Light guns shooting at a screen - still possible?

[wax lyrical]

Like the old zombie classic 'House of the Dead'? Are these types of games even possible these days, or have they died along with the CRT TV's?

Is a VR headset the only way to recreate the feeling?

[Rod200SX]

VR is the way to go and it's incredible for fairly simple point and shooters. And thankfully in most of the games, if you run out of ammo and panic, your flailing arms may punch whatever enemy you're trying to defend yourself against

[aizvara]

Nintento Wii did these pretty well. House of the Dead Overkill was good. You could even get a pistol shaped Wii-mote holder!

[Wayoftheflower]

This light gun for new TVs seems to have been succesfully kickstarted?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfo004_4xwU

Not cheap though.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-sinden-ligh...

[Jamescrs]

The Wii was really good at this type of game, I remember playing Ghost Squad for hours on it. Should still be possible for modern consoles, the last gen Xbox had the Kinect, I assume the PS4 had something similar too.

[some bloke]

You can get this game on Steam, using a different input system.

https://youtu.be/Zs3M6oDcPlU?t=252

[Mattt]

Superhot VR is what you need

[conkerman]

+Eleventy For the VR suggestions.

SuperHot VR is fantastic. More of a puzzle game really.

Robo Recall (Oculus) - A brilliant fun action shooter. Includes dismemberment.

Gorn- VR Gladiator game. Most likely to punch your TV

[Steve Campbell]

SuperHot VR.....panic and you WILL die as you flail helplessly. Whoever dreamt that game up was a genius....super slow mo wins the day :-) takes a while to recalibrate your brain.

[seyre1972]

Op - now out of Beta - and already mentioned - but here’s a link to Sinden Light Gun and the Original Living Dead 2 Game being demo’d. Likely Mame as the game engine. Multiple Arcade Machine Emulation

Youtube Sinden Light Gun and Liveing Dead

[wax lyrical]

Thanks All!

[ch37]

We bought a Wii (before prices went up during lockdown!) for exactly this...

Loads of guns, the Nyko Perfect Shot is the one to get if you can find one.

Games:

Ghost Squad
The House of the Dead: Overkill
The House of the Dead 2 & 3
Resident Evil: Chronicles
Dead Space: Extraction
Gunblade Pack

[mr_fibuli]

There were some good shooters for the PS3 move controller with gun attachment, graphics are less fuzzy than the Wii on a big TV.

[okenemem]

aizvara said:

Nintento Wii did these pretty well. House of the Dead Overkill was good. You could even get a pistol shaped Wii-mote holder!

good times

[Bullett]

Superhot is brilliant and I've broken my controllers more times on Gorn than I care to think about.

Not seeing any love for Arizona Sunshine (zombies!) its good as an adventure and the see how many waves you can survive bit in excellent.
Also I like Operation Warcade which is a VR version of those arcade machines where you shoot all sorts with the attached UZI's. Simple but fun.

[Lucas Ayde]

mr_fibuli said:

There were some good shooters for the PS3 move controller with gun attachment, graphics are less fuzzy than the Wii on a big TV.

Yeah, you could get simple and cheap, but effective, pistol shaped holders for the Moves and there was a pretty badass 'Sharpshooter' peripheral which took a Move and a Nav controller, but sadly wasn't supported in very many PS3 Move games. So disappointed they didn't support it for PSVR either, though there is an Aim peripheral which does much the same thing. Also not all that widely supported though.