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Just played Area 51/Maximum Force at a retro-arcade. Are light gun shooter games still a thing? Any recent versions available for PC? (fedia.io)

submitted 2 days ago by classic@fedia.io to c/gaming

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And, if they are, any recommendations for a gun controller?

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I miss that game... And real arcades. All the "arcades" around here have nothing bullshit mobile games you can literally download and play for free on your phone, and they want like $1-2 per play at the cabinet now. I ain't paying any money to play Angry Birds or Flappy Bird.

At least they still have skeeball and the basketball things...

As for light gun games on PC, the only things I've ever seen are emulated. Either arcade games like that Terminator one with the machine guns that actually have kick to them, or NES/SNES games using the zapper/super scope 6. The emulators do support the actual hardware if you have it and a way to connect it, and there used to be light guns made for PC, but I don't know if they would be USB or serial port (they were from the 80's and 90's).

[–] classic@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

I'm lucky to live near an actual old school arcade — Spy Hunter, Gauntlet, Mortal Kombat, and a host of other ones!