Game Sack - SNES SuperScope vs Sega Menacer

Episode 1 - In this episode we dare to compare the two official light guns for the SNES and Sega Genesis. Plus we babble a lot. Which plastic light gun is the best?

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• nintendo
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• super
• scope
• menacer
• genesis
• snes
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[AMYuntold]

To say that Sega ripped off Nintendo is pretty stupid since:

1.) Both company had lightguns before on earlier systems.

2.) Sega was the one who made dozens of awesome arcade shooters, so they at one point had to bring it onto their home console...

It is pretty obvious that the very same third party company made both guns, this also defeats right away the suspicion of the Menacer being a rip off on a design side as well.

This show has several issues, but is also bad on facts.

[MrGameSack]

@AMYuntold Both companies having light guns before is irrelevant. The Super Scope came out with a 6-in1 game cartridge. The Menacer wasn't even in the works before the SuperScope was announced. Sega rushed it together with a 6-in-1 game cartridge as well. Sega tried to do one better by having more removable attachments. I'm not sure why you say "the same 3rd party" designed both guns. Do you have any facts to back that one up? Thanks for watching!

[chinitosoccer1]

Do those things work with the Lethal Enforcers games?? and what about the Menacer with Master System Light Phaser games on a SMS Power base converter??

[MrGameSack]

@chinitosoccer1 The Menacer won't work with SMS games because it works in a completely different manner.

[KaskelotenZebbe]

Good comparison. I'm thinking about getting the Menacer just for Body Count (which wasn't released in the US).

[MrGameSack]

@KaskelotenZebbe I wish we knew about that one at the time we made this. Oh well, we didn't cover every Super Scope game either, so maybe in the future...

[JimPlaysGames]

I've been enjoying your more recent videos so I thought I'd go back and look at the first. You seem to be lacking some of the energy of later videos, but that just means you've made some great progress. But all the great Game Sack elements are there like the console rivalry and sound effects for the hardware. Great stuff and I'm really glad you are making these videos. Thanks :D

Also I prefer the Super Scope just because it looks more like Starfleet phaser rifle :)

[Luigi84289]

NES Zapper > Superscope and Menacer

[bust3dstr8]

@AMYuntold 2.) Sega was the one who made dozens of awesome arcade shooters.....wait for it....wait for it.....

on arcade hardware like System 32 and Naomi that was released after System 16 (The System Genesis was based on) So can you explain how Sega had dozens of games waiting to be ported the Genesis.

[MeatMaggot]

You don't even need a Super Scope in order to play the best crosshair shooter on the SNES: Wild Guns (That's probably because it's not designed as a lightgun game :D ).

[WeskerSega]

@chinitosoccer1 For the Lethal Enforcers games you have to use Konami's very own Justifier Gun, which also can be used to play the Snatcher shooting scenes and some other games like the Mag Dog games.

[johnnyjohnson]

Great video guys! Nicely edited and the sound effects were hilarious! I've never tried either of the guns and probably won't unless I would be able to find them for an amazing price.

[superdeadite]

Jacki Crush music :)