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catesdb posted...

I didn't realize Time Crisis was beatable at arcades! I always figured it was rigged

Almost all the old Japanese light gun games are beatable on one credit, though the longer you survive on one credit the harder the game's adaptive difficulty becomes (the majority of arcade games have this, it's colloquially called "rank," and beating some games on one credit requires careful management of this feature by intentionally losing a life at certain points).

Modern western light gun games, on the other hand, are explicitly not beatable on one credit. They all have settings where the operator decides the minimum and maximum time a single credit can last for. The damage any individual enemy deals you is completely arbitrary and doesn't matter at all. Once you reach that time limit, the next time you get hit it will immediately take all of your health (and there are frequent points at which you will take unavoidable damage).