The Best FPS Rail Shooters LIGHT GUN Arcade and Classic Games (All Platforms)

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Compilation of the evolution and selection of the best "LIGHTGUN" games (first-person perspective rail shooters) for all classic platforms (ARCADE, NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, PS3, Dreamcast, Wii).
The purpose of this video is to showcase numerous games from the "LIGHTGUN" genre, which gained popularity in the late 80s thanks to the impressive arcade game Operation Wolf and especially in the 90s with great arcade game series like Virtua Cop and Time Crisis. In this video, I have arranged the games chronologically to demonstrate the evolution of this spectacular genre. The video has an educational focus and aims to preserve the history of video games.
The list is quite extensive, but you can add forgotten games or other suggestions in the comment section. Please note that third-person rail shooters and Laserdisc-based arcade games are not included, as there is a dedicated video exclusively for those games.

[@snoozy04]

A genre that needs a comeback, thanks!

[@brendanroberts1310]

Curse the need for a crt TV to play a lot of these games.

[@Blas4ublasphemy]

I'd love a dedicated plug and play lightgun only system preloaded with the majority of these games!

[@gokuuSSJ4]

​@@brendanroberts1310 It's only necessary for console. You have multiple working lightgun options for PC.

[@brendanroberts1310]

@@gokuuSSJ4 yes I know thanks, no pc just consoles unfortunately.

[@dannygg7555]

​@@Blas4ublasphemyCan get these days.

[@rcadenow7543]

Time crisis will forever be my fav series:)

[@guilleros7893]

Menuda diferencia abismal de calidad e innovación entre las compañías japonesas y americanas. Este fue uno de mis géneros favoritos cuándo era niño y estuve enamorado del Virtua Cop 2 en el recreativo.

[@stevenadams3206]

Brilliant video. One of my favourite genres. Thanks.

[@tehyeh]

Thank you for making this, super grateful for listing all the games I missed.

[@tehyeh]

I think you forgot to add the Police 911 series, and elevator action and a few of the Japan arcade exclusives.

[@HashBandit]

@@tehyeh tons missing + a lot of games arent light gun games, they used mounted guns as joysticks, same with a few flying shooters like star wars, the arcade hardware used joysticks not light guns

[@ArttuTheCat]

I was born in the summer of 1983 and still love playing the old retro games 😺👍🕹️. In fact, i still own and play the original hardwares of the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️. You just got yourself a new subscriber / retro gamer from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮 😺👍🕹️.

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

Nice. Finland has revolutionary schooling, a very high happiness rate, a very low crime rate, and one of the top economies, which is capitalistic (it works extemely well, unlike American corporatism). Finland is also where the founder of the great Linux was born. Shalom.

[@dcb01]

Wow that was intense! Loads of games I never knew existed especially for the wii . Thanks for the effort in putting this together (Fantastic). Looking forward to Arcade1up doing another version of The Time Crisis cabinet with a better choice of included games as well as T Crisis.

[@Hektols]

Una gran recopilación, sabía que la Wii tenía varios juegos de este género pero no tantos.

[@markmaisy4858]

Great video used to love the Point Blank games they really cracked me up. Got my Sinden light gun on order can't wait to replay these thanks to Batocera!

[@damicsita]

Thanks for the video I didn’t know you stress Rho so many beautiful games with light Gun!

[@BURRITO44]

Awesome collection !!! Thank you much for doing such a great job. !!

[@DJ_CYBER_Drolf]

I think we need a video game that has a collection of the best rail shooters ever made throughout gaming history

[@rebeccaking5396]

Thanks for the compilation. Many I have never seen. Loved it.

[@rtym]

estuve semanas buscando un video sobre todos los juegos Rail Shooter gracia a dios que existe este video :D XD

[@gregc7699]

Wish there was light guns and shooting games released nowdays last one i brought was House Of The Dead Overkill The Wii had way more then i thought im gonna have to get my Wii back out the closet

[@FhargaZ]

Perfect for the sinden lightgun that i bought, 🤘

[@yt-sh]

what games can you play with and what monitor does it work with

[@triplestar100]

@29:58= the BEST of them all! the pinnacle of excellence of the genre, bar none! el MEJO`R de todos! la cima de la excelencia del genero, simple y llano!

[@FVC1988sp]

excelente trabajo

[@Steambull1]

The Sinden light gun is giving all these games and many more a chance at a 2nd life. It was invented too late for me, as I no longer play games with IRL friends, but 10 years ago I would have gotten 2 of those bad boys right away. Back then, we had to settle for the Wii remote with the 2 RE titles, HotD ports + Overkill :/

[@gerc2005]

Yeah, IRL play dates are very scarse, but I have a Sinden duo for playing with my wife and it's an absolute blast!

[@gerc2005]

Gunblade NY y LA Machineguns son el pinaculo absoluto del subgenero de ametralladoras (dentro del genero Lightgun), absolutamente insuperables!

[@LuckyPunkProd]

One game that you forgot was Namco's "Dark Escape 4D" from 2012. It plays similarly to Deadstorm Pirates (also by Namco), with the gimmick that it also checks your heart rate, which affects the gameplay.

[@kowalskivideos6476]

Second this. It’s awesome

[@brentparker3607]

Your videos are always expertly edited and show just the right amount for me to see if I'd like to play it - Love it from Australia

[@cristiangarcia-uu7rm]

No hay palabras para describir lo que es este trabajo ! Excelente la verdad ! Todos esos juegos se pueden configurar para jugar con el mouse ?

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

Si, en los arcade puedes calibrar los punteros con el mouse entrando en el menu test o bios del juego y en los clásicos depende del emulador, pero normalmente se puede activar, aunque hay algunos que he tenido que jugarlos con el pad.

[@cristiangarcia-uu7rm]

Podrías hacer un vídeo mostrando la configuración del mouse para sega model 2 y model 3

[@jamesavery3559]

very nice thank you...i have a lot of laser disk games and was thinking of something like this.

[@flozzy1988]

love it thanks !!

[@tookool5616]

Very cool

[@DigitalCircus777]

So. Many classic games I spent so many Quarters and then multi Tokens on! 😂

[@aymenzaghouani7873]

Perfect

[@josephmartinez5698]

All those games, and I still didn't find the one I was looking for. A 1980's handheld gun shooter, where you shot bad guys in windows and sewer grates etc. It had a kind of 1950's gangster theme if I recall.

[@jariesman]

Thank you!!!😊😊😊😊😊

[@illuminatidad]

Bro really did carnevil dirty by running it in green blood smh

[@Zahir658]

Those 90s light gun games were epic as well as some 2000s games. The Wii games are a bit bland though TBH. Nevertheless, thank you for an amazing list of these light gun games. Your work is very much appreciated 👍

[@dantebelmont1408]

Exelente video 🙂👌

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

Gracias 😁

[@Antzmacadamia]

What lightgun are you using? Looks like sometimes mouse, sometimes a controller. Not sure if the wiimote motion plus is still the best to use. Multiplayer has been the main struggle i've had setting up a light gun setup with modern screens.

[@pointblank6269]

Point Blank series rules 😎

[@jvgchile]

Que pistola hay que comprar para que se pueda en emuelec ???. Gracias por el video tan bueno

[@PaganMin-1966]

House of the dead and virtual cop are classic arcade shooters

[@MassimoPapa-n7j]

Hi! Very cool video compilation. Great work. Where do you get your video snaps? I use a front end and I’m looking for the video snaps. Can you give me a hint or a download link for the videos please. Thanks!

[@misawa8629]

I never even knew there was ever a Time Crisis 5.

[@jachi_fenix2456]

Gracias por el compilado. Pero pase lo que pase, jamás voy a dar con un juego que estuvo en los Arcades del Carrefour de Jaén alrededor del 2000, con acción tipo Rambo, a 2 jugadores, con unas metralletas enormes y pesadísimas que había que coger en peso, que ibas en un helicóptero aniquilando a todo bicho viviente.

[@BautystaOsuna]

Yo recuerdo uno que era literalmente de rambo con dos metralletas muy pesadas que estaba muy bueno y creo que todavia esta en donde lo jugue

[@edmundosantos2421]

I'm not a big fan of this genre but this video is amazing

[@mrdark8276]

Great video as always! Which Mame do you use for Revolution X game? Congrats once again! : )

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

I have been using the latest versions of MAME. The 0.255 specifically.

[@mrdark8276]

@@TROldSchoolGamer Thanks a lot for the information. : )

[@donfidone7565]

You forgot to put in target: terror that was released for arcades & the Wii in 2007. It was an upgraded version of maximum force with variety of weapons

[@mota7506]

Buen género

[@putzipuh]

@TR Old School Gamer, i miss the old American Laser Games. these are kinda the father of many games.

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

Yeah, all your arcade games are awesome. I didn't put them because I made a video only with them. --->kzbin.info/www/bejne/poGYZ6efnbOCfZo

[@cristiangarcia-uu7rm]

Habra una segunda parte ! De seguro algun olvidado debe haber

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

De Olvidados está el "Elemental Gearbolt"

[@Boatenng]

Good video bro

[@ricardoramirezaparicio5234]

Did you remember a game where in the first level you fight against skull soldiers that looks like soldiers from Vietnam and the boss level was a combat aircraft? , this game had light guns like the house of the dead, I used to play this game in 2006 more or less

[@Spiderman-92k]

ACTION!!!!!!! RELOAD,RELOAD,RELOAD

[@Goomba_Smash]

An hour long video of lightgun games but not a single of the American Laser Games series nor Die Hard, yet several non-lightgun games?

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

I already showed the ones from American Laser in a previous video and didn't want to repeat them. I'll leave the link here for you.: kzbin.info/www/bejne/poGYZ6efnbOCfZo

[@ferhat1983aydin]

Süper

[@alejandro-nz5rj]

Hola genio!!! Espero q te encuentres bien! Una consulta! Quisiera estos juegos en la notebook pero q emulador puedo usar o usas? Desde ya gracias abrazo

[@nicotears]

Thx a lot !!

[@JKL_YT]

Ok...i have gotta know how you play those arcade versions. What soft you using?

[@Willytutorials1738]

Estaba recordando que habia un juego arcade de disparos tipo 3era persona donde estabas sentado, que eran un tipo de soldados que usaban guitarras creo para disparar y volaban entre los enemigos para poder completar los niveles el arcade era por el año 2007 a 2009 no se si alguien lo recuerde ando buscando el nombre (era por la epoca de carnevil y ocean hunter)

[@HeavyWeapon44]

👾

[@SocialistDog]

Hey got a site u mote be able to get these roms

[@unboxingPERFUM]

👍

[@El3ctr0Lun4]

Great list! But please add timestamps! It would be massively helpful!

[@juanmiguel2k]

You know a arcade games that has 4 police characters i don't know the title of game, that's the game i play when I'm in the mall. I don't know if it's Time Crisis or something, the 4 characters in that game is, 1st is Police Woman, 2nd Police Man, 3rd a SWAT, 4th is like an Agent.

[@electricb1]

Where's Point Blank X? That hit arcades in 2015.

[@estebanmillaldeo3649]

Lethal enforce ♥️

[@S.M.Jean-Mahmoud_Ier]

Seeing no HotD on the thumbnail made me question your seriousness for a minute.

[@swapd0]

Star Wars, Bank Panic, Blastedm Starblade y tal vez alguno mas, no son juegos "lightgun"

[@HashBandit]

A ton of games here never used light guns - they used joysticks.

[@robinmeade7573]

Bank Panic is NOT a light gun game! It's a 2 way joystick and 3 buttons game!

[@kucingganteng3148]

You miss Rambo

[@TheMidnightMessiah_]

Bring them heaters out somebody better pray for em

[@HashBandit]

No house of the dead 3 is crazy

[@ankushchatterjee4093]

Bro I am finding a game where the story is in mafias time, I shoot anyone's winkey sounds like duck.

[@edmarz5636]

3:50

[@CaseTheCorvetteMan]

No Mad Dog? No Drug Wars?

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

I have a separate video for American Laser games: kzbin.info/www/bejne/poGYZ6efnbOCfZo

[@CaseTheCorvetteMan]

@@TROldSchoolGamer i'll have a butchers hook

[@RezSkel]

lol life sucked until 1991

[@mikelucas3272]

I prefer no crosshairs at all

[@DENCROW]

Half of these games are NOT "lightguns", they are actually "positional guns", the operation is totally different from one device to another. In mame we play everything with the mouse so it's the same, but in real machines things are very different.(Positional guns are essentially analog sticks mounted in a fixed location with respect to the screen. Light guns, in contrast, have no fixed a priori relationship with a display). La mitad de estos juegos NO son "pistolas de luz", en realidad son "pistolas posicionales", el funcionamiento es totalmente diferente de un dispositivo a otro. En mame, jugamos todo con el mouse, por lo que es lo mismo, pero en las máquinas reales las cosas son muy diferentes. (Las pistolas posicionales son esencialmente palancas analógicas montadas en una ubicación fija con respecto a la pantalla. relación a priori con una pantalla).

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

Pero el vídeo está centrado con los Rail Shooter de perspectiva primera persona. Se que hay algunos que no utilizan siden lightgun como Bank Panic, pero no deja de ser un juego de disparos sobre raíles en perspectiva primera persona. He descartado los de vista en tercera persona para no añadir más juegos estilo Cabal.

[@drady4172]

I have to agree with you, however, the world has moved on with Sinden, gun4ir, and other light gun systems that are preserving the format/games, etc. Mame is a classic, yes, mouse, but all light gun tech can also be mapped in that platform. Either way, we should be a celebration of game preservation!

[@markkilby2012]

Why is everyone buying Siden when Gun4IR is better?

[@malbhet]

I know there are too many lightgun shooters but I was surprised Elemental Gearbolt for the ps1 wasn't shown here.

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

It would be one of the forgotten ones on this list.

[@harshpandey9739]

Hi guys....Can anyone please tell me the name of that japanese retro video game where player jumps and shoots....I dont remember it....

[@OrganizedReactions]

Die Hard Trilogy?