Tin Star (video game)

Tin Star
Developer(s)Software Creations
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Producer(s)Minoru Arakawa
Designer(s)Marcus Lindblom
Ste and John Pickford[1]
Programmer(s)John Buckley
Artist(s)Philip Bretherton
Writer(s)Malcolm McGookin
Composer(s)Chris Jojo
Matthew Cannon
Suddi Raval
Platform(s)Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Release
Genre(s)Rail shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Tin Star is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Software Creations and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It was originally released in North America in November 1994. Starring anthropomorphic robot characters, it follows a seven-day adventure of the titular sheriff who fights the criminal Bad Oil Gang from taking over the town of East Driftwood.

It includes both third and first-person stages, and players can control the reticle either with a standard SNES controller, Super Scope, or the SNES Mouse. It is the third Software Creations game to be published by Nintendo, after Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball (1994)[2] and (only in Europe) Plok! (1993). The game received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the presentation, especially the graphics and humor, but criticism of the monotonous gameplay and lack of challenge.

  1. ^ Ste and John Pickford. "Softography - Tinstar". The Pickford Bros. Zee-3. Archived from the original on January 11, 2020. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
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