It was only experimented with briefly and never got a co op mode in the arcade but it still remains the only proper Time Crisis spin off to date. Now that you have a machine gun, the bosses get way more epic like unloading clip after clip into a freaking assault chopper. So where does Crisis Zone shine on its own? Well,the pistol of Time Crisis is replaced with an SMG and enemies usually take more than one shot to kill. It uses the “deadly eye” in which a red ring appears around bullets that will actually harm you as well as the pedal mechanic which allows you to reload as well as duck out of trouble.īut if you want to copy a light gun game, Time Crisis is about as good as it gets. Let me be clear Crisis Zone is very much a Time Crisis clone (made by the same developer as well). The ability to look through a sniper scope to take out enemies that appeared minuscule on the screen was SO COOL! They could afford to reward precision shooting when they allowed you to zoom in, making head shots and chest shots causes to celebrate. That being said, holy crap was this game cool. My beef with it is that it was kind of unwieldy at best and as far as I can tell the cabinets tended to burn out fast. Silent Scope is an absolute classic but its the sequel that took the game to new heights and I’m sure there are people who are surprised that its not in the top 3. This unfortunately eliminates solid entries such as Umbrella Chronicles. – The game must be an original arcade release, not a console game. Fixed path combat opens the category up to games like Star Fox 64 which we can agree is NOT the type of game we are focusing on.
So I’m going to recap some of the games that truly made our childhood along with a few gems you probably didn’t know about. They’re a quickly dying breed, with most new light gun games being budget releases for consoles. These games were always on fixed paths (rails), stopping periodically to throw enemies at you. Capcom 2 and Die Hard Arcade.īut if there was one genre of arcade game that held universal appeal, it was the light gun rail shooter.Ī light gun game was any game that gave the player a gun to point at the screen and used infrared light to calculate where on the screen the bullet would hit. Casual arcades usually had a variant of Gauntlet while hardcore arcades usually drew crowds with Marvel vs. Everyone remembers going to arcades as a kid and in my generation there were a couple easy fan favorites depending on where you went.
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