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I miss light gun games. Point Blank. Time Crisis. No MAME arcade emulator will ever being them back from the dead without a CRT.

keithnz 5y ago
yes, loved these games! Point Blank especially Light guns are a lot harder these days, and even then you can't do the same thing with modern expensive guns, my 4 year old son would literally get up point blank to the TV screen and play point blank putting the gun on the glass.
- greggman3 5y ago
  I certainly have some nostalgic for light gun games but there are plenty of far more immersive gun games in vr, and ducking with your body is fun
AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Unless you mean something more specific than 'being able to play them with a gun', there are several solutions to this in the form of light guns that use infrared border leds or even image processing for aiming.
christkv 5y ago
Check out https://www.sindenlightgun.com/ https://www.sindenlightgun.com/ it’s made to work with modern panels and can be made to work with emulators. The whole is incredibly impressive .
- dleslie 5y ago
  And it's crazy expensive for a peripheral that's not going to have any modern games for it. Which is fine for wealthy middle-aged folks chasing nostalgia, but generations of kids are growing up without that experience. At best, they might have experienced a (terrible) wiimote gun game.
  - tehwebguy 5y ago
    It's only $115 max for the non-recoil version, has sold ~1000 units total. Barely more expensive than the newest Call of Duty + Season Pass.
  - greggman3 5y ago
    Just play an emulator in VR ;) well, if the kids just want to experience pointing and shooting there are plenty of modern VR games that provide that. And, BTW, my short description of "Pistol Whip" is "rhythm Time Crisis in VR" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwzpaReU5g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwzpaReU5g
- MegaDeKay 5y ago
  A lot of enthusiasts now prefer the Gun4IR [0] or Samco [1] routes over the Sinden. Both use the IR camera from an authentic WiiMote (the camera in clones won't work), or the commercially packaged version of the latter from DFRobot. The camera tracks around four infrared LEDs placed around the monitor. This gets you away from the white box the Sinden draws around the screen. The Gun4IR Discord is really active, with people modding everything from old PS/2 GunCons to airsoft guns to Nerfs. And no gun is complete without a solenoid and / or a rumble motor (that from a PS4 preferred) for feedback. [0] http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,161189.0.html http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,161189.0.htm... [1] http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=160517.0 http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=160517.0
Lammy 5y ago
If only we got FEDs/SEDs in the 2000s instead of just LCDs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-emission_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-emission_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-conduction_electron-emitter_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-conduction_electron-em...

keithnz 5y ago

yes, loved these games! Point Blank especially Light guns are a lot harder these days, and even then you can't do the same thing with modern expensive guns, my 4 year old son would literally get up point blank to the TV screen and play point blank putting the gun on the glass.

greggman3 5y ago
I certainly have some nostalgic for light gun games but there are plenty of far more immersive gun games in vr, and ducking with your body is fun

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago

Unless you mean something more specific than 'being able to play them with a gun', there are several solutions to this in the form of light guns that use infrared border leds or even image processing for aiming.

christkv 5y ago

Check out https://www.sindenlightgun.com/ https://www.sindenlightgun.com/ it’s made to work with modern panels and can be made to work with emulators. The whole is incredibly impressive .

dleslie 5y ago
And it's crazy expensive for a peripheral that's not going to have any modern games for it. Which is fine for wealthy middle-aged folks chasing nostalgia, but generations of kids are growing up without that experience. At best, they might have experienced a (terrible) wiimote gun game.
- tehwebguy 5y ago
  It's only $115 max for the non-recoil version, has sold ~1000 units total. Barely more expensive than the newest Call of Duty + Season Pass.
- greggman3 5y ago
  Just play an emulator in VR ;) well, if the kids just want to experience pointing and shooting there are plenty of modern VR games that provide that. And, BTW, my short description of "Pistol Whip" is "rhythm Time Crisis in VR" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwzpaReU5g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwzpaReU5g
MegaDeKay 5y ago
A lot of enthusiasts now prefer the Gun4IR [0] or Samco [1] routes over the Sinden. Both use the IR camera from an authentic WiiMote (the camera in clones won't work), or the commercially packaged version of the latter from DFRobot. The camera tracks around four infrared LEDs placed around the monitor. This gets you away from the white box the Sinden draws around the screen. The Gun4IR Discord is really active, with people modding everything from old PS/2 GunCons to airsoft guns to Nerfs. And no gun is complete without a solenoid and / or a rumble motor (that from a PS4 preferred) for feedback. [0] http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,161189.0.html http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,161189.0.htm... [1] http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=160517.0 http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=160517.0

Lammy 5y ago

If only we got FEDs/SEDs in the 2000s instead of just LCDs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-emission_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-emission_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-conduction_electron-emitter_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-conduction_electron-em...