Suikoden 2, and I highly recommend it. And while Suikoden 1 feels like it has ghetto production and writing by comparison, it’s still a very good game, and playing it first will make Suikoden 2 feel more grounded in the context of the world, cultures, and people in it.

No chance cause of random battles, Idk how anyone can stand being stopped every ten inches. 

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?

The way those light guns work is when you press fire the screen flashes black for a frame with the targets marked as white squares. The gun simply detects the light flash (and exact time it detects it) by looking through a narrow tube, the gun. Thus the smaller the screen, the easier the game gets!

Arcade -> big screen, harder.
Playing it on a bigger screen at home, harder.

You can cheat by pointing the light gun at a strobe light or flickering screen. Get the right frequency and you automatically hit everything.

Playing on modern tvs with input lag doesn't work. The flash needs to be instant, CRT, to be synchronized with the detection routine.

Pretty cool to know but way to hurt my pride.