![]() ![]() Pair this with clever software and the gun reads the border, using this to work out precisely where it is pointed.Īfter a bit of calibration, it works like a dream - and works very well even when standing off at a weird angle or whatever. ![]() ![]() ![]() The long story short is that it sort of inverts the traditional system by putting a webcam into the barrel of the light gun and then drawing a small border around the game image on the display. I’ve talked about Sinden on the site before. These guns work blissfully well on modern flat-screen displays - and in some instances are actually arguably more accurate than the old-school methods. Sinden is an old friend of VG247 - I’ve been using their guns on my home arcade cabinet to play emulated versions of classic arcade shooters like Point Blank and Time Crisis for an age. House of the Gundead’s arcade cabinet uses Sinden Light Guns. However, all that has changed: we have the technology.Ĭan you imagine how good this feels to play?ĭevolver knows it, too. But display problems meant any return of the genre felt unlikely. A brief revival did happen on Wii, but those pointer-based implementations were never quite the same. Well done, Devolver.īut… Can we get a home port, yeah? Light gun home ports were a staple of gaming in the eighties and nineties - but with the advent of high-definition TVs, which made the light gun technology problematic, they began to die out. New arcade games are relatively rare, and they’re even rarer from anyone but a handful of modern arcade experts like Raw Thrills - so I’ll take it. It looks pretty good, and hopefully as well as collectors with money to burn it’ll find its way into some arcades and pubs. You can head to the Enter the Gungeon website and even place an order for the cabinet - if you’ve got the cash to spare and enough room for a full-size arcade cabinet with a 43-inch display. House of the Gundead isn’t exactly a new revelation - it was first revealed back in E3 2019 - but this week, Devolver announced they game was ready to ship. Are you really telling me you're not through-the-roof excited to play this? ![]()
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