GoNintendo sure do come across some great eBay auctions. Today, they've come across this extremely rare light gun called the Mult-Purpose Arcade Combat Simulator (M.A.C.S. for short). The M.A.C.S. were designed by the Military to train soldiers in bootcamp back in the day. The gun was designed to look and feel like a real M16 and only worked with a specially designed game cartridge. Players would have to be about seven feet back from the T.V. for the game to actually work too.
There is no copyright info on the game, so no one knows who made it. As for the game itself, it consists of nine levels and aims to help a soldier with their postioning, aiming, and breathing skills. The gun is currently at $36 and the game is at $26, each with six days left in the auction.
[Info on the M.A.C.S via GamersGraveyard]
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2:22 PM on 01.20.2008
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@F Whipple: I bet there are a bunch of people that will camp it and bid within the last minute.
I saw a modern version of this they had at SHOT show, it even had a pneumatic ram in the buffer tube to simulate recoil.
Still give me the good ole mouse and keyboard combo for offing virtual hadjis.
The fact that people would spend a great deal of money on something that really isn't that useful (or cool at that) really baffles me.
For the kind of money I'm expecting those items to fetch, I could easily get the 1080p LCD screen I was planning to get for use with the PS3
LCD for gaming? I don't know if I'd do that. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but isn't plasma for screens that big a much smarter choice?
If you don't understand, you aren't a collector.
I've got plenty of crap that most gamers would think "useless", but is a part of gaming history. I think it's a very unique piece that should find a place in a nice collection or museum