I'm sure this will bring out the worst in people (sorry x_x) 
 
So before i dive for cover from the flaming, let me ask; Why do developers no longer make light gun games? 
 
With the exception of time crisis 4 for the playstation 3 there have been no light gun games outside of the arcade for years now. 
 
Why do you think this is? is the genre dead?

It isn't dead, they're just all on the Wii and very few of them are good enough to even talk about.

" It isn't dead, they're just all on the Wii and very few of them are good enough to even talk about. "

Also, there is a difference between an on rails shooter on the Wii and a proper light gun game. I guess that developers don't think people would buy a light gun? I'm not sure I would to be honest.

House of the Dead: Overkill is one of the good ones. But if you are like me and don't have a Wii then you get the bone. They don't really come out for other consoles.

" @oldschool:  I think I was at least half right in saying that they're all on Wii. I can't really speak to their quality as I've never been much of a fan of the genre and have only played a couple of the better entries on the Wii (RE:Umbrella Chronicles and Dead Space: Extraction). "

"I'm sure this will bring out the worst in people (sorry x_x)  So before i dive for cover from the flaming, let me ask; Why do developers no longer make light gun games?  With the exception of time crisis 4 for the playstation 3 there have been no light gun games outside of the arcade for years now.  Why do you think this is? is the genre dead? "

Maybe with Natal we'll get some "your hand is a gun, point to shoot" light gun games...kind of like this.

" Maybe with Natal we'll get some "your hand is a gun, point to shoot" light gun games...kind of like this. "

If you could use Natal to point at the screen like that, would your finger get tired?
 
I suppose you could point your leg to whip out the rocket launcher.
 
Maybe we'll be able to use props... That would be great. We'll be going back to our childhoods with poster paints, toilet roll inserts and Pritt Stick to assemble all kinds of crazy weapons.
 
I'd be way into that.

As a guy who used to love his lightgun games, I agree with the sentiment of this thread. Besides Time Crisis, nothing really plays the same and even that seems to e losing its way. I haven't played the Resident Evil games on the Wii but the ones on the PS2 were terrible and HotD:O is nothing compared to the first three games in that series.

Because lightgun games are boring

Not sure if i'm perfectly accurate here. Lcd hdtv's doesn't work well with the lightgun technology. Unless they build some sort of new sensor bar type of thing, it's probally not going to work. Besides that, not too many ppl cares about the genre anymore on certain consoles, however I still do.  
 
I know the nintendo wii has a few light gun games, maybe use that instead if you like light gun games. It still works and everything because there is a sensor bar to detect the signal.  
 
I used to have time crisis for the ps2 with a light gun and everything, I tried to use it with my lcd hdtv, doesn't work anymore. I'm sure there was a new time crisis near the beginning of this gen, might have newer technology to make it work. However maybe ppl wants to play fps games instead, I don't know.

Do you...  
 
do you have a Wii?

" @oldschool:
So you're telling me there's no chance of recreating an epic slow motion finger gunfight in video game form with Natal?  I mean it seems to me that Natal is perfect for it. The cameras can interpret where you're pointing your imaginary weapon and the microphone can interpret your gun noises as you shooting. "

i dont know but i would fully back the idea of having the arcade versions of arcade light gun games to be sold to anyone

HitmanAgent47 has it right.  The way lightguns work is focusing on a very small point on the screen - the NES Zapper dealt with it by checking to see if that spot was white, others most likely checked when the screen was refreshing and used that to determine where on the screen it was looking.  Since flatscreens update the entire image at once instead of using scanlines, the lightguns we used to use won't do jack.  The Wiimote is the closest thing we have to a lightgun, and it doesn't let you aim at the screen properly unless a game actually has a calibration setting.  Even then it depends on you standing in exactly the same spot all the time.  If you want a good lightgun game, you'll have to find an arcade, and that's getting harder to do as time marches on.
 
NECROPOST!

They got ruined in arcades and made even worse on the Wii.

Metroid Prime 3 and Red Steel 2 are kind of evolutions of the light gun wouldn't you say? The tech for a light gun is really old now. NES era stuff.

I love lightgun games. And while not having things like another Point Blank is a bummer, the Wii has some stunning offerings that really bring out what the genre can do (Dead Space in particular).  I still think Brad's review for that game sounded more like a 4, he was pretty glowing about it

" @oldschool:
So you're telling me there's no chance of recreating an epic slow motion finger gunfight in video game form with Natal?  I mean it seems to me that Natal is perfect for it. The cameras can interpret where you're pointing your imaginary weapon and the microphone can interpret your gun noises as you shooting. "

I think VR is taking over this market as well

@oriongames: GG for creating an account and necroing a 7 year old topic to promote your game.

@mrcraggle: haha good catch didn't even see that