Games include the pack-in single-player[4] Menacer 6-game cartridge,[c] which consists of mostly shooting gallery games:[5]
Ready, Aim, Tomatoes! is a spin-off of the original ToeJam & Earl where the player (as ToeJam[6]) fires tomatoes at ToeJam & Earl series enemies for points as the screen scrolls. The scroll speed increases with game duration.[9] The enemies—dentists, devils, and cupids—return fire throughout the ten levels.[3] The game also features power-ups and lock-on targeting, to aid in player accuracy.[9]
In Rockman's Zone, the screen scrolls through streets of houses as the player shoots criminals and refrains from shooting innocent bystanders, for which the player loses a life.[9] In later levels, the criminals return fire faster.[6]
Space Station Defender is similar to Tomatoes! with added memory aspects. In each level, players shoot enemy-filled pods as up to eight drop in a memorizable sequence.[9] There are 999 levels, a Power Zone to charge shots, and power-ups including extra shields.[3]
Whack Ball is comparable to Breakout: the player controls a large ball with the Menacer to push a smaller on-screen ball into color-changing bricks that line the wall. One all of the bricks change color, the player moves to the next level.[9] Some bricks are power-ups that change the larger ball's size or add extra small balls into play.[6] Players who hit flashing bricks are punished. Inadvertently guiding the ball through a hole in the wall ends the game.[9]
In Front Line, the player defends against tanks and airplanes with a machine gun and missiles[9]with unlimited ammo.[3]
In Pest Control, the player's vision is limited to a small area of the screen around the Accu-Sight crosshairs while looking for cockroaches that attempt to eat an on-screen pizza.[9] Two different power-ups briefly illuminate the screen and clear all bugs onscreen.[3] Later levels feature larger insects that contain bombs and small, fast bugs.[6]
Digital Spy mentioned Body Count, Terminator 2: The Arcade Game, and Mad Dog McCree as Menacer's other notable games.[5] Terminator 2 was the first external game to work with the Menacer,[9][27] the only one confirmed as of December 1992.[4] Terminator's programmers, Probe Software, later began work on another Menacer-compatible game.[9] Terminator 2 has a two-player mode that uses one Menacer light gun and one controller.[27][28] Sega Force reported that Menacer gameplay registered faster than the Genesis controller.[27] Mad Dog McCree, a live action Wild West shoot 'em up for the Sega CD, used either a controller or a choice of several light guns: the Menacer, the Konami Justifier, or the game developer's own compatible light gun.[29] In the 1994 Body Count, the player defends Earth from an alien invasion. The Irish Times wrote that the game is "ideally suited for the ... Menacer" and is "to be avoided" otherwise.[30] The Menacer is also compatible with Corpse Killer and American Laser Games' other titles, such as Who Shot Johnny Rock?[31] The light gun does not work with Konami's Lethal Enforcers games or Snatcher,[31] which use the Konami Justifier.[32]