoot down enemy targets while avoiding the targets that represent innocent bystander

Civilian

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s.

External links

• Cowboy Kid at MobyGames
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• Japanese-to-English Translation of Famicom games