Zone Hunter^{[lower-alpha 1]} is a virtual reality first-person rail shooter video game developed and published in conjunction by Taito and Virtuality in 1994 for arcades, though the former is not credited in-game.^[2]

Zone Hunter is a first-person shooter, and was one of the first VR arcade games.^[3]

Zone Hunter was developed at the same time as Sega's virtual reality Model 1 arcade game TecWar,^{[lower-alpha 2]} which was also developed by Virtuality.^[4] Taito, who conceived the project and worked alongside Virtuality as a deal to bring the game into Japanese arcade markets under their banner.^[2] Due to low sales in the region, Taito terminated the deal between them and Virtuality, with the latter opening their offices in Japan afterwards.^[2]

A port for the Atari Jaguar was announced and planned to be released alongside the Jaguar VR headset peripheral at launch,^[5][6][7] with a demo created for demonstration purposes,^[8][9][10] but both the port and the peripheral were never released due to problems between Virtuality and Atari Corporation in their deal.^[11][12]

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Computer and Video Games	82/100[13]
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Next Generation said that the game was neither as fun or playable as Doom, nor as "good looking" as Virtua Cop.^[3]