The Virtua Cop franchise, I remember playing these games fondly in the dingy arcade on the first floor of Park Plaza Mall here in Little Rock and at home on my Sega Saturn. I remember playing Virtua Cop 1 a lot when it first hit Aladdin’s Castle in University Mall (about two blocks from Park […]
Posts Tagged ‘light gun’
New Jaguar Game in the Works Called JagZombies
November 16th, 2017
Carl Williams Do you know what you get when fans figure out how to make games for their favorite consoles? You get stuff that is unique, often quite different than what was released commercially. Take for instance JagZombies, a work in progress title for the Atari Jaguar console. This is a lightgun style game pitting you against […]
Top 3 Arcade Games Without Good Home Ports (Top 3 Tuesday)
March 16th, 2017
Michael Crisman Every developer crowed they were “bringing the arcade experience home” whenever a smash-hit arcade game received a console translation. Until the PS1 era, most of us took these boasts in stride because we knew in our hearts there was no way the games we loved in the arcade were going to look or sound the […]
Gamers Futilely Shoot Duck Hunt Dog on Nintendo NES – October 18th, 1985 – Today in Video Game History
October 18th, 2016
Carl Williams The Nintendo Entertainment System was known for a lot of things – one of which was the light gun zapper. The game that really showed the interaction of the zapper was Duck Hunt which featured a couple of different game modes. The game mode most gamers probably remember is the one the game is named […]
Dynamite Duke Brings Operation Wolf Style Action to Sega Genesis – October 27th, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
October 27th, 2013
Carl Williams Back in the earlier days of gaming, cross platform releases in North America were kind of rare. It was not with every release that every viable platform got a version at the same time. Take Operation Wolf from Taito for example, it was released in arcades first, then the Nintendo NES. That was the end […]
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