Unicorn Overlord may be my next big game, seems effortless fun.

Cleaning up Astrobot for the platinum and collecting all the bots and puzzle pieces I missed with a guide and I believe I am correct, the game is more fun the second or third run through a level which makes this the perfect example of a Platinum trophy not only enhancing the game but being an integral part of the game which would be much lesser without it. What would have been a seven is now a strong eight. I suppose you could play the game that way ignoring the platinum but gor me the platinum is the goal, I wouldn't bother otherwise and if I hadn't bothered the main path of the game and first blind runs are only very mildly fun but it's so much fun clearing a level when you know the mechanics. Perhaps they leaned too much into keeping things varied and added in too many gadgets.

Got my Sinden Light Gun, and after doing a good chunk of tinkering, replaying classic arcade light gun games like House of the Dead, Time Crisis, Virtua Cop, Lost World: Jurassic Park, Ocean Hunter, or Star Wars Arcade Trilogy again has been beyond exciting

As far as modern games go, been playing the Age of Mythology: Retold new expansion, Immortal Pillars. It's a really nice campaign, and the Chinese Pantheon has been a ton of fun to play in general! Hoping the game gets a nice boost with the recent PS5 release.

Just finished chapter 1 of Split Fiction with Mrs Versus, great first impressions and yeah, WW3 came early and I’m all ready for it 😈😈

WW3 though...? What happened now...

Oh that would be an utter joy. I bought two used PS1's and both were broke on arrival so I gave up on the idea if buying a CRT and a Raycon Light gun but it was for this very reason just for time crisis. Does it hold up? Like are you able to be as skilled as you were 25 years ago? Or has new tech like VR controllers ruined the experience? 

Having crosshairs on screen certainly doesn't hurt

I remember there being an offset you had to adjust quite often but I also remember running through Time Crisis at lightning pace with no missed shots and no deaths that I couldn't recreate in the arcade quite as well as at home with my own gun with zero mechanical difficulties when everything was calobrated on my small little 14 inch screen. You're spoiling yourself, lol, how did you connect it up? CRT or adapter for HD?

Daaaaaamn I was never THAT good! lol Most of these games were arcade only, so I've been using an emulator to play them. Sinden Light Guns were made to work natively will flatscreen TVs. So I hooked up my PC to my 65 inch living room TV and just went to town! The recoil is LEGIT too. So much so it scared my wife in the other room thinking someone had broken a window or something lol. There's both semi-automatic and there's automatic recoil for games like Terminator 2.

I was also able to add HDR and technicolor with a tool called ReShade, so the colors really pop compared to how the games originally were!

That's why I want the original tech so badly, it was never the same in the arcade to the point I suspected they added a varying drift to the target area to put you off. I want this...

And this exact TV with a working PS1, while not the same TV I had in the 90's it's the closest I can find. Problem is the import costs on these things is huge and getting a working PS1, I've gotten two online and one at a car boot sale and none of them have worked but you're making me very jealous. Recoil sounds amazing and good to hear it all works but I'd leave all that fancy stuff for VR oh and BTW if you have VR there is this amazing game called Operation Warcade that's on pretty much ever popular system that recreates the vibe of a lightgun shooter and for some reason is more fun than being in an actual arcade, probably not as fun as your gig but I thought I'd suggest it given the topic.