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The Golden Years: Way Out West Giveaway
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Game Giveaway of the day — The Golden Years: Way Out West

Help a woman and her son Jacob to pay money back to a creditor!
$9.99 EXPIRED
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The Golden Years: Way Out West was available as a giveaway on September 4, 2021!

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An arcade game combining a courier simulator and a space ship captain.

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As you use your business savvy to squeeze every ounce of profit from your investments, you'll help an iron-willed woman and her young son overcome the sleazy maneuvers of a greedy ol' rip and save her guiltless husband from a life behind bars. Progress through challenging levels and save the day in The Golden Years: Way Out West!

System Requirements:

Windows XP/ Vista/ 7/ 8/ 10; CPU: 800 Mhz; RAM: 512 MB; DirectX: 8.0; Hard Drive: 253 MB

Publisher:

MyPlayCity

Homepage:

https://www.bigfishgames.com/games/6956/the-golden-years-way-out-west/

File Size:

234 MB

Price:

$9.99

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It happened again. I installed the game. After install I opened it and the screen would not stop rolling.

Reply   |   Comment by Harold  –  2 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

Harold,

Hi Harold,

Firstly, please check the FAQ's thread HERE for various fixes or advice. Unfortunately it's not been updated in a long time i.e. at least before Win 10 was released, so I can't guarantee you'll find a fix, but it's worth checking it out.

No one else has reported this issue, so it's likely to be an issue with your computer and not the game. It's possible it could be the way you have your computer configured, or it may be lacking a particular driver update. You may need to update your graphics drivers; i.e. your graphic card or graphic chip and Direct X drivers or change your screen resolution to fix the issue. You can find out what your graphic drivers are called by opening up the Direct X diagnostics panel by typing DXDiag in the search field. Then click on the appropriate tab for graphics. It will tell you what the graphic driver is called and which manufacturer created it. You then j need to go to the manufacturers web site and click on the driver section that you'll probably find in a tab along the top of the manufacturers home page, or at least a button labelled drivers. When getting the latest drivers you'll need to provide details of the graphic card you have and the Windows platform you are using. Then install the downloaded river, reboot and hopefully it will have fixed the issue (assuming the driver was the issue)

One suggestion:

I) ... Open the Event's viewer
2) ... Then boot up the game
3) ... When the screen starts to roll, check the latest events via the event viewer.

If there is an issue, it should be recorded via the event viewer.

Often the error reports from the event viewer can give you a clue as to what the issue is.

If you do find an error report, and are not sure what it means please do post it here and I'll 'try' and explain what it means (though I may not be able to). Often error reports refer to a code word; that, if Googled, may describe the issue.

From your description, it does appear to be an issue with your monitor or graphic drivers; but, without seeing it myself, it's not east to fault find.

Reply   |   Comment by Whiterabbit-uk  –  2 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
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Funny Game, thanks for sharing :)

Reply   |   Comment by André Dürner  –  2 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)
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The Golden Years: Way Out West:
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In Brief:
The Golden Years: Way Out West is a resource management game with 48 levels. You can see several videos of game play HERE.

The game was originally given away HERE on June 29th, 2014 where it received a positive 75% from 378 votes with 31 comments then again on January 13th, 2019 where it received a positive 91% from 22 votes with 15 comments which you can see HERE.
The Game:
The North American gold rush was a time of both excitement and danger. In Alawar' s The Golden Years: Way Out West, Gertrude unexpectedly experience the adventure of their lives when her husband Samuel is imprisoned because of debts and she has to travel through the country on her quest to find gold. Vacation Mogul, The Golden Years can best be described as a hybrid of adventure, building sim, and resource management – and it’s both fun and unique.
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The Golden Years: Way Out West features 48 levels and only one mode, providing roughly four hours of gameplay. It is possible to reach an expert rating for each level, but players can also finish them on their own pace. Expert scores only provide decorative upgrades for the train Gertrude uses to travel across the country, but those do not have any influence on the actual gameplay.

The Golden Years: Way Out West can be best described as a mixture of the Mogul series, resource management titles, and a dash of Westward. Obstacles and resources have to be removed from paths, small quests have to be handled for various characters on screen, and different types of buildings need to be constructed to earn income, raise population or produce resources such as gold and wood.

Interestingly enough, houses such as inns, ranches and hotels can only be constructed next to municipal buildings, such as a church, a water tower and a sheriff’s office. All those municipal buildings cover different patterns of lots, so it feels like a little puzzle to plan a village. While houses earn money you can also construct commercial buildings which earn gold depending on how many citizens live next to them. Here the same rule applies as to municipal buildings. The sphere of influence of a general store differs from that of a saloon. And those commercial buildings also require a municipal building to be constructed.
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Apart from those buildings The Golden Years: Way Out West also features sawmill and gold mine, at which wood and gold can be produced, as well as trading posts, where a train arrives on a regular basis and enables you to buy or sell different amounts of gold and wood. All in all the building aspect of the game is very varied and complex, but since some levels are more adventure game than building simulation, this never gets repetitive or frustrating.


A really unique aspect of The Golden Years: Way Out West is the introduction of goals and the general design of levels. Each level is divided into two to six stages, each stage contains very different goals, and each stage of any level can be finished in expert time. Whether you receive an overall expert rating for a level depends on whether you finished the required number of stages in expert time.

This level structure provides a very entertaining and episodic feeling to The Golden Years: Way Out West. Sometimes you have to search for an amulet and deliver it to an Indian. This will open the passage to a gold mine, where your workers have to dig to complete tasks in the next stage. Each level feels very different and the tasks highly vary, an aspect that is rarely found in other games. It’s also wonderful how well the narration of the storyline and the gameplay are combined – each stage is introduced by a conversation between Gertrude and other recurring characters, which makes goals and the overall gaming experience more personal than in your average casual game.
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However, players should not expect a challenge as deep and complex as they are used to from other titles from other titles of the genres The Golden Years: Way Out West combines, such as Build-a-lot or My Kingdom for the Princess. The game apparently does not aspire to replicate that aspect from those games. Apart from some complicated stages in a couple of levels the focus is rather on compelling storytelling, gorgeous graphics, and an interactive and quick experience.

Apart from the short playing time the only real issue we had with The Golden Years: Way Out West is the somewhat disappointing ending. In a game like this players might expect the last level to be longer, more exciting, and different from the others, but here it falls a bit short. It certainly is still good and entertaining, but it is over way to soon. I’d also have enjoyed if the story had some parts where I actually would have to make a decision on my own – for example do I pay the bandits or do I try to fight them by searching for guns? But these complaints are nit-picky in comparison to what the game has going for it.

In the end all I can say is that while The Golden Years: Way Out West blends aspects from various other titles so well that it feels extremely unique and fresh. The division of each level into various stages firstly assures that even beginners can easily achieve expert ratings while playing on their own pace, and secondly increases the feeling of being part of an evolving story. If you are searching for a highly challenging building simulation you might be disappointed, but all others might appreciate the exciting story, high variety between levels, and the wonderful mixture of different genres.

Reference accessed HERE; originally posted by David Becker on 19th December 2011, reposted by Whiterabbit-uk on 29th June 2014 and reposted again on the 3rd September 2021
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Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game and it found zero hits from ? antimalware engines. The downloaded executable may include some low level adware that only opens your browser to Falcoware's home page after the game has installed and places four shortcuts onto your desktop (which can be safely deleted once the game has installed). The installation does not inject any malware into your system. When your browser is opened to Falcoware's home page when the game has been installed, it earns Falcoware games some money, part of which is given to the developer of the game for allowing the game to be given away free. You can see the results of the scan via the following link:

To be added later

Reply   |   Comment by Whiterabbit-uk  –  2 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+25)
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