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 M16A2 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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Original post by mrdestructoid@gmail.com (Destructoid.com) and software by Elliott Back
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