Light gun
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Oct 26, 2026
MashTheNewtonHOST
I actually do.
MashTheNewtonHOST
Uh, I was going through a phase of trying to pick up some light gun games for the Wii a number of years ago.
MashTheNewtonHOST
And I do have a house of the dead overkill, uh, But I think I also have a house that had two and three and I've played the two and three disc.
MashTheNewtonHOST
I don't think I've played the overkill disc yet.
MashTheNewtonHOST
Went right off the cliff.
AndyTheAndroidHOST
So where Typing the Dead came from? To understand this game, we have to start with a very strange idea from 1999.
AndyTheAndroidHOST
Sega took The House of the Dead 2, a light gun game where you shoot zombies and replaced the gun with a keyboard.
AndyTheAndroidHOST
Instead of aiming, you type the word that pops up over each zombie.
MattHOST
It's a spinoff.
MattHOST
It is a light gun shooter game for PS2.
MattHOST
The price of it, though, has continued to go on up.
MattHOST
Like I mentioned, a loose copy, $69.54.
MattHOST
We'll see.
MattHOST
This is an oddity, though.
MattHOST
If I remember correctly, it got pretty good reviews, but because it was a light gun game, not a lot of people bought it, so the print run was not extremely high.
MattHOST
And it's something a Resident Evil fan would want.
Jamie SmithGUEST
It was always interesting to me.
Jamie SmithGUEST
And like I say, Lightguns kind of at the time wanted a really good game called Rescue Mission.
Jamie SmithGUEST
Anyway, I ended up having this whole kind of treasure trove of stuff.
Jamie SmithGUEST
And they weren't always great.
McKennaHOST
Yeah, just kind of a goofy, fun game.
GooeyHOST
yeah um mercury like what what do you think about uh virtual cop or like are you into these sort of like light gun shooters
Mercury CDXGUEST
oh definitely like uh it was hard for me to find the uh a u.s uh saturn light gun for some reason but like in you know if you like import one from japan that's easy they sold like a billion of them so they're really cheap and uh they're pretty sturdy like the saturn uh light guns, actually a pretty, uh, impressive piece of kit.
Mercury CDXGUEST
I would recommend if like somebody is playing around hardware wise that go for that.
Mercury CDXGUEST
But yeah, virtual cop, I think that's the first 3d, uh, light gun shooter.
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Mercury CDXGUEST
And part of it was maybe there's Virtual Fighter fatigue, but there was something else.
Mercury CDXGUEST
They the the magazine divides games into sections.
Mercury CDXGUEST
uh there's like a general arcade which is like you know like you see candy cabs or whatever and you can like slap any uh pcb into that and you know it's fine but then there's these like dedicated machines and most of the sega games will fall into this it's like you had to buy the whole unit because it comes with like all these uh you know gimmicks yeah like you know light guns or whatever There was no regular arcade release of Virtual Fighter 3 or any Model 3 game.