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Mars is PDP’s light gun for couch players

Game accessory maker Performance Designed Products wants to bring back good memories of arcade action with a new version of the light gun. The company is unveiling Mars, a light gun that you can play on the couch with a couple of new games.

You could say it’s part of a retro craze in gaming that has entrepreneurs bringing back console hardware like Intellivision and Atari.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.