Lucky Luke is based on the famous comics series about good cowboy Lucky Luke . In this game, Lucky Luke has to arrest the four Dalton brothers – Averell, William, Jack, and Joe. Gameplay involves progressing from level to level, shooting enemies (bad cowboys, jailbreakers, and hostile Indians) with Lucky Luke 's revolver, collecting various items like bullets, dynamites or sheriff stars, running, jumping, ducking, and climbing.
Lucky Luke progresses through different locations such as forts, towns and jails, to mines, a train, and a haunted saloon. On every level, Lucky Luke will have to complete different side objectives to progress, like freeing a bank director, collecting gold nuggets for a miner in exchange of some nitroglycerine, or building a totem for the Apache.
Lucky Luke has arcade sequences between levels that involve chasing the Dalton brothers, riding Lucky Luke 's faithful horse Jolly Jumper, running away from a tornado, or navigating a raft, among other things. Bonus level arcade sequences include a wrestling challenge with Jolly, bottle shooting, or a revolver barrel roulette.
Lucky Luke uses a password system to start directly from certain points in the game, and it was made in French, English, German and Spanish.