The TopGun's slide also kicks back with each shot, which is a particularly cool feature that we've always been sad wasn't incorporated in the GunCon. A tactical looking laser pointer is mounted in front of the trigger guard, and is used for a variety of things, but we'll go into detail later. Obviously, you would not want to do anything dumb like walk down the street with the TopGun sticking out of your pants, as it could legitimately be mistaken for the real thing and get you shot, which would only make the rest of us look stupid too.Ĭoolness doesn't end with the looks either. The slide bears the official, through probably not licensed, Beretta trademarks and has a couple of spots of orange paint for the safety switches, while the rest of the gun is just as detailed and accurate. In an age when any toy gun in America has to look like it was made by Fisher-Price with all kinds of stupid appendages painted in some absurd color like neon purple or orange, it's quite a pleasant surprise to hold a toy gun that doesn't make you feel two years old. When our unit arrived we were immediately impressed with what an accurate reproduction of a Beretta 92F the TopGun is. Since the TopGun is compatible with the Xbox, PS2, and PC (including MAME) we were pretty excited to return to some of our favorite shooting series like House of the Dead and Time Crisis.ĭon't play with it too vigorously. Our buddies at let us know that the LCD TopGun has been selling like hotcakes and shipped us one to test. Happily, a couple of manufacturers have been working hard on a solution, and the first of a new generation of HDTV compatible lightguns are on the market. For quite a while now, if you've been fortunate enough to pick up a hot new TV, your lightgun fun was at an end. From the NES Zapper to Namco's very nice GunCon2, old-school light guns simply won't work with new technology. Rise up! Revolution!Īll joking aside, in case you haven't heard, the move to 100Hz TVs (any modern flat-screen CRT, and all HDTV technologies ) killed lightguns as we know them. What is a problem is when your constitutional right to carry your lightgun of choice is snatched away by big TV manufacturers. I mean, plenty of peeps do all of their killing, and dating, exclusively in the virtual world. There's nothing wrong with turning to videogames to do something you can't do in real life. The rest of us, or perhaps just those that fail background checks, must turn to videogames to live out such glorious visions of carnage. Sadly, such real-life fun is afforded only to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (they are in charge of everything cool).

Few things in life are quite as satisfying as mowing down hordes of evil-doers or innocent bystanders with a hail of righteous gunfire in a consequence-free environment.

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