The Best Arcade Gun Games Ever Made | Friday Night Arcade

CarnEvil is the GOAT. My friend Brian and I basically had an unspoken pact that if we ever saw it in an arcade, theater, pizza place, WHEREVER...we had to play it. At least 2 credits apiece, but usually waaaaay more than that.

Man, nothing dumb or silly about the carnevil story. That's a great memory you have of your friend! Much respect!

Whole games in this recommendation ar fantastic,even some not enter my region(beast buster and carneval). There are some more recommendation based on arcade type:

The sit type shooter: Rail chase 2, boi the shaking and bump on the chair was the best on arcade even to this date

Uzi type shooter: Steel Gunner 1 and 2, 2 is the best

BIG GUN shooter: Alien 3 the Gun and Gunblade, these game are had some chaotic awesome sound and big gun rumble back in the day

Shotgun shooter: Crypt Killer, if i remember, this arcade that introduced shotgun light gun in the arcade, a Konami 4 players arcade madness

Sniper scope: Silent Scope, boi that big 1:1 sniper rifle with scope was once in life time arcade have that

Rifle type: Ghost squad(this is end of era arcade visit for me)

Ah....missed that days; today arcade lacked of shooter type game,immensely.

I absolutely loved Area 51 and Jurassic Park. They had both at the Chuck E Cheese near my house as a kid

Alien Armageddon

Silent scope was great

Where is GUNBLADE???!!!

Missing is under fire and zombie raid

May Kevin rest in peace.

Steel gunner ?

CarnEvil
RIP Midway arcade division. they made an amazing game right before the end of the arcade industry in the USA.
RIP Kevin, real bro

I believe there is still a Lucky & Wild at a beat down old nickel arcade near me - I have had eyes on buying and fixing it for years - it needs massive work - but when it did work in the 90's my dad gave me and my brother as much as he could while we played that game - it was fantastic.

You forgot POINT BLANK

How could u say them things about lethal enforcers now I can take a diss on number 2 and 3 but number one was the goat are u serious that was a good game man its fun despite the everything else.

i remember playing the lost world arcade cabinet as a kid. the way it was made along with the sound system in it really immersed me in to it. also help to kind of blot out the noise from other cabinets in the arcade. lots of good memories with that. i'd then go home and rewatch jurassic park on vhs. if money was no object, i'd get it and "virtual on" just so i could share those experiences with my younger brothers and friends.

I'm so glad you brought up Carnevil! I had fond memories of this game.

It's definately not dumb or silly. It's nostalgia!

It's good times with old friends, or family, and in this case, it's a touching story.

A story that most of us can relate to, in one way or another.

Back in 98, my Sister and Girlfriend would hang out at a 2$ movie theater.

In the lobby they had the Die Hard shooter, where you had to rescue the President's daughter!

The game had a bunch of action and was just balls out crazy. Whenever you Walked by it, the demo would be playing and the game would continuously yell at you, saying "SAVE THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER!"

It was so stupid but we spent a pocket full of quarters on it ;)

Good times!

Cheers from Canada

Fun fact: Michael Jackson (RIP) actually owned a Beast Busters arcade cabinet and during his 1991 world tour, he always brought it along so he can play with his crew or guests after concerts or rehearsals

Kevin lives on forever through this video. RIP

The nostalgia is strong with this video! <3

We had an Operation Wolf cabinet in our post-college party house. It was a blast! And I couldnt remember the name of the game Lucky and Wild until I saw your video! Fond memories of New Jersey arcades with that one!

Whenever you have a memory of a long lost friend it is never dumb, sir. Thanks for the video!

No offense, but "Time Crisis 2 & 3" were better. Not only did #2 bring a second player in to the action(sometimes putting foes into a deadly crossfire), but with #3, while hiding, the players could change weapons depending on what enemies they were facing.

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My Sinden Lightgun arrived yesterday, perfect list for that 👍

Missed my favourite Point Blank
Series !

CarnEvil was excellent 😆

Area 51 was really fun to play because of all the extra stuff/secret stuff you could shoot very quickly throughout the game

I thought the lethal enforcers screamed 80s lol, the cover looked like Miami vice

Sharing a game with friends is a good thing to have. Lucky you have one enthusiastic friend to enjoy a game.

The Jurassic park game you said the sit down seat is based off the jeep wrangler???? Have you even seen the movies? The color pattern is obviously the Ford Explorer that they went through the movie with

jesus christ, the blinking(flashing white light) actually would make me develop some aneurism, can you please chill with that in the future

Ok I'm going to say it, is that McGuyver on the side of Lethal Enforcers?

I’m not ashamed to admit I have played most of these.

Lethal Enforcers, guy pops up point blank "YOU CAN'T SHOOT ME!"

I loved most of these, played them all a ton. I loved Space Gun & Lucky and Wild. Wish there was still a Lucky and Wild cabinet out there, it was a ton of fun.

When I went to Vegas this past summer I went to an Arcade that had a modern day Halo style arcade shooter in a giant sit down cabinet with graphics that looked like Xbox 360 or Xbone? Looked awesome but arcade game’s are so expensive now.

Also had a friend in middle school back in late 90’s who had Time Crisis and Point Blank on Ps1 and I loved playing them at his place. Still wish I had the light gun and games on PS1, nothing like playing a light gun game at home.

I've been watching your channel for years, and after finally watching this video, it all makes sense now why you ask people not to text and drive.

I always thought it was a good message, but unrelated to your videos. Now that it makes sense, I respect it that much more. Sad to hear about Kevin.

Ah yes, Operation Wolf, the game where you invade an unspecified island country to save the same PoW multiple times from an army comprised at least in part of clones of Fidel Castro, while avoiding shooting two VERY overworked nurses, a Mama-san, a member of the Swedish bikini team, and Short Round from Temple of Doom, while pigs and chickens ran everywhere pooping bullets, grenades, and energy drinks.
Good times!😀

When I was little, the earsplitting mortal screams the heroes let out when they died in Crossbow always scared the willies outta me.😥

My favorite arcade light gun games would be Alien 3 The Gun, Jurassic Park, Lost World Jurassic Park, Lethal Enforcers, Operation Wolf, T2 The Arcade Game, Zombie Raid and The House of the Dead. And i have more of them been emulated, but some of them have problems, like Time Crisis, that has very crazy lag problems. And the Are 51 game... well, it doesn't even work!

Beast Busters was the bomb. I still have flash backs of playing this game with my oldest brother in the arcades back in the day.

Confidential Mission :)

Silent Scope?!

Good list. I would have also included "Alien 3: The Gun" and "Gunblade" which is from Sega and is basically like Virtua Cop except you have a giant pulse rifle and are fighting robots from a hovercraft!

I think it's cool and Noble of you to dedicate the last bit of your video to your fallen friend may you rest in peace

I'm pretty sure I saw Lucky and Wild in the Chicago area at Galloping Ghost Arcade. Great game.

The best arcade gun games ever made! Revolution x, "This game isn't great by any stretch of the imagination!" ????? Now why is it included?

Where the heck is Ocean Hunter?!

That's why Nintendo hasn't had any good games lately none to steal from

I'm so sorry hear about about the death of your dear friend Kevin. I'm sure he was a good man. May I ask, is that the origion of the "don't text and drive" warmings you give? Did he text while driving?

RIP Kevin ,you know someone was special when they are remembered fondly over 10 years later. I have great memories of Time Crisis 2 on the PS2. Every Friday night after school I would take the game and my trusty G-con2 over to my friends house who lived a few houses over. I would stay over and we would just play it until the early hours. We completed every mission in every game mode. We were 15 or 16 and thought we were so cool because our parents would let us have 1 or 2 bottles of beer while playing. Great times when your only responsibility over the weekend was to have fun.