It's finally here! The Sinden Light Gun - but does it deliver?

It's finally here in The Cave, the light gun that promises to end all of our problems. Light gun games are a special gaming genre. I've always been a huge fan of them, especially light gun arcade games like Time Crisis, Mad Dog McCree and Point Blank. Light gun signals from classic devices which require a CRT are not compatible with modern displays and solutions such as the Aimtrak Light Gun just haven't felt up to the job of delivering an arcade perfect light gun experience. In my Sinden Lightgun review today we find out it works as well as the prototype we first saw in 2019 on a range of arcade emulators including American Laserdiscs classic shooting games.

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[TheRetroCollective]

Thanks for watching! And if you were wondering, yes Andy has confirmed he's working on a driver for the MiSTer so that's one to test just as soon as it becomes available.
Thanks
Neil - RMC

[akamrcam]

It's a mouse input you say? That could make for some interesting zoom meetings. "Why are you shooting at me with your toy gun?" In my head, "Bang! You're muted!"

[BurtKocain]

God, this makes me want to open up an arcade in my garage. Light gun games deserve a comeback.

[Trenchbroom]

Got my two non-recoil guns from the Kickstarter back in November, love them. Plus my kids (who have no interest in all of the rest of Dad's moldy old videogames from the 20th century) love using them.

[Funkby]

As someone who has had to deal with the pain of aimtrak guns, I’m stoked for these!

[digiowl]

The first thing to came to mind when you mentioned the option for a machinegun mode on the recoil, was Terminator 2 the arcade game. Much like Operation Wolf it was not a light gun game in the proper sense, but instead used a pair of guns mounted to "joysticks". But the sound and feel of those guns while rattling away at T-800s and whatsnot instantly leapt to mind.

[bryanchong]

You are so damn right. Sometime my weekend will just be setting up the games/ emulator, getting automation ready, linking up the respective controllers, trouble shooting etc and not playing any games.

[cubeflinger]

Such an excruciating wait but I'm so pleased to see this succeed. Looking forward to receiving my recoil units

[ScottDuensing]

Developer of Singe here - thanks for the mention!

[twodogz]

just ordered mine, hope i get it quick.good luck andy .your a legend

[piiifast]

I've ordered one last year. Just waiting impatiently.

[otakuribo]

Trying to shoot the undertaker in Mad Dog McCree has the same energy as trying to shoot the dog in Duck Hunt

[RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS]

Looks great, looking forward to getting mine sometime in the next twelve years.

[i_am_banished]

JUST GOT MINE TO MY SURPRISE! CAN'T WAIT TO SET IT UP

[alexbiketester]

I think the setup complications are necessary to actually cover almost every type of conceivable option out there. Well done to the development team. Excellent product.

[anonym]

I could imagine doing an interactive Powerpoint presentation with this thing.

[nutzgunz]

Nice! I just received my notification from the Royal Mail that my order has shipped yesterday.

[YasYaBas]

That video thumbnail is utterly mesmerising.

[curiousottman]

Looks really nice. There is no such thing as having too many settings to play with. I’m glad to hear that there are good tuning tools available.

[WalrusFPGA]

looks like a winner! MiSTer compatibility is being looked into also. will be nice to have an alternative to CRT's for light guns! this seems like the closest its come.