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Dust: A Tale of the Wired West

Dust is a point-and-click adventure game with integrated full-motion-video characters. Players explore the town of Diamondback, New Mexico in the 1880's solving mysteries and enacting vigilante justice.

79 30 June 1993 ESRB T

Dust: A Tale of the Wired West is an adventure developed by Cyberflix Incorporated, released 30 June 1993 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Dust: A Tale of the Wired West is

Dust: A Tale of the Wired West is an adventure game developed by Cyberflix Incorporated and released in 1993. It was published by BMG Interactive Entertainment. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dust is a point-and-click adventure game with integrated full-motion-video characters. Players explore the town of Diamondback, New Mexico in the 1880's solving mysteries and enacting vigilante justice.
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How it plays

Its themes are comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Dust: A Tale of the Wired West holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1993 averaged 64, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Dust: A Tale of the Wired West launched on 30 June 1993, within three weeks of Street Fighter II' Turbo, Super Mario All-Stars, The Punisher and Samurai Shodown. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Street Fighter II' Turbo, Super Mario All-Stars, The Punisher, Samurai Shodown.

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When did Dust: A Tale of the Wired West come out?
Dust: A Tale of the Wired West was released on 30 June 1993 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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