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TOP 22 BEST LIGHT GUN GAMES OF ALL TIME.

Light gun shooter games are among the most fun and engaging you can find in the arcade or at home. These are games that simulate the experience of shooting at various targets, such as zombies, aliens, criminals or wild animals, using a gun-shaped peripheral that detects the player's movement and direction.

Even as video games become more and more realistic, it's hard to beat the feeling and immersion of playing a game with a gun. Titles from 30 or 40 years ago are still enjoyable to play on a well-calibrated arcade cabinet or on home workstations. This list takes a stroll down memory lane and features the best of lightgun games, making you want to pick up a gun right away.

In this article we present those who for us are the 22 Best Light Gun Shooting Games of All Time . These are games that have stood out for their graphics, gameplay, atmosphere and ability to entertain. Are you ready to grab your gun and challenge your enemies? Then follow us on this journey through the best optical gun shooter games.

  • Laser Ghost : A 90s arcade game about saving a girl from the ghosts and monsters that threaten her.
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  • Chillers is a video game published by the Exidy manufacturer in 1986. The cabinet was one of many that worked with the Exidy light gun but caused a particular sensation due to the violence and brutality of the gameplay.

  • Area 51 : A game that uses digital graphics to have you fight against aliens and zombies in a secret base.

  • Point Blank : a fun and colorful game that offers you a series of mini-games based on aiming and speed12. One of the most recognizable.

  • Time Crisis : A game series that puts you in the role of a special agent who must face terrorists and criminals in adrenaline-filled missions. The originality of the game is also due to the possibility of dodging bullets by taking refuge when necessary by pressing a pedal.

  • House of the Dead : A horror game series that has you fighting hordes of zombies and monsters in scary settings. The house of the dead represents an entire genre.

  • Virtua Cop 2 : A game series that puts you as a cop who has to shoot criminals and save hostages.

  • Silent Scope : A series of on-rails shooter games developed and published by Konami where you play as a sniper with a precision rifle to take out enemies from afar.

  • Lethal Enforcers : A game that has you shooting criminals of all kinds in five different levels, with realistic graphics based on digitized photos.

  • Duck Hunt : the classic Nintendo game in which you have to shoot flying ducks, with the help of your trusty hunting dog.

  • CarnEvil : a horror game set in an amusement park infested with monstrous and macabre creatures.


  • 2SPICY: a 2007 arcade game where you have to duel against other players using a gun and a foot pedal to move and cover yourself.


  • Alien 3 : The Gun : a 1993 arcade game based on the film Alien 3, in which you have to shoot xenomorphs infesting a penal colony with good weaponry.


  • Beast Busters : A 1989 arcade game where you have to eliminate hordes of monstrous creatures in an overrun city.

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  • Confidential Mission : an arcade game from 2000 in which you have to play as a secret agent who must foil the plans of a criminal organization for Naomi and the Dreamcast..

  • Revolution X : A 1994 arcade game that was hugely successful and is considered a classic of light gun arcade shooters. The sturdy light cannon peripheral mounted on the cabinet also made it nice to play. There are also console versions, but they are of poor quality compared to the arcade original.

  • Crypt Killer : A 1995 arcade game where you have to explore tombs and temples for treasure, while facing monsters and traps.

  • Ghost Squad : a 2004 arcade game where you have to be part of a special team that must carry out various counter-terrorism missions.

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a light gun shooter arcade video game released in 1991 by Midway Games, based on the film Terminator 2.

  • Golgo 13 : 1999 arcade game based on the manga of the same name, in which you have to use a pistol or sniper rifle to eliminate your targets from considerable distances.

  • Dead Space : Extraction is a 2009 video game, developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts for Wii. Prequel to Dead Space. Nice nice.

  • Dino Stalker is a first-person shooter created by Capcom, released for the PlayStation 2 on June 27, 2002. Dino Stalker is the third installment in Capcom's Gun Survivor series.

If this post about 22 best light gun shooter games of all time or the stress accumulated during the week has made you have the compulsive desire to hold a lightgun and put holes in a 70-inch smart TV, know that from today you will be able to let off steam by rediscovering or playing these magnificent titles for the first time together with many other incredible lightgun games.
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