We used to do a thing over on LT where we bought Kickstarter products, brought
them to the channel, unbox them, and it was called Kickfarted, and we're
bringing it to ShortCircuit. This is the game plug-and-play gun for modern
displays. Nailed it. This device allows
us to relive the golden era of arcade and home games where you pointed a thing
at a screen and you shot things. I'm genuinely super excited about this
because I've been eyeing modern uh light
gun devices, but they're really expensive and because it's such a niche
thing, even you know, the ones that can do everything, I'm like, it's not really
worth it. But this is wonderful. It is a very attractive price, which we will get
to later. If you don't know, uh, older light guns don't work on modern displays
because they were designed to work with CRT displays or they're just motion
devices that are pretending like they're a light gun, but it's not quite the
same. This bypasses all of that and makes it really easy. Just plug and
play. You get going. You got a gun in your hand and boom, you're playing
freaking Time Crisis like it's 1997, baby. I don't know when Time Crisis is
from. Is it from 97? Doesn't matter. I got a gun. I'm genuinely excited. This
is uh a little bit different than what we normally do on ShortCircuit. This is
not necessarily a field I have a ton of expertise in. I don't Do you think
there's light gun experts out there? There's got to be light gun experts. We got our hands on the ultimate pack,
which comes with two guns, our little game console for games, one pedal, which
is a bit of a bummer because that means only one player gets to actually get the
full experience and the other's going to have to use buttons for that. But you
also get a cool little enabl pin. I actually am taking this. I don't care
what you say. Uh AC adapters. It's a variable power supply. That's
surprising. I would have thought that would have been very
broken. >> No. Oh, the choose a dent. Not that bad.
The USB is about 20 watts. So, that
gives you an idea of the power of this console because that's sort of one of
the defining features of this ecosystem is you can only play the games that are
on this little console, which is currently four games from before the
time of uh nice graphics. I mean,
they're very charming graphics. It's a little bit disappointing that I can't just plug these into a bunch of
different game consoles and PCs and have it work. But it is understandable. What
is not understandable, unless I specifically show you, is whatever the
heck else is in this box. Yo, little acrylic gun with a vinyl sticker on the
back. That's fun. In Japan, the guns are
actually this color, but because of gun laws in other countries, we get these
blue ones, which is fine. I'm used to this as like the arcade color, so it
doesn't really bother me. Although, it would be nice if these were two different colors. like have this one
orange, one blue. There's just a bunch of this acrylic stuff. Hey, wo, it's a
diarama. That is just genuinely cool. And I am taking this home to put in my
garage. I'm genuinely stoked. Outside of that, inside the box, we have a USBC, an
HDMI, and then this quick start guide. That is kind of cool. It makes me
nostalgic for the era when we actually had instruction manuals in our games.
Ooh, this is pretty cool. Here's a little QR code you can use to get the
files to 3D print holsters for this.
That's a really cool little touch. Instead of selling them as accessories
for the kit, you can just make them at home. That's That's great. Next, we have
our quick start guide. I will keep this around cuz I have a feeling calibrating
these guns might not be as intuitive as I think. We've unboxed everything, but
we haven't talked about the main uh pieces of meat. We got our pedal, which
is a plastic construction, which is a little worrisome. I live through the
Rock Band 2 era where uh the plastic pedals were breaking all the time and
Harmonics would have to send you a new metal pedal. Uh this feels more solid
than those original ones, less solid than the metal ones. There's a little
bit of kind of sway side to side, but unless you're stomping on this really
hard, I think this has a fair bit of life to it. The gun itself, the shape is
wonderful. This feels very familiar, very nostalgic for the arcade light gun
games. No complaints about that. There's no mechanism for this big piece of
plastic to go do the recoil. So, I'm guessing it's just a little motor on the
inside, which leads me to believe this is not going to be the most exciting
recoil. On both sides, we have two buttons. Those feel fine. On the top, we
have an orange piece of plastic. I'm not sure what goes there. And then a switch
to turn our recoil on and off. On the front,
>> stop. >> It's not a real gun. On the on the
front, we have our camera, which is uh the main piece of technology and why
this works. and also why you are not going to be turning off the lights in your room while you game. I like to have
my room dark when I game, but this is such a physical experience. It doesn't
bother me the same. I'm not as immersed into these kinds of light gun games,
especially these early ones that I'll be playing. One really nice thing is that
the guns and pedals seem to have a very long cable. It says 4 m for the guns,
and that's great because that means you can have the console right by your TV,
and you can kind of get some distance. You could presumably use a screen up to
150 inches, like a projector screen. That would be that would be something.
They also recommend to not have any other screens around because it might
confuse their systems. Uh their screen detections, there might just be all
kinds of interference. Uh so that's definitely something to consider. If you're someone that has like five
screens that you're planning to play around, you'll either have to turn them off or move them or uh take a risk just
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>> Okay, we're mean. Oh, that's kind of
cool. Most light guns I've ever used in my life, the sights are totally useless.
You kind of just get a feel for how off everything is. But if it is that
accurate where it's like asking you to be careful about how you calibrate, this
is actually kind of exciting. So, it's vibrating my hand cuz I have the recoil
on. It is very much an old school rumble
motor where there's just a weight spinning around. A little bit
disappointed. Um, but I knew it wasn't going to be as
cool as I wanted. Oh, it's crazy. I feel like I'm so far off to how I want to aim
it. >> You're not doing it correctly. >> Look, I'm hosting a video. It's hard.
But I'm literally lining it up. >> Can I try? >> Hey, stay out of this video. He's got to
figure it out. He's got to learn. >> Let's go. So, it is super off cuz now
I'm aiming like an inch above where I would aim with a real gun. Whereas this
is like, okay, I've got to calibrate so far off. Okay, this is Tom Cris graphics
are crazy back then. Oh, this is crazy cuz it's high resolution, so it's really
sharp in some ways, but then really dated looking in others. Like those
textures are very ' 90s, but the
resolution is actually quite high. It's sick as hell. And now they design games
like this. So, I'm a big fan of Time Crisis 4. Me and my friend from high
school, we used to play that at the movie theater every time we would go to
go to it. Use any money we had, but I don't know if I've ever played the first
one. The game might be old. The hardware might be a little bit cheap, but boy
golly, am I having a good time. Boy golly, it's just not the kind of
experience you really get to have much anymore cuz arcades are gone. Movie
theaters barely even have arcade machines. Yo, no, no, no, no. Get out of
here. I think my calibration's a little bit off, but it doesn't feel like super
accurate, but it never did. Even on like the arcade machines, it never felt truly
remarkably accurate. Yo, >> let's do a multiplayer.
>> Oh, you want to play? >> Yeah. >> It's my pedal, though. So, once we plug
in your controller, we lose the pedal. Do you know the button we press to
cover? >> Yes. Also, Time Crisis is only single player.
>> Oh, >> and I'm realizing cuz I was also disappointed that you can only use two
guns or one gun and a pedal. I don't think the other games that are multiplayer use pedals.
>> It's such a shame because the idea is good, the price is fine. If there was
expandability, if you could buy like five games for 10 bucks or something and
there was you could get enough pedals and and guns to make it all work, that
would be freaking sweet. >> Yeah, single player only is a big bummer. I am very excited to play some
point blank. I played a lot in Japan. They have like point blank X and it's
awesome. I've never played the original though. >> Oh, that does not look good. So, pixel
scaling is a complicated thing and this is not doing it right. This looks like
some kind of bilinear just stretching.
Now you get to see how hard it is. Damn it. >> I don't know why you can't calibrate it.
>> It is weird. Okay, let's get beginner stage. >> Well, I don't want to blow you out of
the water in your first try. So,
>> no. I got to say already this is pretty fun. >> It's super fun. It's genuinely like a
great little product. The the quality is good enough. It's just only four games
is such a bummer. >> Mhm. I think it's not super accurate,
but I mean, you're doing better than me, so maybe it's just me sucking. It just doesn't feel super tight to me. Yeah,
you destroyed me on that one. But it's sweet. This is fun. >> Yeah, I'm having blast.
>> It's the kind of thing that it would be awesome to pull out at Christmas with like your uncle and be like, "Yo,
remember these?" >> Well, how much does it cost? >> Actually, not too bad. Just the gun, 70
bucks. The pack we got with everything, all the little extras. Is $200,
which is fairly expensive. Not in the world of arcade accessories, but in the
world of small experiences you'll probably get over in a couple of days.
And that's the challenge is this is actually super fun, super cool, but
you're going to run out of fun to have with it fairly quick. But if you're a
big light gun enthusiast and you have nostalgia for this kind of arcade shoot
them up game, this is freaking cool. I have no major complaints. I think it's
fairly priced. A Cinden light gun, just one, is almost the price of this entire
package. And so I think the price is pretty fair for this. And maybe, who
knows, don't buy it on this promise, but maybe they can update it in the future.
We'll see. If $200 is a little steep for you, but you still want your light gun
action. There is a $100 package that comes with a gun and one game with
currently no way of upgrading past that one game. That's a huge bummer. I know
that there's a licensing fee for each game that they have with the console, but four is already a small amount. So
to trim it down to one seems a little bit silly, and then at a 100 bucks, that
seems like a worse value. I'd rather spend the 200 bucks, get two guns,
pedal, four games than 100 bucks, uh, and get the cheaper package. So, you can
go check out their website, see if there's a package that works for you. Uh, but if you want more gun related
gaming content, I recently unboxed the Ragnarok Gun mouse 2, which is a mouse
that is like a gun sort of. It's different. It's cool, just like you are
if you keep watching ShortCircuit. Thank you so much.