On June 24th, Tassei Denki made an initial offering for the G’AIM’E Plug & Play Time Crisis Gun, a device which can play Time Crisis and other lightgun games of its era on a modern television display. Tassei Denki launched its initial offering on Kickstarter here with a fairly modest initial funding request of $48,284 by August 23rd in order to see the project through to completion. As of this writing, 3:00 PM CST On June 25th, the project is already well past this goal. The device now has $370,806 backing it up, that number increasing multiple times even as this article is being written.
There is no news of stretch goals at this time. It is unclear whether Tassei Denki was expecting this strong level of interest, particularly in international territories. Tassei Denki is headquartered in Japan, and the Kickstarter page for the Time Crisis Gun is noteworthy for only really offering preorders for the light gun itself. The various versions of it range in price from $87 to $205. In some cases the difference is explained by extras such as a key chain, although more expensive units also feature Steel Gunner, Steel Gunner 2, and Point Black in addition to Time Crisis, in addition to a pedal controller.
Some units also use the English language version of the games for international customers. The huge success of the device is already begging questions about whether the Plug & Play device may be viable in normal retail environments. In any case, the guns are expected to start shipping in November 2025. So, it probably won’t be too long before Kickstarter backers find out if this conversion of games intended for cathode ray televisions is as authentic to the original experience as Tassei Denki has claimed.
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