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Gunblade NY & LA Machineguns Wii pack rated by ESRB

by Richard Mitchell on Apr 16th 2010 11:28AM

According to the ESRB, Sega is preparing to rekindle its love affair with light gun game ports for the Wii. Having already released House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return and Ghost Squad on Nintendo's console, it looks like Sega is adding both Gunblade NY and LA Machineguns to the collection of rehashes (in addition to the excellent, original title House of the Dead: Overkill). It appears that both games will be combined in a single package, as the ESRB has rated "Gunblade NY & LA Machineguns Arcade Hits Pack" for Wii.

If you missed out on either game in the arcades of yore, both involved flying around cityscapes and hosing down enemies with machine gun fire. Of course -- barring the release of a massive Wiimote peripheral -- the Wii version probably won't share the arcade version's fierce force feedback. The revelation of continued light gun game ports also raises a very important question: What's a gamer gotta do to get some Virtua Cop? Make it happen, Sega.

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Tags: arcade, esrb, gunblade-ny, gunblade-ny-and-la-machineguns-arcade-hits-pack, la-machineguns, light-gun, Nintendo, sega, Wii

Reader Comments (25)

Awesome!

Oh, cool! I was born in Gunblade, NY!

It was YOU that kept eating my tokens!

Typing of the Dead 2 please? My vocabulary has been getting rusty.

The Wii only has one processor. It doesn't have the power to run Virtua Cop. ;)

Way to all miss a joke, you uptight sissies.

I assume you're making a Saturn reference?

Based on its appearance as the final boss in Segagaga, the Saturn is one powerful machine. It's like some sort of radiant silvergun.

Five years ago a buddy and I spent hours playing throwing Gunblade NY at a local arcade and it was one of the best experiences of my life. I need to hunt down one of these machines ASAP, a Wii port just wouldn't be the same without that gun XD

Yeah we need Virtua Cop, my Saturn version is next to useless with my LCD TV.

Rambo is a pretty poor game.

Your enemies are stupid and your bullets are endless. This might sound like a super-kinda of fun, but once you throw in the occasionally "hyper mode" you soon discover that this is one half-arsed attempt at the genre.

The only saving grace is that there are some really crisp HD cut scenes of Rambo sat in-between every other level or so. However, the Wii doesn't output in HD.

Virtua Cop 1,2 and 3 and Confidential Mission are a must.

And if Namco are listening - which they aren't, but hey - then they should bring over that Razing Storm game. It's pretty much one of the most boombastic games I've played in a long while.

Virtua Cop and Time Crisis. Hear our demands Sega and Namco!

Oh, and Carnevil.

And seeing as how we're asking for things, a pony.

I loved gunblade. Dual machine gun FTW

I'd like to see them port 2spicy. They could use the balance board for the pedals.

There needs to be Radiant Silvergun and more bullet hell shooters on the Wii. Heck, a Donpachi collection would be awesome.

Radiant Silvergun, if it's ever ported, would come to XBLA. That's what the director has said.

I'm still waiting for a home version of the awesome Star Wars Trilogy arcade game. Playing the Boba Fett fight and both Vader duels with the Wii-mote as your saber? YES PLEASE!

Erm... make that one Vader duel. That "both" was supposed to come before Boba Fett. Whoops

that ould be cool, i liked that arcade game, i always wondered why it was never ported to a console.

This is NOT a light gun game. The gun tips are solid black. It's all joystick-driven. If you need proof, look up the manual and calibration method for the game. Or just wave your hand in front of the screen while someone plays.

Same goes for the Terminator 2 Arcade game (Not home versions) and Silent Scope (Not Xbox version). The arcade versions are JOYSTICK-driven, not true light guns. You're just aiming an oversized joystick.

A perfect fit amongst the Wii's "light gun" games, as you're just pushing a cursor around the screen. The lag wouldn't even feel abnormal in this game, as it does in others. I (or somebody else with more money than brains) just needs to build a high-powered haptic feedback gun shell for the Wiimote to play this game properly.

How about the Rambo game?

It's new but incredibly awesome. Like, forged by the God of Badass, upon the Anvil of Mind-blowing, by the hammer of testosterone, using the Fire of Win, out of an alloy made from pure awesome, awesome.

Somebody at Nintendo is kicking themselves right now for not putting a Rumble Pak into the Balance Board.

for LA Machineguns, they need to find a way to capture the shakeyness of the arcade version.

Police Trainer!

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