17 Facts About Menacer

1.

Menacer is a light gun peripheral released by Sega in 1992 for its Sega Genesis and Sega CD video game consoles.

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2.

The Menacer was announced at the May 1992 Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago and was released later that year.

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3.

Gray, white, and red Menacer is a light gun peripheral for the Sega Genesis.

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4.

The Menacer is built of three separable parts: a pistol, twin sights, and shoulder stock.

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5.

The Menacer has no power switch: it automatically activates when aimed at the television and turns off after 30 seconds without input.

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6.

Menacer was produced in response to the Nintendo Super Scope released several months earlier, though Sega intended to support the peripheral as more than a clone.

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7.

The Menacer is the successor to the Master System's Light Phaser.

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8.

Menacer's prototypes included games based on Joe Montana and David Robinson, but when presented, the company asked for more shooting games and scrapped all license-based games due to their added cost.

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9.

Menacer's translators told the clerk that Senour was responsible for the Menacer, and when Senour offered to autograph their stock, the clerk replied in slow English that Senour could autograph the items he purchased.

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10.

In 2005, Radica created a Menacer-based direct-to-TV dedicated console with the original six-game cartridge built into a light gun controller as part of their Play TV Legends line of Sega Genesis dedicated consoles.

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11.

Sega Force reported that Menacer gameplay registered faster than the Genesis controller.

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12.

Matthew Reynolds of Digital Spy wrote that the Menacer was a poorly executed "flop" that is much less likely to be remembered than its Super Scope competitor, even though the latter did not fare much better.

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13.

Reynolds added that the Menacer was hurt by the poor quality of the pack-in six-game cartridge and a lack of titles in support of the peripheral.

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14.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Andy Pargh said the Menacer was "definitely a winner" in comparison to the Super Scope.

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15.

Sega Force Paul Wooding considered Terminator 2 a "must" for Menacer owners, adding that it far surpassed the quality of the six-pack games.

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16.

Menacer added that the Menacer's small library made collecting easier.

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17.

Edward Fox of The Centre for Computing History has said that the museum's Menacer is his favorite piece in the collection when used with the Aura Interactor haptic suit.

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