## Description
You are Johnny Alpha, a character from the comic 2000AD, who is a Bounty
Hunter, Mutant and Strontium Dog and you have been on the trail of two
renegade Strontium Dogs, the Stix Brothers. On your way to meet two friends
Wulf and Gronk on the Planet of Renegades, you are attacked by the Stix
Brothers which forces you to crash land on the planet. The planet is lawless
and full of criminals with deadly vegetation, and so you have to cross the
planet on foot to meet up with Wulf and Grunt.
_Strontium Dog and the Death Gauntlet_ is a side view horizontal scrolling
run-‘n-gun shooter seen from an elevated angle with the screen scrolling
constantly from left to right. You must move Johnny around the screen while
shooting or avoiding the criminals, as well as avoiding the vegetation because
if you are hit by an criminal or touch the vegetation then you lose part of a
strength bar and when empty then it is game over. As you make your way across
the planet, shooting the criminals gets you credits. You are able to control
the speed of your walk but if you do speed up then your strength bar decreases
but going back to the slowest speed decreases it. You are also armed with a
limited amount of electro-flares, which stun the criminals, and time-bombs
which sends you back in time a short distance. A radar below the playing area
shows your position and distance to go to reach your rendezvous. Once you
reach the end and meet Wulf and Grunt you then start the game again but on a
harder level which can be selected on the title screen (1-5)
Strontium Dog and the Death Gauntlet