While still fun, they dont provide the visceral thrill of holding a real light gun.

Instead, the experience is more like fending off a zombie invasion with your TVs remote.

The NES Zapper and Duck Hunt

How could we leave this out?

Oh, and later on clay pigeons, but they arent as cute.

Operation Wolf,however, was everyones favourite, and rightly so.

Saturn Stunner and Virtua Cop

By 1994, light guns had gone through a turbulent few years.

We all know how that one ended up.

Virtua Cop,to be fair, is a great game.

G-Con 45 and Time Crisis

Now this was more like it.

A bad-ass name and a light gun that looked like it could do some damage.

Time Crisisbuilt onVirtua Cops success as a polygon-based shooting game, but introduced an innovative duck button.

It seems light guns and controversy arent easily parted.