/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10162410]

Which consoles have the best selection of lightgun games?

Lightguns are expensive and bulky so I only wanna buy them for two or three systems.

[Anonymous No.10162443]

Namco's Lightgun games are very well made on the PSX and PS2. The Guncon is also the coolest lightgun design, and actually has gun in the name.

[Anonymous No.10162453]

>>10162410
Playstation1/2, Dreamcast and Saturn
I personally wouldn't bother with anything pre-5th gen.
NES Zapper games can be fun little novelties but there's not much worth more than 10 minutes of your time, Superscope is just a bulky retarded gimmick with no good games

[Anonymous No.10162461]

>>10162453
Umm...Yoshi's Safari says "hi", you little karate nigger.

[Anonymous No.10162602]

>>10162410
This is one of the rare instances where the 16bit consoles shit the bed. The Super Scope and Menacer were pretty garbage and the Justifier wasn't all that comfortable and barely had any games. The Saturn has both Virtua Cops and House of the Dead, which are three of the best light gun games ever but the PS1 has more shit in general so it's a tossup between those.

[Anonymous No.10162636]

Master System Saturn PS2

[Anonymous No.10162657]

>>10162410
PS1/PS2 no competition.
Time Crisis 1/2/3 (GunCon)
Vampire Night(GunCon)
Area 51 (Justifier)
Crypt Killer (Justifier)
Die Hard Trilogy (Justifier)
Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas (Justifier/Guncon)
Elemental Gearbolt (Justifier/GunCon)
Ghoul Panic (GunCon)
resident Evil Dead Aim
Point Blank 1/2/3
Gunfighter the legend of Jessie James
residnet evil survivor
Lethal Enforcer 1/2
etc etc
Just so many good games, you will need two guns a guncon45 for the ps2 and a scorpion/lightblaster for the ps1 for die hard etc (justifier)

[Anonymous No.10162660]

>>10162636
For fuck sake anon that's just mean
>>10162602
You could use a ton of third party guns instead of teh justifier for the PS1 stuff that was not guncon and a lot of them were very good, like die hard triliogy's light gun sequence

[Anonymous No.10162663]

PS1

The light gun genre is obviously a dead genre, and I miss it. I really do

JUST SEETHE AND COPE FAG! IT'S NOT THAT HARD!

[Anonymous No.10162680]

>>10162602
Virtua Cop is better on PS2 and HOTD Saturn is a notoriously shitty port

[Anonymous No.10163086]

>>10162410
>Lightguns are expensive and bulky
eBayby with a small room detected

[Anonymous No.10163134]

>>10163086
Bitch, I have 17 consoles and 9 CRTs.

And what the hell is an Ebaby?
Are you trying to shame me for not being poor and having games shipped to my house?
Let me guess, you are proud of what a great gamehunter you are, spending your weekends trawling flea markets and thrift stores and rejoicing when you find such hidden treasures as Tak and the Power of Juju (PS2, missing manual). Perhaps you even have a youtube channel where you basedface on every thumbnail; your finger pointing to the side.

Maybe you should get a real job.

[Anonymous No.10163139]

>>10163134
*soiface

[Anonymous No.10163526]

>>10163134
You sound very upset and confused little man. Pic of your 17 consoles and 9 CRTs.

[Anonymous No.10163543]

>>10162680
Nintendo went full retarded with the bazooka.
Why did they do that?

[Anonymous No.10163553]

Just upgraded these bad boys with micro switches. Feelsgoodman

[Anonymous No.10163558]

>>10163134
>Bitch, I have 17 shekels and I'm taking trt.
Anger doesn't suit you anon, you get that curl in your nostril bush

[Anonymous No.10163596]

Get the guncon controllers for PS2 because most of the best lightgun games are on it. After that, a Wii is pretty good too.

[Anonymous No.10163608]

>>10162461
Based yoshi safari enjoyer, the super scope was also good for whacking someone with.

[Anonymous No.10164642]

>>10162410
The original Playstation has quite a few games that utilized the technology. I really want the Hori Beretta M92FS for the Playstation, but Japanese people typically don't like to deal with international shipping. Unfortunately, I didn't win the Mega Millions so I won't be visiting Japan anytime soon, but back in the day I was able to bring items like this back to the USA without issue, but I fear anything shaped like a gun may not make it past USA customs these days. Anyone else got the Beretta M92FS? Was there any difficulty in having it shipped to you?

[Anonymous No.10165382]

God fuck, I miss having a shitty Madcatz lightgun for PS2 that wasn't very good but still got the job done. No CRTs in the house, no lightguns on hand, nothing to really mess with anymore. Only hope I have at this point is a Sinden for an LCD display at best.

[Anonymous No.10165436]

>>10163134

[Anonymous No.10165473]

>>10165382
No hope of an old TV popping up somewhere?

[Anonymous No.10165475]

>>10162410
My plan is PS2(and PS1 via PS2) and Dreamcast

[Anonymous No.10165639]

>>10165473
I see the offers on Craigslist and Ebay all the time within an hour's drive, but I'm not versed enough in CRT handling and don't really got the space for it anywhere in a crowded house of four adults and a 2 year old baby as is.

[Anonymous No.10165715]

>>10165436
lol my mum

[Anonymous No.10165931]

Super Scope has not a lot of games but most are good.
Metal Combat and Battle Clash are really great and unique lightgun games.
I also have a soft spot for the arcadey Super Scope 6 games

[Anonymous No.10165943]

>>10164642
fuck customs
i order illegal shit all the time
the customs dept can go to fucking hell
just roll the dice anon
yolo

feds are too busy trafficking bodies\children and drugs to care about faggy vidya or copyright IP

[Anonymous No.10165957]

>>10165931

I can remember coming downstairs in the middle of the night and my DAD would be playing operation thunderbolt. I was a battle clash and falcons revenge chad.

>>We will never be able to go back to times like this.

[Anonymous No.10166001]

Point Blank is one of the best games to play with a gun, so either go PS1 or 2 (if you don't mind playing the japanese version from the compilation)

>>10162680
I wish SEGA had ported HotD 1 and 2 to PS2 so we could the most rounded collection of Lightgun games on a single console.

[Anonymous No.10166028]

Very pissed The Ocean Hunter never got a home port.

[Anonymous No.10166037]

>>10162410
Light guns are bulky? Are you 4’3?

[Anonymous No.10166157]

>>10164642
>>10165943
Sadly I've had my own shit luck with import sites stopping me when I ordered a JP Saturn gun.
There's an eBay listing for the Beretta but it's like $170
https://www.ebay.com/itm/403162470060

[Anonymous No.10166659]

>>10165943
I don't know about your country, but gun violence is pretty high in mine. So the scrutiny is pretty high here for anything gun related opposed to imitation fast fashion from Temu. At around ¥4000 for the Beretta and not even including the costs of a courier, it is no small amount to just "roll the dice".

>>10166157
Times have changed a lot. I used to have a solid wood and iron toy gun that resembled a double barreled shotgun as a child and that was fine, but those cap guns you no longer see around anymore. With how bad things have gotten, I imagine goofy looking guns like the ones Konami made may no longer be handled by import sites. That price didn't even include the shipping! At $188USD it would take a couple years to save up that much. A shame since it is really inexpensive in Japan, but I guess the added cost is for the potential legal fees that seller needs to hedge such a risky sale.

[Anonymous No.10166984]

Super Scope and Menacer both suck, Konami's Justifier is a better buy for both systems.

[Anonymous No.10166992]

>>10166984
Super Scope has some good games at least, the Menacer I don't think it even has any game that was developed in Japan for it.

[Anonymous No.10167001]

>>10166001
I believe the source code for HotD 1 is lost but there's no reason they couldn't have released HotD 2 & 3 on PS2, the Xbox got them and I don't think that even has an official light gun

[Anonymous No.10167280]

>>10162410
To get an edge, I play with light artillery...

OMG, I'm hilarious.

[Anonymous No.10167305]

>>10162410
How's the wii zapper for light gun games and emulators anons? I already have a dolphinbar and there are some light gun type of games on wii that are worth playing anyway, and I can also get the zapper attachment for very cheap.

Could I also play light gun games on MAME or emulators other than dolphin with it? I saw a program called wiimote gun that let's you calibrate the wiimote to your monitor.

Anyone got any experience with that?

[Anonymous No.10169670]

>>10162410
You're more than likely going to invest in the PS1/PS2 for more variety, keep in mind tho you're more than likely going to have more than one gun type since 3rd party ones that advertise compatibility with all games are usually shit or will crap out on you over time. Guncon 1 will only work with games made compatible for it, same goes for Guncon 2, and Konami Justifier has a couple exclusives. If you only want one of these guns for now, I think despite some limitations, Guncon 1 has more game options as some PS2 light gun games were made compatible with it, although some games are region specific (i.e. Japanese copy of Vampire Night doesn't support Guncon 1, but US/EU version does). Downside is that many later light gun titles stopped including Guncon 1 support even if some of the simpler ones could have realistically used it such as the Virtua Cop PS2 ports (JP/EU only). That being said I think having access to some of the best light gun games like Point Blank, Time Crisis 1,2, and *3 (euro version only), Vampire Night, and Elemental Gearbolt is a pretty solid selection if you were only going after one of these gun types. There's some other oddities that are from the PS1/PS2 but you can look those up yourself if you wanna delve deeper into the light gun catalogs. Ofc that's if you're going for original hardware, but there's definitely a scene for light gun gaming on PC with newer guns but those can be a bit costly depending on your setup and preferences, although it would probably offer the most accessibility, but I don't know too much about that scene. I know Saturn gets love too but outside of Virtua Cop and House of the Dead (which is very janky and slow), most of the games on Saturn are also on Playstation with maybe one or two exceptions.
I ended up getting two Japanese black Guncons for roughly $60 that came with a Japanese copy of Point Blank 1 which was a pretty nice deal.

[Anonymous No.10169694]

>>10169670
Also wanted to add that if you go the PlayStation route, consider getting a multi-out adapter as it will allow for component cable support while also having ease of access to composite inputs for the video adapter on the Guncons. What I like about the Guncon 1 is that they have passthrough composite video cables because obviously people will want to play multiplayer, however they didn't do this with the Guncon 2's so you need to have a separate accessory for multiplayer. All-in-all light gun gaming is kinda a pain in the ass to setup and compatibility it annoying, but once everything comes together it's fucking joyous.
Original Xbox also has House of the Dead 3 (also includes 2) but the light guns for Xbox vary in quality because the only "official" one is the MadCatz blaster which looks like a water squirter, there's also like 2 real games that work with it which are HotD 3 and Silent Scope, and I think Starsky and Hutch but idk nor care. You'd probably be better off sticking to the Wii for HotD and some of Sega's other various light gun titles, but while the Wii sensor is pretty great for light gun gaming, it feels radically different from the traditional "LIGHT" gun gaming that uses CRTs. I'm probably just being an douche by saying that but even if you disable reticle aiming on Wii light gun games, it does not feel the same.

[Anonymous No.10169695]

>>10162453
Dumb fuck. Light Phaser games are fantastic, you've never even played a Sega game.

[Anonymous No.10169712]

>>10162410
This is the greatest handgun ever made

[Anonymous No.10169718]

>>10169695
Cope, they're about on par with Zapper games. Nothing that I'd consider a must play or "fantastic"

[Anonymous No.10169732]

>>10169712

based rare Pink justifier that you could only order through the manuals of 2-player supported Justfier games;.

[Anonymous No.10169746]

>>10169718
>they're about on par with Zapper games
You've never played them.

[Anonymous No.10169780]

>>10169746
Stop coping

[Anonymous No.10169812]

>>10169712
I found one of these at a game shop and held it.
They are incredibly comfortable in the hand.
They feel "just right".

[Anonymous No.10170515]

>>10163553
Nice. How much for a Switch?