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Operation Wolf was pretty cool. Think it was the first to use a mounted gun. I really like the less traditional light gun games such as Lucky & Wild or Rail Chase. Freedom Force by Sunsoft had pretty nice animation for a NES game, but it seems to be somewhat forgotten. Besides the ones already mentioned, I had alot of fun playing the likes of Line of Fire, Crypt Killer, and Terminator 2. I played Time Crisis quite a bit, constantly trying to keep my high scores. I guess with the decline of arcades their death was pretty much inevitable. Seems like Sega is about the only company left that will have anything to do with light gun games these days. I also really loved the joystick gun games i.e. Cabal and all the games that it later spawned.
What makes you say that? Even if you don't count the arcade version, the NES and Master System versions both used the light gun.
Terminator 2 was bull shit hard.. I worked at a laser tag place years ago and we had it in our arcade. The owner gave my friend and I a $20 roll of quarters to play it and we still didn't beat the damned thing! Granted maybe we sucked or something, but it was just waaaay to hard later in the game.
Oh, L.A. MachineGuns anyone? I always thought that was a really fun game to play with friends in the arcade ha.. and clay Piegeon Does Lucky and Wild Count as a light gun game? It always seemed like one to me Xp
Yes, I guess positional gun and light gun aren't exactly the same. I don't think it's just you. T2 seems like it was pretty much designed to eat money. I only managed to complete it years later using mame and god knows how many credits. It's near impossible to make it through most of the bosses without dying constantly.
The House of the Dead series will always hold a special place in my heart (and the spin-offs like Pinball and Typing). Such a great franchise. Vampire Night was fun as well. I really wish Let's Go Jungle would get a console release.
Thing is, even a crapload of quarters there's no guarantee you'll finish the game, since that ridiculously hard level where you have to protect John Connor's truck will start all over from the beginning when you fail!
Gunblade NY (Sega) was awesome at the time. Also, Operation Wolf. Beastbusters (SNK) was also great. Really nice graphics. Apparently Michael Jackson was a massive fan too!
House of the Dead 2 was the reason I got a Dreamcast back in the day. I liked how you could unlock that game in the XBOX House of the Dead 3. Virtua Cop was awesome for saturn. It actually looked a lot like the arcade version (I still have the huge orange light gun for it somewhere). Lethal Enforcerers for Sega CD was pretty awesome, especially if you played with 2 players (or I would often set it to 2 player and just use both guns by myself - was a bitch to remember which gun to reload that way though). I wish Mechanized Attack for NES was a lightgun game back in the day (the arcade game was awesome since you used Uzi's)
In the arcade it always had to be House Of The Dead or the sequel ... at home personal favourites included Duck Hunt, Super Scope 6 & Time Crisis!
I remember the truck part in Terminator 2! A friend of mine could beat the whole game losing 4 credits, but he played the game a shitload of times.
I'm sorry to say but Big Buck Hunter is a guilty pleasure of mine. Best played after a few (too many) pints however...
