Dust: A Tale of the Wired West
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| Developer(s) | Cyberflix |
| Publisher(s) | GTE Entertainment |
| Platform(s) | IBM PC compatible, Macintosh |
| Release | USA 1995 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Dust: A Tale Of The Wired West is an American computer game made for the PC and the Macintosh. It was released on June 30, 1995 and was produced by Cyberflix and published by GTE Entertainment.
The game is a point and click adventure game in which the player, playing a character called The Stranger, travels around a virtual old western desert town in the New Mexico desert in 1882. In addition to the main gameplay, there are several minigames in Dust, including blackjack and poker games where the player can choose to play honestly or cheat, and a shooting range helps prepare the player for a later segment of the game.
The characters encountered in Dust are rendered by way of photographs of professional actors given limited animation in sync with dialogue. A later game produced by the same company, Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, uses the same technique and contains several references to Dust, including a reappearance of the character Buick Riviera. Dust: A Tale of the Wired West: The Official Strategy Guide (Prima Publishing, 1995) was written by Steve Schwartz in cooperation with Cyberflix.
Set in 1882, the game opens by introducing the mysterious protagonist "the Stranger," who is playing cards with a fictionized version of Billy the Kid in an unknown town in the American West. The Stranger discovers that The Kid is cheating, and The Kid draws his gun and begins firing. Managing to wound the Kid by stabbing him with an ornate Plains Indian dagger, the Stranger manages to run out of the saloon and escape. In the early morning hours, the Stranger finds himself in the desert town of Diamondback, New Mexico, whose inhabitants treat him with suspicion. The Stranger discovered that there is a target range nearby, a general store, a saloon, a brothel, and a mining camp with a cockfighting ring (but the mining camp cannot be visited). The Mayor's daughter, Marie Macintosh, recognizes the Stranger, although she still does not mention the Stranger's real name. It is revealed that the Stranger apparently has some renown for fighting in the Comanche Wars. Ms. Macintosh says that she knows the Stranger was a comrade of J. E. B. Stuart, and that she knows the Stranger has killed many people. The Stranger remarks that although that is true, at least he is not a hypocrite.
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