Express Raider

Express Raider is a video game in the action genre developed by Data East Corporation and published by U.S. Gold Ltd. originally released in 1987. It is currently playable on Commodore 64.

Your goal in life is to be the best train robber in the Wild West, a multi-stage task. Your character has plenty of attacking kicks and punches to use on anyone who gets in his way, starting with the local banker, and then some coyotes roaming the plains, who are easier to dodge than to kill. After this, you find yourself on top of the train, attacking a succession of guards in one-on-one dueling blows, each of which must be won flawlessly within the time limit to avoid losing a life. Many of them shoot at you, so dodge their shots as you attack them. The game offers a practice mode, in which you have 32 lives to try to improve your skills, and a 'normal' mode in which you have unlimited continues as long as you manage to reach the high score table with each continue; in this mode, as in the 'advanced' mode in which you must always start over from scratch, you have 5 lives.

Express Raider is available at a reduced price on the following websites and is no longer abandonware.