Following up on my Light gun story from yesterday, I also have the VERY FIRST LIGHT GUN EVER here- it has a spring-loaded reaction when you pull the trigger, and it was designed for the Magnavox Odyssey (the first ever home game console) by none other than Nintendo themselves!
It's fun to think Nintendo has been in the video game space since the very beginning, and that light guns have been too!

#nintendo #retrogames #odyssey #lightgun #retrogaming

Confidential Mission is a Dreamcast light gun game that doesn't list lightgun support in its manual (even though you can use the Dreamcast-branded Mad Catz one).
Sega never released their own gun in North America due to the Columbine massacre, much the same way they never released Propeller Area on Dreamcast due to 9/11!

#retrogaming #sega #dreamcast #lightgun

Pixel Crisis by ThePrinceofMars

https://piefed.social/c/Bside/p/2041921/pixel-crisis-by-theprinceofmars

Cheyenne Light Gun

A couple of days ago one of my regulars (a 12 year old golden age video game connoisseur) let me know the Cheyenne gun was not working. I had this issue before, and thought it was going to be a pretty routine repair. In some ways it was, but just not the routine I knew.

I tried checking all the wires connecting the gun to the Exidy 440 FPGA board, but everything checked out. Next step was to […]

https://bavatuesdays.com/cheyenne-light-gun/

#bavatuesdays

Light gun fans on MiSTer and SuperStation One will be delighted to know they can play two more games without flashes thanks to privateye! Gregori has the details and links to the patches in his story:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/04/08/jinzou-ningen-hakaider-scud-the-disposable-assassin-receive-quality-of-life-patches/

#sega #saturn #segasaturn #retrogaming #retrogames #videogames #セガ #セガサターン #lightgun #patch #mister #misterfpga

Light Gun – Pistolety Świetlna – Historia i Przegląd – Retro Studio – Zappe – Stare Gry i Konsole

I've been fighting a nasty cold for the last week, but I still make time to boot up my Saturn to shoot some Crime Guys™

(The gun is in port 2, before anyone points out it says Press Start for P1 😅)

#sega #virtuacop #lightgun #retrogaming

[INSERT COIN] Under Fire (1994) (ARCADE) [EN] [HD]

#retrogaming #UnderFire #Arcade #LightGun #Shooter #1994 #jgo #johnnygameover #videogame #demo #intro #gameplay #games #gaming #HowToPlay #InsertCoin #Taito

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jaUFow4EM8

New patches make a bevy of improvements to Virtua Cop 1 & 2 and House of the Dead — from unlocking bonuses right from the start to optionally removing the white flash for those using Sinden light guns, here's everything they do and where to get them:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/02/18/patches-improve-trio-of-saturn-light-gun-classics/

(Story written by my fellow SHIRO! Gregori Rasputin!)

#sega #saturn #segasaturn #retrogaming #retrogames #videogames #セガ #セガサターン #lightgun #sinden #fpga #misterfpga #homebrew #patch #virtuacop #houseofthedead