The Sega Master system is actually THE system to own for those old lightgun games. That console had a lot of them, and really good ones too. I have a SMS, and I had a lightgun and a bunch of the games back about ten years ago, but they got lost in time.
Taito Legends - Space Gun
On 04/11/2014 at 04:10 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
This is an on-rails shooter from 1990 with a sci/fi setting, which is very similar to the Alien movies. I mean, the aliens look a little like the alien from the movies and there are even face huggers and egg pods. It’s a lot like the alien movies. You are on a space station infested with alien monsters orbiting an alien planet and have to rescue as many humans as possible. Then you go to the alien planet surface. You have a time limit for each level and a health meter just like in the Halo games, with a regenerating shield and a health meter underneath it. [actually not. The meter is actually the amount of gun overheating and the health bars are just the health bars.] The game is very gory with alien blood everywhere and bloody chunks flying off in all directions. Sometimes you have to shoot off limbs, Dead Space style, before the alien goes down.
You can pick up other weapon types and activate them by the pump action of the gun peripheral on the cabinet. The cabinet also has foot pedals (see pic above) that, when pressed, turn you around so you can shoot behind you. In playing the port on Taito Legends, I wasn’t aware of either of these features (the flame thrower activated as soon as I picked it up) but perhaps I just missed them by not reading the instructions. Stupid me.
If you want to play a home version with a light gun, the most recent port is on the Sega Master System. Why Taito didn’t add light gun support for the several games that use it on Taito Legends is beyond me. How hard would that be to do? Grrr.
Here’s the short Classic Game Room review video of Space Gun.
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