Keepin' It Rail: The 10 Best Light-Gun Shooters Of All Time

Just because you can't move around that much when you blow people's heads off doesn't mean a game isn't BADASS.

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Breaking news: First-person shooters pretty much dominate the industry today. So much so that if you don’t have one in your rotation right now, then you’re not a gamer in 2011. It’s as simple as that. And sure, we get it. FPSes are awesome. But you know what’s also awesome? LIGHT GUN RAIL SHOOTERS. You know the kinds of games we’re talking about here, people; the ones where you used to constantly point your gun to the floor so you could, reload, reload, reload! Yeah, those games were the shiiiiit. Scratch that, they still ARE the shit, and even though they're rarer than steak tartare, we still love them, and so we rounded up the the 10 best light-gun rail shooters we've ever played. Duke Nukem ain’t got shit on these titles.

By Rich Knight

10. Duck Hunt (NES, 1985)

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9. Lethal Enforcers (Arcade/SNES/Genesis/PSX, 1992)

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8. Area 51 (Arcade/PSX/Saturn/PC, 1995)

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7. Point Blank (Arcade, 1994; PSX, 1998)

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6. Silent Scope (Arcade/Dreamcast/PS2/Xbox/GBA, 1999)

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5. House of the Dead 2 (Arcade, 1998; Dreamcast, 1999)

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4. Star Wars Trilogy Arcade (Arcade, 1998)

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3. Virtua Cop 2 (Arcade, 1995; Saturn, 1996; Dreamcast, 2000)

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2. Gunblade NY (Arcade, 1995)

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1. Time Crisis II (Arcade, 1998; PS2, 2001)

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