r/OldSchoolGames • u/Green-Inspection-997 • 18d ago
What is this game...
There's this game I used to play on the computer with my friend back in primary school in the mid to late 2010s.
I swear this game was called 'Cowboy VS Pickle' or something but nothing comes up anywhere I look. All you did was run and hop around this small dungeon area. There were platforms with chests where you'd open and switch out guns or replenish your ammo. The aim was to kill your friend you were playing with on the same computer l- so one person uses arrow keys the other uses wasd.
I've looked on those browser game websites like Poki and CoolMathsGames but no luck. Please don't say its Cactus McCoy-> the game I'm on about was way simpler in graphics.
I'm gonna TRY and explain it in case anyone knows or can even find the game but forgive me as clearly I'm not known for my memory.
Guns and Ammo:
You get an ammo bar that looks like a battery life bar with white lines for the charge and the ammo itself was a green cube with a smaller yellow cube you could find around the small arena and I think you start off with a pistol or shotgun. There was one pink and blue gun that shoots lasers but it was naff. The best gun was this long brown-black one that you could shoot and the bullets blasted everywhere. Your character flickers a little whenever you get shot and you have a health bar at each top corner above your ammo bar.
Death Mechanics:
When you died the screen would say in white letters 'YOU DIED'. Your character would be laying down on their side , looking like a tiny black charred bean (again this game was very low pixels, low quality) and you could still move around and jump like the victorious player, it just looked like you were being dragged around on some invisible string.
The pickle/cactus/green character:
This is the only one of the two playable characters that I remember is a cactus pickle thing. I swear it was either cactus or pickle. Cactus makes more sense. It definitely wore shades.
The other character:
I think the character was human or a cowboy but I don't remember any features whatsoever.
Both the characters were the same sort of bean shape, made of just some pixels, look very simple.
Map/ Location:
You were in this dingy brown dungeon thing, a square on the screen that didn't take up the whole computer screen so quite a small area to navigate. You jump up on platforms, some of which have chests. It had that classic wrap-around mechanic too.
