This is a list of light-gun games, video games that use a non-fixed gun controller, organized by the arcade, video game console or home computer system...
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light gun is a pointing device for computers and a control device for arcade and video games, typically shaped to resemble a pistol. The first light guns...
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Light-gun shooter, also called light-gun game or simply gun game, is a shooter video game genre in which the primary design element is to simulate a shooting...
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shooters became popular in arcades, notably light gun shooters such as Time Crisis (1995) and The House of the Dead (1996). Panzer Dragoon (1995) and Panzer...
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subgenre of shooter games which emphasize "hero" characters that have distinctive abilities and/or weapons that are specific to them. This type of gameplay...
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used in arcade games starting with Gun Fight in 1975, but came into prominence with the high-action Robotron: 2084 in 1982. The ubiquity of gamepads with...
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Shooter game (redirect from History of shooter games)
evolved into light gun shooter video games in the 1970s. Early mechanical light gun games used small targets (usually moving) onto which a light-sensing tube...
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Shoot 'em up (redirect from List of Run 'n Gun Shooters)
1980s to early 1990s, diversifying into a variety of subgenres such as scrolling shooters, run and gun games and rail shooters. In the mid-1990s, shoot 'em...
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NES Zapper (redirect from Zapper Light Gun)
targets. The Zapper bridged Nintendo's existing library of hit arcade light-gun shooter games into the NES's launch library. As distinct toys, the Zapper...
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2012. Gun Buster at the Killer List of Videogames Gunbuster - Arcade, Games Database Muncy, Julie (August 27, 2020). "It's Time to Revisit the Games That...
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article gives a list of platformer series, i.e. video games of the "platformer" genre. There are both 2D and 3D variants of such games, with the latter...
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Europe and Japan) was the first light gun peripheral for the PlayStation and a few games support it. With the exception of Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas...
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lots of TPS. Third-person shooter Voorhees, Gerald A.; Call, Joshua; Whitlock, Katie (2015). Guns, Grenades, and Grunts: First-Person Shooter Games. Bloomsbury...
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Bullet hell (category Bullet hell video games)
curtain"), also known as manic shooter, is a subgenre of shoot 'em up video games featuring large amounts of projectiles the player character is required to...
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Cover system (redirect from Cover System (video games))
Time Crisis distinguish itself from rival light gun shooters, like Sega's Virtua Cop, and took advantage of the players' hand-foot coordination to create...
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Note: Games are listed in a "common English title/alternate title – developer" format, where applicable. Fighting games that use 2D sprites. Games tend...
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Third-person shooter (TPS) is a subgenre of 3D shooter games in which the gameplay consists primarily of shooting. It is closely related to first-person...
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Survival horror (redirect from Survival horror games)
subgenre of horror games. Although combat can be part of the gameplay, the player is made to feel less in control than in typical action games through...
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Hack and slash (redirect from Character action games)
projectile-based weapons as well (such as guns) as secondary weapons. It is a sub-genre of beat 'em up games, which focuses on melee combat, usually with...
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is a subgenre of shooter games and multiplayer games that cover both the first-person shooter and third-person shooter genres. These games emphasize fast-paced...
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Action game (redirect from Action games)
shooters, third-person shooters, light gun shooters, rail shooters, run and gun games and a plethora of shoot 'em up games taking place from a top-down or...
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Grand Theft Auto clone (category Criticisms of software and websites)
(often shortened to GTA clone) belongs to a subgenre of open world action-adventure video games, characterized by their likeness to the Grand Theft Auto...
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Tactical shooter (category CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list)
tactical shooters is that of one "primary weapon" (traditionally a long gun such as a rifle, shotgun, submachine gun, or light machine gun) and one "secondary...
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Survival game (redirect from Survival Games)
Survival games are a subgenre of action games which are often set in hostile, intense, open-world environments. Players generally start with minimal equipment...
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Beat 'em up (redirect from List of beat 'em up companies)
2D fighting games, scrolling platform games, and run and gun video games. A later example of this style is Capcom's Viewtiful Joe (2003). Belt-scroll...
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Platform fighter (redirect from Platform fighting games)
A platform fighter is a sub-genre of fighting games that emphasizes free 2D movement, often with floating platforms that can be traversed on, similar...
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This is a list of video games published by or under license from Games Workshop. The following games are set in the Warhammer Fantasy setting and are based...
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Stealth game (redirect from Stealth games)
element, light and shadow become important parts of the level design. Usually the player is able to disable certain light sources. Stealth games also emphasize...
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Battle royale game (redirect from Battle royale (video games))
Hunger Games franchise. Fictional battle royale video games were depicted in Btooom!, and in the Phantom Bullet (Gun Gale Online) arc of the light novel...
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Metroidvania (category Metroidvania games)
Metroidvania is a sub-genre of action-adventure games and/or platformers focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression...
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