EFTWR
Entertaining For The Wrong Reasons
LAW OF THE WEST (C64)
The most talented guy of the group and he's got a name like Bogas
You are Mr. Captain Sherriff Law of the West and you rule the town of Whateverthehelltownweliveinville with a kind heart/iron fist/meek disposition/drunken stupor. The whole game you'll be meeting people of the town (who you never approach, strangely enough. They all come running to you.) You choose from various pre-defined lines of speech to answer their various questions and they are impressed or scared or angry or outraged or indifferent.
This pickup line always works at Radio Shack.
Depending on the character, they might get upset enough to pull a gun on you and it turns into a gunfight.
Big deal. He was shot six times yesterday.
There are two basic types of shooters.
There's fast no-aiming shooters who will fire three or four shots before hitting you, which gives you plenty of time to shoot back.
And there's slow careful-aiming shooters who slowly raise a gun and hit you with the first shot. If the last line of speech looks like he wants to kill you, it's probably best just to draw the gun.
He probably shouldn't have told me he was going to attack me.
If you shoot any of the characters in any area, it is automatically lethal. I shot the doctor's bag and he died.
On the other hand, if any of them shoot you, whether you survive depends on two things. 1: You have talked to the doctor (he's the fourth guy you meet. The first three guys aren't likely to get you) 2: You didn't get the doctor pissed off. If you accomplished these simple tasks you are incapable of being killed.
Is there another type?

GRAPHICS
Most of the graphics aren't that bad, for a commodore game. But the background characters that wander along, and run for their life if a fight breaks out, might as well be stick figures. The same goes for the bank robbers. Sometimes someone will clue you into a bank robbery going down and you can get there to prevent it.
The bank robber doesn't look like he's in any way threatening except that he's wearing black and running around. But if you don't shoot first, you'll hear a gunshot (despite the fact that the figure is not pointing his gun) and suddenly you're bleeding.
In this town it only takes a few seconds to get to the bank by foot.

SOUND
The sounds aren't common enough to be interesting or fun. The music seems to be pretty good, if a little repetitive. Nothing incredibilific.
Nothing's more fun than being dumb with an English teacher.
And then shooting them.
SO, WHAT MAKES IT ENTERTAINING?
There are three people in the whole town who don't have guns. The school teacher, the little boy, and the doctor. With enough coaxing, you can goad anyone into a fight. And if you're lazy, you can just shoot everyone for no reason.
A little. Why do you ask?
At the end of the game it will berate you for shooting innocent people, but you technically win for surviving. So if you wanted to, you could shoot the whole town. Nobody shoots at you unless you say something to offend them, so if they ask a question and you respond by drawing your gun, they just stand there until you shoot them.
Try saying that again with a bullet in your groin.
None of them have friends who come to their rescue, and nobody catches on to the fact that you're shooting people for no reason.
So in the end, you're mouthing off to people and shooting innocent people.
It's eleven o'clock. Do you know where your children are?
Here's a hint. I killed them.
I don't think this is what the game was designed for, but I can't imagine someone playing very long before going this way. It's the only way to put a little life into it.

Obligatory Doctored Screenshot
I have no life.
The moral to this story:
Leave the revolutionary video game ideas to people who know what a video game is.
GRAPHICS 5 / 10
SOUND 5 / 10
GAMEPLAY 3 / 10
YOUR DEPUTY SAYS "WHERE THE HECK YOU BEEN, SHERIFF?" AND YOU SHOOT HIM 6 / 10
OVERALL 5 / 10 012345678910