Electric weapons
Tools theme
Any weapons which discharge electricity in one manner or another at the target.
65
games
15platforms
Alternate names: Electroshock weapons, Electrolasers, Tesla guns, Lightning guns
PS3 2013-02-05
PS4 2015-02-20
WIN 2014-01
WIN 2009-08-18
WIN 2015-02-10
WIN 2005-09-30
WIN 2009-07-29
WIN 2009-10-12
DOS 1997-06-20
WIN 1998-10-31
MAC 1997
X360 2008-11-18
Lightning weapons can be straight beam-like lightnings, arcing lightning, or the kind that spreads about (almost) chaotically.
Note that electric weapons do not necessarily cause anything visible, though that's mainly for contact weapons (which are also the only kind currently used as weapons, though electrolasers are in development).
These can be pure contact weapons like stun prods, projectile weapons that fire a line to the target and shock them at a distance (has no visible electrical activity), or electrolasers which use laser to ionize air and send an electrical shock using that ion "tunnel" as a medium through which to travel unerringly to its target.
Note that electric weapons do not necessarily cause anything visible, though that's mainly for contact weapons (which are also the only kind currently used as weapons, though electrolasers are in development).
These can be pure contact weapons like stun prods, projectile weapons that fire a line to the target and shock them at a distance (has no visible electrical activity), or electrolasers which use laser to ionize air and send an electrical shock using that ion "tunnel" as a medium through which to travel unerringly to its target.
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The first Electric weapons video game was released in 1988.
GT Interactive, Activision, Eidos Interactive and Spike published most of these games.