What is "gunfright"

Gunfright is an arcade adventure video game developed by Ultimate Play the Game and published by U.S. Gold. It was first released for the ZX Spectrum in 1985 and was ported to the Amstrad CPC and the MSX later that year. In the game, the player takes the role of a sheriff in the town of Black Rock and is tasked with eliminating outlaws who are scattered throughout the settlement.

The game was developed directly after Nightshade, and re-uses the latter game's Filmation II game engine that allows images to be rendered without overlapping each other. The game received mostly positive reviews upon release; praise was directed at the graphics and presentation, but criticism was directed at the game's similarity to Nightshade. It was later included in Rare Replay, Rare's 2015 Xbox One retrospective compilation.