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4. Sunset Riders

When it came to four-player co-op action in the arcade, nothing could touch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Of course, when that cabinet was likely full of older kids who refused to give you a turn, there was always Sunset Riders as a more-than-worthy consolation prize.

The side scrolling, run-and-gun shoot-‘em-up from Konami was loaded with a colorful cast of characters, fun set pieces and more political incorrectness than you could shake a stick at. Much of what was considered controversial at the time, like raging Native Americans and scantily clad barfly woman were removed from the home ports of the game.

The Sunset Riders game engine was reskined in 1992 for a coin-op version of Wild West C.O.W-Boys of Moo Mesa, a popular Saturday morning cartoon from the early 1990s.
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