As a Master System kid, the best on the system in my opinion is Shooting Gallery. It’s got great music and it’s pretty tough! Shoot blimps, balloons, balls and turbo speed ducks!
Totally agree, I still think the SMS Phaser feels much better than the “CLANG” of the NES guns.
The SMS pubes aren’t as reliable though, I have two, and they’re both out of alignment. Luckily it can be fixed fairly easily, and replacement phasers are only about $15.
I still have my Phaser from when I was young, though I haven’t played with it in years. I wonder if it still works… You’ve made me curious raskulous (thanks btw! :)), I might just test it tonight!
I love light gun games but I gave up on them on the PS2 generation. I played a lot of Virtua Cop on the Saturn and bought a guncon for the PS1 last year, but the PS2 is plugged to a 480p TV. That means no guncon2 for me, unless the games have a 480p mode?
That was a great generation to be into them, as @stereoasis’s picture in the op shows. Was so many good ones and the GunCon2 was great.
When I get more space I want to have a setup dedicated just to the light gun games. Well when I get more space and find a bigger CRT just for that purpose. So probably never.
I have no light guns or games right now. I really need to change that. It’s one of my favorite genres but don’t want to invest too much cash in new guns.
Some of my favorites:
HotD
HotD2
Virtual Cop
Jurassic Park arcade
I really hope more light gun style games come out for PSVR. VR feels like the perfect medium for that sort of thing.
I bought a CG2 and several games a while back. I need to test out more of the games but the few that I did seemed to experience some … drift of some sort? My accuracy noticeable changed after 20-30 minutes of play. I wasn’t drinking or anything, lol. Anyone heard of this? I was using a CRT in a dark room.
I used to love playing TC2 on PS2. I always found it kinda cool that you had a dual-wield option that had the game in full screen with two guns/players. Used to always use that when playing it with friends as the two screens were way too tiny on a regular 4:3 CRT.
Surprisingly never actually played any of the other PS2 lightgun games. I will say though that Time Crisis 3 and Crisis Zone were fantastic in the arcades.
I borrowed a G-Con 2 years ago and played quite a few games through it on my PS2. Vampire Night is cool, the Virtua Cop collection and of course Time Crisis 2.
I’d recommend Resident Evil Dead Aim too. Blends nicely walking gameplay with the d-pad and then you need to raise your gun to enter shooting mode. Good fun!
You can place an ordinary controller on the floor in Time Crisis 2 for pressing the button to pop out of hideout I believe, or was that TC1?!
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