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[RetroGamingUK]

One thing that's been incredibly frustrating about modern gaming is the lack of light gun games.

I recall having the Virtua Cop games on my Saturn on a 28" CRT screen and I was always excited about the prospect of playing these games on huge 65" screens

As TV sizes increased with LCD and OLED we lost the ability to use traditional style light guns, and while we got the likes of House of the Dead on Wii and Time Crisis 4 on PS3 with Move support it wasn't accurate enough, it just didn't feel the same.

But, it appears we may be about to see a huge resurgence of the genre thanks to AI and camera tech…

Time Crisis Is Coming To Modern TVs Through An "AI-Powered" Light Gun Device

Dashine Electronics says its GAIME device will work on all LCD TVs and comes preloaded with the classic arcade shooter Time Crisis.

www.gamespot.com

The AI Gun is engineered to self-calibrate by intelligently detecting your screen, offering unparalleled accuracy and ease of use. It works from various angles and distances, supports all kinds of common screen sizes, [and] can be tilted to shoot--it is designed with the casual gamer in mind.

 

[drganon]

It'd be cool if someone made a similar device with area 51.

 

[Lord Panda]

Here's the Kickstarter for the GAIME device:

 

[RetroGamingUK]

It'd be cool if someone made a similar device with area 51.

My preference would be a PS5 version.

Then Namco, Sega and Konami can re-release all their classics along with making modern sequels.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

So it appears there's also a light gun that works on modern PC and PS1/PS2

Sinden Lightgun® – The official site for the Sinden Lightgun®

sindenlightgun.com

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Would be cool to have 2-4 player coop and/or vs modes at home.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Would be cool to have 2-4 player coop and/or vs modes at home.

2 player co-op is available

 

[CGNoire]

Cool as long as its under $100. Most of these modern lightgun solutions have been around $150+ .

 

[archangelmorph]

Cool as long as its under $100. Most of these modern lightgun solutions have been around $150+ .

Inflation bro

 

[CGNoire]

Inflation bro

$50 got you timecrisi and the gun in the 90s. I might be wrong but I don't think inflation's tripled since the 90s.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

$50 got you timecrisi and the gun in the 90s. I might be wrong but I don't think inflation's tripled since the 90s.

Completely different technology…

 

[Calverz]

Resident Evil survivor.
Thanks OP. You reminded me that I needed to use some cex vouchers and order a Dreamcast lightgun and a con 45 to play survivor

 

[Hemingwayoffbase]

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

What was up with the light gun cabinets with the super stiff cables? Did Lethal Enforcers really ship like that or did I just play on a sad repair job where they used the same cable technology from my bicycle lock to make it a sad stiff unplayable mess? I forget which others also had that problem.

Anyway after playing some of the lightgun-esque stuff in VR I just kind of assumed people would have ported all the light gun games to that. That shit works great. Even better than a Wiimote!

 

[DKehoe]

I was just talking to a friend about this yesterday

 

[Hypereides]

Nice. That said, get motivated indie and AA devs, usher us into a new railgun shooting renaissance.

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

I was just talking to a friend about this yesterday

Yo, this was definitely one of the cabinets with the horrible stiff cables... please someone tell me I'm not crazy.

Also my favorite was:

That SMG controller was the shit!

Virtua Cop and Time Crisis were both really good too. Though I vaguely remember the Time Crisis cabinets having still cables at least on some of the releases... but the game was good enough to overcome them.

 

[DKehoe]

Yo, this was definitely one of the cabinets with the horrible stiff cables... please someone tell me I'm not crazy.

I saw it all over the place back in the 90s in places that would have arcade machines. I can't remember what the cables were like off the top of my head though.

 

[Ironman_Bad]

If only people knew the true potential of vr

 

[Neff]

Sell me a plastic Uzi with Op Wolf/Thunderbolt, Taito

Also if G'AIM'E can be updated I'd love to see Deadstorm Pirates

 

[tylrdiablos]

POINT BLANK (PSX) was a great game.

 

[KormaChameleon]

If Sega gets on board with HOTD, I'd be tapping my card to the monitor.

 

[SkylineRKR]

The Area 51 cabs were quite pathetic. I also played Site 4 back in the day. Small guns with no recoil I think. It was a bit low budget compared to Namco.

POINT BLANK (PSX) was a great game.

It was a bit disappointing that the official Guncon only worked with Time Crisis, and Point Blank was the next game. But once I bought it I found it incredible. The minigames are very original and fun.

PSX was actually a great lightgun system. You could buy a third party gun with recoil and pedal, that worked with every single game. I owned Maximum Force, Area 51, Time crisis 1 and PT, Point blank 1 and 2 and more.

 

[Skyfox]

If only people knew the true potential of vr

Every popular light gun game should have been remade for VR.

Too late now

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Every popular light gun game should have been remade for VR.

Too late now

Big problem

Every VR game I've played where I'm not using my head and my own body to move around makes me sick.

If I can't handle games where I'm using a stick to move around, imagine how I'd cope with VR rail shooters.

I think light gun games can make a comeback purely because they'll be awesome on modern 65" TVs

 

[Ceadeus]

It doesn't seem to have recoil. Half the excitement is the recoil but it looks promising for sure. It looks much easier to setup than using infra red sensors.