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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A hero shooter is a sub-genre of shooter games which emphasize "hero" characters that have distinctive abilities and/or weapons that are specific to them...

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...

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...

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...

Note: Games are listed in a "common English title/alternate title – developer" format, where applicable. Fighting games that use 2D sprites. Games tend...

lots of TPS. Third-person shooter Voorhees, Gerald A.; Call, Joshua; Whitlock, Katie (2015). Guns, Grenades, and Grunts: First-Person Shooter Games. Bloomsbury...

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...

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...

Survival games are a subgenre of action games which are often set in hostile, intense, open-world environments. Players generally start with minimal equipment...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

Metroidvania is a sub-genre of action-adventure games and/or platformers focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression...

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...

which is most often a piece of fabric, but can be any object small enough to be easily carried by a person (night time games might use flashlights, glowsticks...

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...

inspiration from arcade shoot 'em ups and maze games (such as maze-shooter Berzerk) and war films (such as The Guns of Navarone). According to Wizardry developer...

ARPG) is a subgenre of video games that combines core elements from both the action game and role-playing genre. Action role-playing games emphasize real-time...