The time crisis series of games is one of the biggest and most influential of the light gun games. I think that the first Time crisis was the first light gun game that I ever played in an arcade and I distinctly remember buying a psx along with the home version of Time crisis with…
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House of the Dead 4
House of the Dead 4 was a new one to me. It only ever came out in the arcades and not to any other consoles. Correction: House of the Dead 4 was also released on ps3. It may become playable on RPCS3 at some point and I will put up a guide for that when…
House of the Dead 3
House of the Dead 3 The house of the Dead 3 is a zombie shooting game and one of the most popular and also most compatible light gun game out there. You can play it on the Xbox, Wii, PC, Dreamcast as well as in the Arcades. This makes it one of the most accessible…
Virtua Cop 2
Virtua Cop 2 is one of the all time classic arcade light gun games. It features very similar graphics the the Time Crisis series but has a purer game play mechanic tat just involves shooting and reloading without having to duck and cover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtua_Cop_2 It is also one of the more widely available ports with…
Point Blank
In my opinion Point Blank 1 is hands down the greatest light gun ever created! Ok, its not as gritty as the house of the dead series or as ‘realistic’ as Time Crisis or Virtua Cop but what it is is loads of fun! I personally wasted more money and time playing this in the…
Point Blank 2
The Second installment in the Point blank series. It first came out in the arcades and than made an appearance on the PS1 where most people played it. This is often regarded as the strongest of the 3 point blank games. I personally prefer point blank 1 but that’s probably because I spent more time…
Point Blank 3
Point Blank 3 is the third installment in the Point Blank series. Originally released in 2000 in the arcades, it was later ported to the PSX for a home release. I love the Point Blank games and spent many hours in the Arcades playing them followed by many hours at home playing on the playstation…
Time Crisis 5
Yep – They are still making The Time Crisis series, you just can’t play them at home. At some point in the past, Namco stopped making their light gun games for the home market and focused on the Arcades. Time Crisis 5 came out in the Arcades in 2015 and is more of the same…
Virtua Cop 3
Virtua Cop 3 is the third installment in the virtua cop series. It was supposed to be released on the xbox but the release was cancelled in most regions. It did get a release in Japan on the Chihiro arcade machine though and that was basically an xbox with extra memory. It was apparently possible…
Virtua Cop
Virtua Cop is a classic of the Genre. If you were getting into light gun games at the same time as me, you would have played this in the arcades and then on the Sega consoles of the day. Its since been released on almost every platform which makes it nice and easy to play.…