All I remember is I shot the doctor for no reason... then when I got shot later, they shouted "Someone get the doctor!" and someone replied "We can't, the doctor is dead".
When I played this game as a young boy, I would play through the game just to see how quickly I could shoot each individual you chatted with. Like not in terms of trying to win at quick draw. I mean my friends and I would see how far the other person could walk across the screen before we shot them.
My older sister would always ask me to play this game back in the days. She loved all the characters and I loved the music and overall "Choose your own adventure " of it
TheBiggerMouth Yes of course, I'd forgotten "year/time zone" difference. Load times are not really a factor these days but yes I do remember going and getting a sandwich and so on. :)
by far, my favorite game. I can't get enough of your channel. while all my childhood friends were outside playing, i spent contless hours LOAD "*".8,1 i'n it :)
I liked how absolutely everybody in this game had a gun, including the kid and the school marm. I got to experience some weird behavior when my 1571 disk drive failed to load the next scene. The poor sheriff was stuck against the same scene for all eternity, stagecoaches passing in the background.
As a kid, I had a C64. So did my friends Dad. I remember this game specifically because he showed us it via one of those large old floppy drives and used a mouse to play it. It made it all feel so much more 'adult' and advanced as a result! Some 30 years later and I would never know the name of this game until today when it randomly showed up in my recommended thread! Nostalgic indeed...
BEST C64 Game EVER...or at least the one game I'd LOVE to see an updated remake of with a construction editor to make your own dialogue and behavior choices. The game was so funny at times, but I always wanted to make my own dialogue versions that would be even funnier. With the Internet, people could trade setups and the game could have almost unlimited replayability. A modern version could offer even more scenarios.
Ed Bogas did some great music on the C64, It wasn't as complex as Hubbard or Galway's tunes, but it was really catchy. I will forever hear the music he did for Hardball playing in my head. Great game.
In the last scene, when confronting the hired gun, once I made him believe I didn't know who he was. He replied: "So you really don't know me?" -"No. Have a nice day." -"Well, well, well... Thanks, sheriff. But I can't remember which conversation choices lead to that result.
@@LandersWorkshop Of course the funniest way was to try and provoke any person into first drawing on me. Didn't work with the kid nor the schoolmarm though.
"The most interesting game I designed was Law of the West. I incorporated a system in which the player could do bad things - could shoot lots of people - but it had consequences. And I think that was interesting - to develop a darker story. I also tried to have all the characters react differently to you, depending on what you had done previously." -- Alan Miller, designer and programmer
If I remember correctly, Accolade was founded by former members of Activision, and Alan Miller was one of them. Good game and there are multiple ways to complete it (and lose, and be killed, etc).
How’d I miss this one?! I did have some little choice games on my c128 but I can’t recall the name of them.. You can see where Telltale got their inspiration..
oh man so many memories. I remember the first time I gave the Doc a dollar, I got shot and died because he was off on a drunk, lol! That and trying to decide to try and get friendly with Miss Rose or the local schoolmarm!
Yes! He did music mostly for television, but he also did compose music for computer games, I know he did several of Accolade's early games, including this one
Yup. He also did the music for the first Hardball game, as well as 4th and Inches. He mostly did music for Accolade, but he also did the music for Murder on the Mississippi (which was from Activision)
Probably the game with the best and most detailed graphics on C64, though quite static, almost like a graphical-textual adventure. @smile221 Oh, nope, lol, that's just a reflex of the leather glove not a space between two fingers.
magicmulder apparently the C64’s screen memory was divided into a grid of cells, where each cell can contain only four separate colors. So if you look closely at any game, you’ll start to see the edges of the cells - look at the left side of the arm, for example. Sprites lived in a separate memory space, which had different rules.
It was funny if you shot them just as they walked on the screen. Also, one of the rare games where you could shoot and kill a child. I don't think you could get away with that now.
I never understod the symbols at the end. Obviously the stars are ratings. The jailed guy is the man who went quietly. The couple must be the girls you got (how is it possible to get that many?). The cheap graves are bad guys killed. I know they also had one for cash you let slip away and people you killed wrongly. But what's the money with the wings at the bottom? Did you fail somewhere?
The Money Wings at the bottom are the robberies that you missed, in the case of THIS particular game, the player missed the beginning person knowing about a train robbery (ie. yes son and its a very nice town, Ive faced the toughest hombres around, yeah! and I dont like him), and he also missed Willie knowing about a bank robbery (ie. hey! Willie would you like some candy, now tell me your secret, who is Willie?) The other icons, were how well you used your authority (the stars at the top), how many people were jailed, how lucky you were with women, and how many people you shot (both in robberies and after people pulled their gun at you are positive towards the score. The cowboy with a blood stain is how many times you got shot and the doc fixed up his flesh wound and the high classed looking graves (you were a little trigger happy) and the money bags are negative scoring. How much each icon represents in the final score, I never knew.
One day, when I make a video of I Shot Reagan by Suicidal Tendencies, I am going to include footage from this game. This I do swear. Even watching this video, I imagine the sheriff telling every person he shoots to rot in heaven, they are forgiven in hell.
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![Commodore 64 Longplay [300] Law of the West (US)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/y4snGAlq6NI/mqdefault.jpg)
12:40 the way that wagon turned around when the guns were drawn is hilarious.
Bro is not there for trouble! 🤸♀
All I remember is I shot the doctor for no reason... then when I got shot later, they shouted "Someone get the doctor!" and someone replied "We can't, the doctor is dead".
Sometimes he would be drunk too when you needed him
When I played this game as a young boy, I would play through the game just to see how quickly I could shoot each individual you chatted with. Like not in terms of trying to win at quick draw. I mean my friends and I would see how far the other person could walk across the screen before we shot them.
Depending on how evil you played, the Doctor could flat out refuse to save you.
If you sent the doctor to the saloon, and you needed him later, he'd be too drunk to save you.
@aspie182 Aren't you a little Trigger Happy?
I remember my first playthrough of this. Everyone was shot, not a question was asked.
My older sister would always ask me to play this game back in the days. She loved all the characters and I loved the music and overall "Choose your own adventure " of it
The point of the game is to be a good sheriff but as a kid it was always more fun to insult everyone and then shoot them.
absolutely!
@@Chris-wq3pe Get off the street, you painted Jezebel.
13 minutes of gameplay and "we" played over and over!
13 minutes on a PC emmulatior.
On a real C64 it took at least 30 minutes, as you have to wait almost a minute until the next meeting was loaded.
TheBiggerMouth Yes of course, I'd forgotten "year/time zone" difference. Load times are not really a factor these days but yes I do remember going and getting a sandwich and so on. :)
Oh god this was a fun game, used to play this with my Dad and Bro back in the day.
Fun times, and a lot of variety to it was well.
Really? Like what, for example? It looks really good.
by far, my favorite game. I can't get enough of your channel. while all my childhood friends were outside playing, i spent contless hours LOAD "*".8,1 i'n it :)
+Kriswixx haahaa!! me too!! so siiic!
Kriswixx Did you just talk to yourself on RUclips be commenting your own post? Wow...
haha I had the 3.5 inch floppy drive.
One of the most hilarious sockpuppet account fails I've ever seen...
@@Lee90000 You mean 5 1/4 on the Commodore 64 with the 1541 drive.
I liked how absolutely everybody in this game had a gun, including the kid and the school marm.
I got to experience some weird behavior when my 1571 disk drive failed to load the next scene. The poor sheriff was stuck against the same scene for all eternity, stagecoaches passing in the background.
Heh 1985, when computer games where made by 3 people. Damn I loved this game so much, thank god for my Epyx Fast Loader Cartridge :-D
This game was/is epic
but too easy after I got the idea how to play it.
I can remember thinking this game had incredible graphics back in the day.
I played this game for weeks without even knowing one word of the english language :D
Thanks for posting this, brings back great memories of being obsessed with Accolade on the c64. The music themes in this game were outstanding!
OMG! Used to play a pirated version. Loved this game!
Oh the memories! Thanks for uploading one of my childhood favs!
As a kid, I had a C64. So did my friends Dad. I remember this game specifically because he showed us it via one of those large old floppy drives and used a mouse to play it. It made it all feel so much more 'adult' and advanced as a result! Some 30 years later and I would never know the name of this game until today when it randomly showed up in my recommended thread! Nostalgic indeed...
BEST C64 Game EVER...or at least the one game I'd LOVE to see an updated remake of with a construction editor to make your own dialogue and behavior choices. The game was so funny at times, but I always wanted to make my own dialogue versions that would be even funnier. With the Internet, people could trade setups and the game could have almost unlimited replayability. A modern version could offer even more scenarios.
"Uhh. Hi Ms. Rose. Less teeth this time."
Sheriffs gun never ran out of bullets and I never got tired of shooting them
Thank you so much for these longplay videos !
one of the best 64 games. so much that i loved. thanks for your channel. so much awesome.
Back in the day when choices gave more different outcomes than those in mass effect :)
Ed Bogas did some great music on the C64, It wasn't as complex as Hubbard or Galway's tunes, but it was really catchy. I will forever hear the music he did for Hardball playing in my head. Great game.
Man. Those Hardball tunes randomly pop into my head for days.
Upvoted for ED BOGAS!!!!!!!
Scram, pipsqueak !!
lasse maja LOL - if I remember right, when you say that the kid comes back with "Up yours, sheriff!"
nostalgic
I remember playing this in the 1980s.
Loved this game. Wish it was part of the new C64 mini game
My young daughters favorite c64 game (narrowly edged out Henry's House)
One of my favorite C-64 games.
I used to love playing this on my c64
I had this great game on original floppy for the C64 :D Was my favorite game in the whole world for a time :)
“Hey, Willie, would you like some candy?” certainly would not fly today
Only in the Wild West would a kid can me out of the saloon by himself.
brilliant game, thanks for this.
used to play this for hours, never making it to the end if I remember correctly.
I just realized after 40 years why ive always asked people if they had a burr under their saddle, when they were angry.....wow
In the last scene, when confronting the hired gun, once I made him believe I didn't know who he was. He replied: "So you really don't know me?" -"No. Have a nice day." -"Well, well, well... Thanks, sheriff. But I can't remember which conversation choices lead to that result.
@@LandersWorkshop Of course the funniest way was to try and provoke any person into first drawing on me.
Didn't work with the kid nor the schoolmarm though.
LOAD"LAWOFTHEWEST",8,1 RUN
Back when you could actually rid yourself of obnoxious kid npc's in advance.
But it was more hilarious to get the kid to narc with some candy.
Even more fun to get the kid to draw.
There's one set of responses where the kid says "Up yours, sheriff" - first time I saw that I cried laughing!
Loved this game!
I love the music in this game, and It's kind of like a tect adventure in a lot of ways, with out the "go N E S W pick up item" ect...
Man, I was looking for that game for how long! Thanks! I got here by coincidence because I was looking for the c64 game "a fistful of bucks"
Awesome!
the original grand theft ...ummm stage coach
Red Dead Revolver: The Prequel
I must have played every possible scenario 100 times.
I still play this game 👍🏽
Same. I was 5 years old too :D
"The most interesting game I designed was Law of the West.
I incorporated a system in which the player could do bad
things - could shoot lots of people - but it had consequences.
And I think that was interesting - to develop a darker story.
I also tried to have all the characters react differently to you,
depending on what you had done previously."
-- Alan Miller, designer and programmer
I used to love this game crazily back in the day. The best graphics I saw on C64.
Not a surprise for me :) It's perfect...
Me too. I listen to C64 and Amiga themes frequently.
If I remember correctly, Accolade was founded by former members of Activision, and Alan Miller was one of them. Good game and there are multiple ways to complete it (and lose, and be killed, etc).
First Red Dead Redemption:)
Me too.
Music by Ed bogas. He did the music for Garfield. Married to desserie gotyee
*“Gamblin’ is the devil’s way to poverty.”*
I never forgot that line from this game. I’m 50 years old.
'You painted jezebel!'
thanks 4 not talking over it and waiting long enough 4 us 2 read what the other responses r
How’d I miss this one?! I did have some little choice games on my c128 but I can’t recall the name of them.. You can see where Telltale got their inspiration..
We found it funny that shooting the doctor's bag would also kill him.
Funny Game. More ways to choose as some game today
Great game. A head of its time in my opinion 👍👍
the music man...
One of my old favorites!
I mostly died at the black bandit, never made it beyond the gambler…
haha I remember playing this, good times
MetalJesusRocks doesn’t know nothing about games on the Commodore 64. He says this is a hidden gem.
Damned we played this one a lot, trying a bunch of different combinations...
@10:29 Who knew Foreplay by: Boston would be such a good theme to put in a Western themed game??
Geez! Another game I'd forgotten about! Love the music on these old games......(Is it my eyesight or does he has 5 fingers & a thumb?)
Hey, don't shoot me!!!
Getting Willy to narc was so hilarious.
oh man so many memories. I remember the first time I gave the Doc a dollar, I got shot and died because he was off on a drunk, lol! That and trying to decide to try and get friendly with Miss Rose or the local schoolmarm!
Fantastic game! El hombre 02:23 is my favourite.
I remember shooting the Doctor, and then, the game got stuck and I just kept getting palette swapped doctors until the game ended.
Loved this game...even if the load time between scenes took forever. I do mean forever.
You obviously didn't have an epyx fast load cartridge
As open world as C64 would get
4:31 Music sounds like trouble
This game had it all: Simping, pimping, killing & chilling, while bandits come to town & be illing.
You choose your Final Destination.
Ed Bogas? Is he the same guy that used to do music for the Garfield tv series?
Yes! He did music mostly for television, but he also did compose music for computer games, I know he did several of Accolade's early games, including this one
Yup. He also did the music for the first Hardball game, as well as 4th and Inches. He mostly did music for Accolade, but he also did the music for Murder on the Mississippi (which was from Activision)
Probably the game with the best and most detailed graphics on C64, though quite static, almost like a graphical-textual adventure.
@smile221 Oh, nope, lol, that's just a reflex of the leather glove not a space between two fingers.
Lagash1973 // That was when they found out how to fake more shades of a color by using some kind of mesh pattern. Hardball also used this.
magicmulder apparently the C64’s screen memory was divided into a grid of cells, where each cell can contain only four separate colors. So if you look closely at any game, you’ll start to see the edges of the cells - look at the left side of the arm, for example.
Sprites lived in a separate memory space, which had different rules.
what a cute nice game!
OMG YES!!!!!!!!
Alabamian town. The sheriff has six fingers :D
Hahah the music...
It was funny if you shot them just as they walked on the screen. Also, one of the rare games where you could shoot and kill a child. I don't think you could get away with that now.
I remember this game. I used to say the wrong things just to practice my shooting.
I'm gonna be rich!
me too !! :D
great game. when i was a kid myself i loved to talk to willie until he said waaaaaaa! waaaaaa! waaaaaaaaaaa! :D:D:D
Thncks 4 the post :) Cubex-marc-2oo :)
Aren't you the Mexicali Kid!! 🤠
Si senor
Saxysaboy77 Number of crimes committed while you were playing.
Console peasants have Red Dead Redemption, but we have Law of the West!
damn straight.
Okay. Whatever.
Just noticed that the sheriff has 5 fingers...and a thumb. What the christ.
Lol I just noticed that as well after about 35 years
Could it be that the smallest finger looks like two fingers because of the shine mark on the glove?
You can shoot the characters in the far background
No you cannot
Yes you can. They don’t die, they just go faster
@@sliat1981 you are shooting AT them- you are not actually shooting them....
Jim Rowell yes you shoot them. Doesn’t mean they die
@@sliat1981 can you post a video of that?
I never understod the symbols at the end. Obviously the stars are ratings. The jailed guy is the man who went quietly. The couple must be the girls you got (how is it possible to get that many?). The cheap graves are bad guys killed. I know they also had one for cash you let slip away and people you killed wrongly. But what's the money with the wings at the bottom? Did you fail somewhere?
The Money Wings at the bottom are the robberies that you missed, in the case of THIS particular game, the player missed the beginning person knowing about a train robbery (ie. yes son and its a very nice town, Ive faced the toughest hombres around, yeah! and I dont like him), and he also missed Willie knowing about a bank robbery (ie. hey! Willie would you like some candy, now tell me your secret, who is Willie?)
The other icons, were how well you used your authority (the stars at the top), how many people were jailed, how lucky you were with women, and how many people you shot (both in robberies and after people pulled their gun at you are positive towards the score. The cowboy with a blood stain is how many times you got shot and the doc fixed up his flesh wound and the high classed looking graves (you were a little trigger happy) and the money bags are negative scoring. How much each icon represents in the final score, I never knew.
Best game until Skyrim!
One day, when I make a video of I Shot Reagan by Suicidal Tendencies, I am going to include footage from this game. This I do swear. Even watching this video, I imagine the sheriff telling every person he shoots to rot in heaven, they are forgiven in hell.
I got killed every time 😭
I've got a secret I won't tell!
*Shoots Willie*
How do I download it to my computer?
+I_Did_Too thank you so much
+I_Did_Too thanks your the best
+I_Did_Too yeah me too
+Lord Whitenorth this is better than Red Dead
i really don't care what you think
Haha. Loved this game. We would shoot everyone regardless of what was said. But the game would mess up all the time at Willy the kid.
Law of the West on IOS!!!! 🤞
Where's c64 loading times😂