Any attempt to move while they're leaving, as well as a short time after they're off-screen, will result in them shooting Jerrod dead.

When they catch up to him- when, not if, as they'll follow him to the next screen-they'll steal all of his gold and warn him not to move while they depart.

Bandit Mook: A group of these will pursue Jerrod if he's carrying gold for too long while prospecting.

The only things you will always get to keep are your bible, your gold coin, and your brother's letter. Regardless of which path you take, you will eventually shed a large amount of inventory in order to save weight (or appease some cannibals). In 2014, 26 years after its original release, a Fan Remake titled Gold Rush! Anniversary was released for Steam with an updated point-and-click user interface, voice acting, and improved graphics. It's a rather drastic departure from other Sierra titles that were vastly more popular at the time, but is still well worth a look today if you want to try something different. Gold Rush! gathered a few high-profile good reviews, but never sold very well, most likely due to using the outdated AGI engine, when Sierra's new SCI engine was already in use by then. The game doesn't bother too much with historical accuracy (or rather, it doesn't come up very much), but the manual, which was required for the Copy Protection, held a great deal of information on the time surrounding the 1848 gold rush, from the discovery of gold in California, to the eventual abandonment of the boom towns that sprang up after the gold rush ended. Naturally, the game featured a surprisingly long list of deaths, all of which expounded on your inability to make the hazardous trip from New York to Sacramento, a trip that historically was fraught with incredible danger. Unusually for a Sierra adventure game at the time, the game offered multiple paths to completion, and each path, when fully completed, offered a chance at getting full points.

Like most adventure games released at the time, Gold Rush! uses a text parser to allow the player to guide Jerrod's actions.

The game chronicles the adventures of the main character Jerrod Wilson, a Brooklyn journalist in 1848 who, upon receiving a letter from his long-estranged brother, embarks on an adventure to California, to seek his fortune and reunite with the only family he has left. Gold Rush! is an adventure game from Sierra, initially released in 1988.

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