Playing cowboys and native American indigenous peoples with plastic pretend guns was about the best fun you could have as a six-year old growing up in the wilds of South Yorkshire, SPOnG fondly remembers (perhaps with slightly rose-tinted specs).
Alas, with the modern fear and moral panic over everything and anything to do with guns, it seems that children will not be allowed to play with Nintendo's new Wii Zapper, which is to be slapped with a PEGI 18-rating when it comes out next month.
Perhaps the ban makes a little more sense when you realize that one of the main Wii games to make full use of the gun is the genuinely scary, on-rails survival shooter Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles which Capcom has announced will be hitting shelves on November 30.
Now that Resident Evil 3 remake is less than a month away, here's a look back at the other times Capcom reimagined the 1999 classic game.
Numbered entries aside, there have been a whole host of other Resident Evil games, across multiple platforms. Here are some you might have missed.
By: Ben Thorpe
Hello and Happy New Year from everyone on the PlayStation Now team! We’ve got a fantastic update for all our PS Now subscribers in the UK – you can now get your hands on 23 newly-uploaded titles, bringing the total of playable games up to 150!
Are we ever gonna see psnow in Europe territories such as france, Italy, Germany...
Why are we always getting the same shitty treatment from Sony. Especially considering we are their leading territory.
Hilarious. Stores can sell authentic looking gun controllers for shootem'ups, without an 18 rating, but this? Gah. Idiocy running rampant.
How can toy stores sell toy guns?
Im gonna cap sum punks with my Zapper yo! Also is this for the Zapper with the Zelda game that comes with it or is it for the Resident Evil game?
Eum right. Will they ban those stupid wiimote "sword" accessories too?
Ehh lewl..
There have been light guns for years and I don't think any of them has been rated like this?