I think we all have a vague memory of playing a lightgun game in a dingy old arcade when we were kids. For me it was the arcade machines at Stoke-on-Trent Odeon circa 2001, wasting away plenty of time on the original Time Crisis and House of the Dead units.

Even if you don’t necessarily play video games, you’ve probably stepped into an arcade and become addicted to beating the high scores on at least one of the machines in there. And even with the decline of arcades, some of the games that appeared in these venues can’t be matched by anything you get on a home console like the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S.

This is especially true for lightgun games, a genre that requires such a specific setup that it’s pretty difficult to emulate the experience at home without the right equipment. Su

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