Outlaw can be played in a one or two-player mode. Each player can move up down left and right on the screen. When holding down the button to aim, the player can control the angle the player will shoot at. Releasing the button fires the bullet.[4]
Ine one-player mode called "Target Shoot", the player controls the movement of a gunfighter with the joystick and practices shooting the various moving targets that appear. The player has 99 seconds to reach a maximum score of 10 points with one point awarded every time the player hits the moving target. In the two-player modes called "Gunslinger Games", each player controls a gunslinger and scores points for shooting the opposing gunslinger. When they are hit, they will sit down. Like in one-player mode, the first player to reach 10 points wins.[4]