The old arcade scene was rife with rivalries, and the one between Sega and Namco was among the most heated. While fans argued endlessly about the pro and cons of Virtua Fighter and Tekken, another battle, but no less intense, raged on the sidelines. Lightgun shooters were the ever-popular mainstays, and for a short time, Sega’s Gunblade NY and LA Machineguns were the ostentatious playboys. Both games have been collected in one package for the Wii, but more than a decade later, all of the novelty has faded away.
I recently wrote about my favorite rail shooters, and Gunblade was not even close to being a contender. I never considered Gunblade a good game to begin with. It was an arcade machine designed to siphon quarters at all costs, which I suppose actually made it an excellent game, for Sega. Gunblade was a novelty that existed when polygons were still fresh and able to draw a crowd, no matter how hideous they were. Failing that, the large machinegun controllers gave the cabinet an extra kick of attractive manliness.
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