Oh why not?!! Show some love for the Super Scope!
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Cold Shadow
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That pic brings back memories. I got that game for my birthday, I was so happy but the problem was that I only got the game and not the gun. So that kinda sucked. Only game I ever traded-in.
Shit... I never got Yoshi's Safari (speaking of Yoshi games!)
I remember about.. 8 years back I found all my Super Scope shit and set it up and just had a blast with Battle Clash (still one of my all time faves!) and those 6 wonderful games that came with the gun.
The Super Scope was actually the first time the family and I (Yes... ENTIRE FAMILY) played a game together. We'd make teams and play the missle shooting game. Oh the memories! THANK YOU SUPER SCOPE!
I remember about.. 8 years back I found all my Super Scope shit and set it up and just had a blast with Battle Clash (still one of my all time faves!) and those 6 wonderful games that came with the gun.
The Super Scope was actually the first time the family and I (Yes... ENTIRE FAMILY) played a game together. We'd make teams and play the missle shooting game. Oh the memories! THANK YOU SUPER SCOPE!
Chittagong
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Super Scope was more fun to watch than to actually play. I saw it for the first time on the Nintendo Tour '92 when the Super NES was shown for the first time in Europe. I thought it looked really cool. Hence, once it arrived, I put down around what equals about 100 eur only to realize that the Super Scope 6 games were boring as hell. I had some good moments with Battleclash, however.
The best thing in the Super Scope to me was that the European version had a red fire button instead of the US purple one, and the Super Famicom four dot logo instead of the US stroke logo. It was cool to get a customized device after Mario Paint had a mouse with a purple button, totally inappropriate for Europe.
Btw, any European gamers remember the Nintendo Scoremaster - the coolest arcade style joystick from Nintendo for Super NES, almost like a follower to NES Advantage ? I think it was never released in the US, but I know the us Nintendo Helpline guys used them. That was one sweet joystick for TMHT Tournament Fighters and Super Street Fighter II.
The best thing in the Super Scope to me was that the European version had a red fire button instead of the US purple one, and the Super Famicom four dot logo instead of the US stroke logo. It was cool to get a customized device after Mario Paint had a mouse with a purple button, totally inappropriate for Europe.
Btw, any European gamers remember the Nintendo Scoremaster - the coolest arcade style joystick from Nintendo for Super NES, almost like a follower to NES Advantage ? I think it was never released in the US, but I know the us Nintendo Helpline guys used them. That was one sweet joystick for TMHT Tournament Fighters and Super Street Fighter II.
radioheadrule83
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Apple Jax said:
It was the LAST time the family and I played together.
Parallax Scroll
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Metal Combat was god damned awesome. It was cool how the way you fought the last boss determined your ending.
radioheadrule83
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AstroLad said:They both look pretty excessive to me.
The scope was a nice clean design IMO. Not at all realistic or anything, or attempting to be slick - but it was nice. My younger brothers chewed the crap out of the plastic aiming reticule thing though... was Menacer for both lefties and right-handers like the Scope was?
I still love the old NES blaster. That was a light gun in the true sense of the word. The screen flashed as you shot and that had something to do with how the gun worked. It wasn't as complex as something like a Gun Con which needs calibrating...
...and it was bright red!!
The Main Event
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One of the main reasons I kept my Super Scope besides Metal Combat was for the port of Terminator 2: The Arcade Game. Except that the game would become all washed out so that the light gun could detect it. Ended up playing with the controller instead.
FortNinety
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I love the story of how back in the early 90's, in front of Congress, Nintendo was talking trash about Sega, due to the Mortal Kombat situation, and said they only make game suitable for all ages, so the Sega rep pulled out the Super Scope, which totally shut the Nintendo guy up.
)SiegfriedFM
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Eh? Guncon 2 works with Time Crisis 2 and 3, Virtua Cop, Ninja Assault and whatever more games Namco and Sega cooked up recently. Isn't that already a bit more than the Super Scope ever got?
The Bookerman
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I'd rather have this:
AstroLad said:They both look pretty excessive to me.
Yeah. These guns came out during the height of the "videogames are evil/mortal kombat" crap the media and congress were going apeshit for. They had to make the guns in ways that looked nothing like a traditional gun, so we got the Super Scope 6 and the ... Sega one.
ArcadeStickMonk
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Menacer?LakeEarth said:
My mom was hooked....HOOKED...to the SS6. By the time it came out she was already a seasoned Super Mario Bros. and Tetris fanatic, but i was truely surprised with how much she played my SS6. She was pretty good too. For me, it had some pretty nice music. The missle shooting game, Blastris A(the one with the zodiac signs in the background), molepatrol...even the calibration screen.
Ouch. That sucks. I saw one my local independent store along with a copy of Mario Paint for 20 bucks. I may just pick it up so I can have another set. It doesn't come with the mousepad though. I tried using the mousepad with my optical mouse and it's terrible :lolmj1108 said:I don't have my Mario Paint with mouse anymore.A long, long time ago my mom gave it to the kids of a friend of her's. I never got it back. That was....10-12 years ago.
Ironclad_Ninja said:
It's one of those titles I keep meaning to get again.....yet once in a great while II'll see a copy of it with the mouse (no mousepad) at Gamestop. The mousepad it came with was great.
I do have my Power Glove still, though.
Never could get it to calibrate work correctly, but it was fun. Warm Machine
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I'd love to see an FPS that used a lightgun for the aiming. Wasn't Take the Bullet for DC supposed to be like that?
I bought a Super Scope off of Ebay a couple of years ago. I have never actually played it because it requires thirty batteries and the soul of an orphan to run, but I do not regret my purchase. One day, I hope to live in a place that has a fireplace so that I can hang it over the mantle.
