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NeoZeedeater
07-26-2005, 11:43 PM
I'm curious as to what the three pack in games for this peripheral look like. I can't get them to work on emulator. Does anyone have pics?

Cauterize
07-27-2005, 10:11 AM
In the dim dark past when video games consisted of black and white tennis with that distinctive 'boing' , there
was then a new idea of having a seperate gun to fire at the TV screen. The Stack Light Rifle takes the idea a
stage further with a four-part sniper's rifle and high resolution colour.
The rifle is supplied with three games on tape, High Noon, Shooting Gallery and Grouse Shoot for the 48k
Spectrum.
The main pistol is attached to 12ft of cable which ends in a dead-ended ZX81-size connector whcih plugs into
the Spectrums user port. To the pistol you can attach a barrel, stock and telescopic sight.
Of the three games, High Noon requires the greatest skill. In it a cartoon-style gun fighter will walk across the
screen and you six shots with which to kill him. Of the other games, Grouse Shoot entails shooting at rising
birds while in Shooting Gallery you have to shoot a bouncing ball.
The rifle is well-made and suprisingly accurate. It is perhaps regrettable that the present trend towards death
and destruction games should result in the appearance of such a device. If, however, that is what you want,
then it is, arguably, the best of its type.

If you mean what the games look like in gameplay i can help... :P

(I never had that accessory as a child myself... :()

ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-adverts/h/HighNoon.jpg

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^High+Noon$&pub=^Abbex+Electronics$&model=spectrum

However i cant find anything on the other two games and the ROM isnt avaliable for the first game :\

NeoZeedeater
07-28-2005, 12:30 AM
Thanks but yeah I was looking for gameplay screens.

That High Noon game you posted is a different game with the same name. ;)