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Outside Japan it was ported and released on the GENESIS, the overseas Mega Drive, in 1992, and on the SNES, the overseas Super Famicom, in 1993. In the GENESIS version the selectable characters were cut to 2, Billy and Cormano, and the stage layout was also changed considerably, with bosses removed, so that it is close to a new title in substance.
The "rather splendid" Super NES version was given an overall score of 87% by Dan Jevons from Super Play, who described it as "another winner from Konami's stable".
Hobby Consolas gave the scores of 86% to the Super NES version and 78% for the Sega Mega Drive version, while Mean Machines Sega rated the latter as 84%, noting it as "surprisingly good".
Nick Gibson from Sega-16 rated the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis port a 7 out of 10, while it was rated 80% by Arcade Attack.
In Japan, the arcade game was first released on July 9, 1991.
Sunset Riders made its North American debut at the September 1991 Amusement & Music Operators Association (AMOA) show in Las Vegas.
The home versions were only released in North America and Europe.
The "rather splendid" Super NES version was given an overall score of 87% by Dan Jevons from Super Play, who described it as "another winner from Konami's stable".
Hobby Consolas gave the scores of 86% to the Super NES version and 78% for the Sega Mega Drive version, while Mean Machines Sega rated the latter as 84%, noting it as "surprisingly good".
In 2018, Complex listed the game 36th in their "The Best Super Nintendo Games of All Time."
Outside Japan it was ported and released on the GENESIS, the overseas Mega Drive, in 1992, and on the SNES, the overseas Super Famicom, in 1993. In the GENESIS version the selectable characters were cut to 2, Billy and Cormano, and the stage layout was also changed considerably, with bosses removed, so that it is close to a new title in substance.
Sunset Riders made its North American debut at the September 1991 Amusement & Music Operators Association (AMOA) show in Las Vegas.
Outside Japan it was ported and released on the GENESIS, the overseas Mega Drive, in 1992, and on the SNES, the overseas Super Famicom, in 1993. In the GENESIS version the selectable characters were cut to 2, Billy and Cormano, and the stage layout was also changed considerably, with bosses removed, so that it is close to a new title in substance.
In Japan, Game Machine listed it on their December 15, 1991 issue as being the third most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
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