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Everybody's favorite secret military facility is being overrun by escaped aliens, and it's up to the S.T.A.A.R. to clean up the mess in this 1995 light-gun shooter by Atari.
An early 3D-polygonal light-gun shooter from Namco, pitting one-man army Richard Miller against a ruthless terrorist organization in a remote island.
Crypt Killer is a a light gun shooter featuring up to three player action, and plenty of Crypts to Kill.
A shoot 'em up game released in arcades. It was a Virtual Reality game.
The sequel to the original Virtua Cop. It is a on rails style shooter and allows the use of peripherals, specifically the light gun.
Corpse Killer is an FMV rail shooter released for Sega CD32x, 3DO and Sega Saturn in 1994. Released with the subtitle 'Graveyard Edition' on the Saturn.
A light-gun shooter released by Sega in 1994. It was the first texture-mapped 3D shooter, and went on to have a lasting impact on the rail shooter and first-person shooter genres.
Jonathan Ingram is still trying to get used to the world around him after an accident had left him adrift and frozen in space for 25 years. When his ex-wife calls upon him to help find her missing husband, he finds himself in the midst of a deadly conspiracy.
In Revolution X, music is the weapon in this bleak future where Aerosmith is on repeat. Shoot down government helicopters and hurl explosive CDs all during the most bitchin'est night of all time.
Return to the gunner position of the ST Falcon in this sequel to the mecha light-gun shooter Battle Clash.
Arcade light-gun shooter released by Taito in 1993. It supports 2 player co-op, and made use of digitized sprites and sprite-scaling to produce pseudo-3D graphics.
With Super Scope in hand, Mario travels atop Yoshi to defeat Bowser once again in this on-rails light-gun game.
A FMV light-gun game from the studio behind Mad Dog McCree. Take the role of a Star Ranger and assemble the Star Splitter Cannon to save the galaxy from the evil Captain Talon and his band of space pirates.
A 1992 first-person shooter for arcades, developed by Taito. It pioneered several features before they became standards of the FPS genre, including circle-strafing and multiplayer deathmatch. Its control scheme, where the player moves with a joystick and aims with a lightgun, was also a precursor to modern FPS controls.
A static first person shooter for Atari 8-bit home computers. A later re-release added light gun support.
A FMV light-gun game from the studio behind Mad Dog McCree. Set in 1920's Chicago, it follows a private detective as he solves the murder of a popular nightclub singer.
A light gun game where the player must protect a baby from multiple dangers.
A shooting gallery game released by Nintendo in 1990. It was based on the 1952 cartoon series, "Barker Bill's Cartoon Show" and consisted of 4 different light-gun game modes.
Namco's arcade game that also made it to the PlayStation. The original arcade version released in 1990 supported up to 28 players. Incredibly powerful for its time, the arcade game ran on up to 16 Namco System 21 "Polygonizer" arcade boards.
One of six pack-in games for the Magnum Lightphaser light gun for the Commodore 64.
Baby Boomer is an unlicensed Light Gun game for the NES.
An arcade machine that featured up to three players each with their own gun. Your job is to hunt ghosts down to rescue a kidnapped girl. It was unique among light-gun shooters for featuring three-player co-op gameplay.
A Wild West light gun shoot 'em up from Sanritsu and Sega, released on the Sega Master System in late 1989.
A light-gun rail shooter similar to Operation Wolf and Cabal, but with more detailed three-dimensional environments. The original arcade version's sprite/texture manipulation engine anticipated FPS ray-casting graphics and the look of texture-mapped polygons.
A light-gun shooter that uses the NES Zapper. A lone pilot must defend the planet Earth from the Ragossians and their bacteriological weapon.
Shooting Range is a light gun game that was released on the NES.
Crime Busters was an unlicensed light-gun game for the Famicom Disk System, developed and published by Bit Corporation in Taiwan. It was then released for Famiclones on cartridge in Brazil by Gradiente and Dismac.
A sci-fi Light Gun game from Bandai that came packaged with the Hyper Shot Light Gun for the Famicom.
Recreating the events of the movie of the same title, commando John Rambo must rescue his mentor and friend, Colonel Trautman, from the Soviet forces occupying Afghanistan.
An Arcade shooter developed by Taito that pitted the player against a scrolling backdrop of targets as part of a mission to rescue hostages. It is the sequel to Operation Wolf and would later be followed by another sequel, Operation Wolf 3.
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