RetroN5: Hands on first look

[stardust4ever]

What am I talking with a bunch of teenagers? Yes Columbine. Why are you telling me to "Chill out, dude"?

"Light guns were suppressed for a time in the U.S. after the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and its attendant controversy over video games and gun crime.[36] Since the late 1980s light gun controllers have been generally manufactured to look like toys by painting them in bright colours. In Japan, which lacks the gun crime found in the U.S. and in which civilians cannot legally own guns, more realistic light guns are widely available."

http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Light_gun

I am not a teen. I was a senior in high school when Columbine happened. Terrible. I was like "what if it happened in my school and if it had been my classmates killed?" It was unheard of then, now it's every few months we hear news of people getting shot up in mass shootings.

When I was a little kid in the 80s, my cousin gave me a jet black water pistol shaped like an AK-47. Had so much fun with that thing. This was a couple years before the bright, colorful, and far more powerful "Super Soakers" came out. And yes, I game with a original NES gray, not orange wannabe Zapper. I'd love to own a Famicom Blaster, though I'd have to rewire it or make an adapter to work on my NES. Blasting 8-bit ducks is fun; innocent school children, not so much. I have zero desire to own a real firearm. Less idiots with guns = less shootings. Period.