Rail Shooter

In Toon Crisis, you're a disembodied hand down streets in Soho, blowing away attacking animated characters. "Streets in Soho" is literally that; someone carried a videocamera through Soho. The disembodied hand is likewise a digital photograph of someone's hand, thumb up and forefinger pointing -- how every kid in the universe "makes a gun" when playing Cops & Robbers or the like. The only motion is traversing your "gun" left to right, with the mouse; you shoot with the left mouse button. The opponents, however (and various visual effects) are hand-drawn animation superimposed on the videography of Soho.

If you're looking for an Allied alternative to the old Panzer Commander simulation, this isn't it. But for a budget arcade game featuring tanks, you could do a lot worse than WWII Tank Commander. And let's face it: there aren't many games on this subject these days, particularly on the PC. It just might be what you need to get that arcade aficionado to move past fantasy or first person shooters long enough to take a tank for a test spin....