Town With No Name

About Town With No Name

In the American frontier, a drifter with a John Wayne-esque voice referred to as "the Man with No Name" gets off a train at the station outside the Town with No Name. Upon entering the town, he is confronted by a gunman. Once No Name kills him, an unnamed man with a cigarette reveals that the attacker was the youngest brother of Evil Eb, the leader of the Hole-in-the-Head Gang, and hints that Eb will send his bandits after No Name. No Name then explores each of the town's buildings, either by interacting with the residents or by playing minigames, and duels with gang members usually after leaving the buildings.

After killing every outlaw except Evil Eb, No Name confronts Eb himself but only shoots off his hat. Eb, having dropped his gun in surprise and resigning to his defeat, asks No Name to kill him, believing he is a man called Billy-Bob, whom he had earlier challenged to a duel. No Name explains that he is not Billy-Bob and came to town to meet his sister, believing he is in a town called Dodge Gulch. Eb tells him in turn that Dodge Gulch is at another train station 20 miles away. No Name spares Eb because of their mutual misunderstanding, and they go into the saloon for whiskey.

If the player chooses to leave town via train at any point prior to No Name's encounter with the bandit "Wildcard" Willy McVee in the saloon, an alternate ending will take place. As the train departs, a small boy yells, "Come back, Shane!", prompting No Name to shoot the child and reply, "My name's not Shane, kid!", after which the train flies off into outer space.

The gameplay is divided into two main forms: a point-and-click format with menus containing multiple options, followed by short animated scenes based on the player's selections; and a light gun-type interface where the player must quickly shoot a target before the target shoots back, ending in defeat. Minigames include three-card monte, Chase the Ace, and a quick time event where the player must click a moving drink that the bartender in the saloon slides towards No Name so he can catch it.

The duels with the gang members are typically triggered by entering and leaving buildings. However, the order in which the buildings are entered and the activities that can be done in each have no effect on when, or in which order, the bandits appear; the player can simply enter and leave any combination of buildings and fight the bandits in the same sequence. The exception after killing some of the bandits in the street is the required encounter with "Wildcard" Willy McVee in the saloon; any subsequent attempts to leave will trigger the last few duels, culminating in the showdown with Evil Eb. The one optional duel involves Immortal Isaac, a knife-thrower concealed in shadows in an upstairs room in the saloon. When bandits are killed, their wanted posters in the jailhouse are marked with red X's, with the exception of Isaac, whose poster is marked with a question mark. If the player dies at any point, they must restart from the beginning.