Atari Light Gun Special (2600, 7800, 8-Bit)

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Atari Light Gun Special

 

Here's a comprehensive list of all the light gun games for the Atari 2600, 7800 and Atari 8-Bit for an upcoming special ZPH stream highlighting this vastly underused peripheral. Please let me know if I missed any!

 

- James

 

Atari 2600 Light Gun Games (Ref 1) :

• Bobby Needs Food (Homebrew)
• Sentinel (Retail)
• Shooting Arcade (Prototype)

 

Atari 7800 Light Gun Games (Ref 1) :

• Ducks Away (Homebrew)
• Alien Brigade (Retail)
• Barnyard Blaster (Retail)
• Crossbow (Retail)
• Meltdown (Retail)
• Sentinel (Retail)

 

Atari 8-Bit Light Gun Games (Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3) :

• Matrix (1985) - Dave Obla / JOYSTICK PORT 1 & GUN PORT 2 / Switch to Light Pen / Press Joystick Direction to Place Tile
• Bug Hunt (1987) - PORT 1 - Alan Murphy & Rob Zdybel
• Barnyard Blaster (1987) - PORT 1- James Zalewski
• Cementerio (1989) - PORT 1 - Pelusa Software
• Crime Buster (1988) - PORT 1 - Ron Andrzejewski & James Zalewski
• Crossbow (1988) - PORT 1 - Sculptured Software for Atari
• Gangsterville (1988) - PORT 1 - Emanuele Bergamini
• Sharp Shooter (1989) - PORT 1 - Matthew Ratcliff
• Light Gun Blaster (1990) - PORT 1 - Andre Willey (1988) / Pedrokko (Enhanced in 1990)
• Geister-Schloss (1992) - PORT 1 - Kemal Ezcan
• Operation Blood (1992) - PORT 1 - Pawel Bulkowski, Pawel Kalinowski, John Maris / Light Gun Version by The Missing Link, 1993
• Operation Blood II - Special Forces (1992) - PORT 2 - P. Kalinowski & P. Bulkowski of Our 5oft for Mirage and ANG / Light gun conversion by Homesoft
• Alien Blast (1993) - PORT 1 - Richard Gore (sometimes mistakenly listed as Alien Invaders)
• Flyshoot (Fly Gun Shooter) (1993) - PORT 1 - Kemal Ezcan for Zong / NOTE: Type RUN"D:Flyshoot.TUR" after error or use fixed version
• Messe Hanau (1995) - PORT 1 - Kemal Ezcan
• Pajaki 2 (1996) - PORT 1 - Arkadiusz Lubaszka for ArSoft
• Guntris (1996) - PORT 1 - Richard Gore
• Bembel Wo (1998) - PORT 1 - Thorsten Butschke
• Schiessen (199x) - PORT 1 - L. Franzky
• Hit The Mole (2004) - PORT 1 - Carsten Strotmann - Not able to get working, reported as such elsewhere.
• Sniper 2007 (2007) - PORT 1 - Přemysl Štefek, Radek Štěrba, Petr Svoboda, František Houra | NOTE: Doesn't work on NTSC
• Gangsters (2007) - PORT 1 - Houra, Pesout, Stefek, Sterba, Svoboda | NOTE: Doesn't work on NTSC
• Click! (2008) - PORT 1 - Chris Martin | NOTE: Doesn't work on NTSC
• Toy'Swap (2015) - PORT 1 - Victor Parada (vitoco) | NOTE: Doesn't work on NTSC
• Ježkovi Voči (2016) - PORT 2 - František Houra (Fandal)

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ZPH LIGHT GUN SPECIAL!

 

ZeroPage Homebrew is playing EVERY LIGHT GUN HOMEBREW for the Atari 2600, 7800 and 8-Bit on today's ZPH stream LIVE on Twitch. We will also be playing the exclusive update of @SmittyB's new light gun game for the Atari 7800! See you there!

 

Games:

• Ducks Away (Exclusive WIP Update | 7800) by Blake Smith @SmittyB
• Every Atari 2600, 7800 & 8-Bit Light Gun Homebrew

Fri Sep 29, 2023 | LIVE @ 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 1AM GMT+1Day

WATCH LIVE: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/
WATCH LATER: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew/

 

NOTE: I've also updated the above list with every light gun game we'll be playing tonight. I believe this is the most comprehensive list for Atari 2600, 7800 and 8-Bit for light gun games on the Internet at this point.