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  • noun Alternative form of light gun.

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Examples

  • I did score HotD 2&3 plus two lightgun shells today, and have made quite a night out of it with my roommate.

    Are You So Over It? SVGL 2008

  • Available this spring, the Duck Hunter is like a WowWee Dragonfly mashed up with the classic Duck Hunt lightgun shooting game.

    Flying Duck Hunter robot looks familiar - SlipperyBrick.com 2009

  • You have unlimited bullets, shoot offscreen to reload - same as any modern lightgun game, and there's nothing you can't kill by shooting it a few times, so there's no feeling of defenselessness.

    Silent Hill The Arcade tenshi_a 2008

  • You have unlimited bullets, shoot offscreen to reload - same as any modern lightgun game, and there's nothing you can't kill by shooting it a few times, so there's no feeling of defenselessness.

    Archive 2008-07-01 tenshi_a 2008

  • It was awesome, but the neutered U.S. version took away your lightgun.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Resident Evil 4 Wii ad that is a little creepy 2007

  • In the Japanese version, it was a FPS Resident Evil, but you used a lightgun in one hand, and the D-pad half of a controller to move.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Resident Evil 4 Wii ad that is a little creepy 2007

  • She had discovered on Onan that she could take the output of a lightgun and reflect it back on its user.

    Dancer's Illusion Maxwell, Ann 1988

  • She smiled encouragingly and did not add that Fssa no more needed teeth than a lightgun did.

    Dancer's Luck Maxwell, Ann, 1944- 1983

  • Obviously, this isn't the heavily guarded original painting exhibited at the Louvre, as that one is protected with bulletproof glass; you'd need much more than the NES lightgun to shoot down any

    GameSetWatch Eric Caoili 2010

  • Obviously, this isn't the heavily guarded original painting exhibited at the Louvre, as that one is protected with bulletproof glass; you'd need much more than the NES lightgun to shoot down any

    GameSetWatch Eric Caoili 2010

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