Hired Guns: Your memories (plus some fun fan-created stuff!)

[Cherno]

After 30 years you still learn something new about this game...

I just read over some Youtube comments of a Hired Guns gameplay clip and some user mentioned that the Christina cheat allows you to choose the same character multiple times. Lo and behold, it works. You can choose CIM for all four slots and play with him through a mission

[RetroPassionUK]

I learnt it was never on the Atari ST (i thought i played it on an ST) and if you have 2Mb chip ram you get extra sounds lol that was in the last 8 years!

[Amiga Lifestyle]

Originally Posted by rsn8887

How did you all play this game in multiplayer?

Using multiple mice?

Or using mouse for one player and joystick for the other?

Did anyone here ever play this game with four players?

Did you use four joysticks or four mice or how did you do it?

Was this a co-op or deathmatch game? Or both?

I owned the original back in the day but only played it alone. It reminded me of Captive somehow. I never liked Captive because the 3d screen was small, the graphics not very good, and the levels hard and random. I also never liked Hired Guns very much because it reminded me of Captive, but maybe I just didn't understand it. It seemed very hard to play to me.

Its a pretty difficult game. We played the most two players with a mouse and two characters each. We did arrange four player games a few times but we only ever did it as improv death match. You get x seconds to run from the starting area and then its grenades and sentry guns everywhere.

[CCCP alert]

All I remember about this game is I really liked one of the icons on the (AF?) coverdisk demo lol