Shooting Arcade

Atari 2600 · 1989-01-01

Shooting Arcade is one of only two 2600 games to use the light gun (Sentinel was the other), but was never released. This is a shame because Shooting Arcade is a creative light gun target game similar to the Point Blank series, and would have been unique among 2600 games. Interestingly it appears that Shooting Arcade was not developed in the US, but rather in Mexico by a company called Heuristica. How Axlon was invovled is unknown, but they may have simply sub-contracted the game out to Heuristica instead of doing it themselves. Shooting Arcade is really made up of six different scenes t…