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Does anyone have a list of what 8bit games used the light gun? Preferably playable on a 48k 800.

 

I currently have Bug Hunt & Barnyard Blasters which seem to be the more popular ones and was wondering what else to look for.

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Are you talking cart or disk.

Both if you know of them. Carts seem to be a little easier to come by (at least for me).

 

I'll look for crossbow & Crime Busters. Is Crossbow similar to the arcade version?

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Are you talking cart or disk.

Both if you know of them. Carts seem to be a little easier to come by (at least for me).

 

I'll look for crossbow & Crime Busters. Is Crossbow similar to the arcade version?

 

Crossbow is excellent -- in my opinion, the best light gun game for the XE.

 

Also look for:

 

Barnyard Blaster (excellent)

Sharp Shooters

Bug Hunt (not very good)

 

There's also a program from Antic that you can use to calibrate your light gun.

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You can find most of these on Ebay, pretty easily.

 

I currently have three Light Gun games:

 

Crossbow, which is the best Atari version. The graphics are sharp and it has digitized sound and pretty good gun accuracy.

 

Crime Buster: has good graphics and is fun to play - except for that irritating driving sequence. Ugh.

 

Bug Hunt: This was the XE packin and it kinda sucks. Graphics aren't horrible, but has poor gun accuracy and the game itself is really simple.

 

Is "Operation Blood" a cartridge?

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I was looking to get Crime Busters and Sharp Shooters, but are these games really any good? I did get Crossbow already and it is excellent. Barnyard Blaster is OK but is not as enjoyable to play as Crossbow (Crossbow has more screens and I think the gameplay is more compelling). Using Crossbow as a reference, how do Crime Busters and Sharp Shooters stack up, regarding lightgun accuracy, number of unique screens, enjoyable gameplay, etc.

 

Jim

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Lightgun games for the A8?!?

Well, read the A8FAQ by Michael Current. Somewhere you will find a section: "What Lightgun games are there..." which counts most (if not all) available A8 Lightgun games. Sorry, since I do not own a 48k Atari, I did not list which games will run on Ataris that are smaller than 64kbytes... greetings, Andreas Magenheimer.

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Lightgun games for the A8?!?

Well, read the A8FAQ by Michael Current. Somewhere you will find a section: "What Lightgun games are there..." which counts most (if not all) available A8 Lightgun games. Sorry, since I do not own a 48k Atari, I did not list which games will run on Ataris that are smaller than 64kbytes...  greetings, Andreas Magenheimer.

 

Well, since you're reviving this thread, I should mention that a eBay seller has been hawking copies of Alien Blast for the XE. It's a disk-based light gun version of "Space Invaders"...and isn't a game that you'd want to go very far out of your way to acquire. The seller does ship really quickly, though.

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