RE: NES Duck Hunt - How did the gun actually work?

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NES Duck Hunt - How did the gun actually work?

in gaming •  6 years ago 

"As a kid me and my friends would just move closer and closer to the tv as we tried to "cheat the system" however, as it turns out you could simply point the gun at any illuminated white surface such as a lamp, and you would get a kill every....single... time. Kind of takes the fun out of it though doesn't it."

Kind of like more recently (but still not current by this point, just more recent than this), playing games that involve running on the wii and just shaking the remote instead of actually running... Since those were mostly exergaming games, it kinds of defeats the point of the game.

That's interesting how the gun for the nes duck hunt worked though. I wasn't quite sure how that worked.

Have you seen the VR version of duck hunt?

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i have not seen the VR version and didn't know it existed? Worth checking out?

Just looked it up again and it's actually not Duck Hunt. It's Duck Season which is a parody and doesn't directly reference Duck Hunt but it has their version of the dog in it and everything. I actually thought it was the same people / same studio parodying itself but it's not. I haven't played it myself so I can't give an opinion from actually playing it, but I've watched other people play it and it is interesting.

You actually play a kid playing the game so you can be in the game shooting at ducks (which is different graphically than the NES game) or be in the living room depending on what you are doing in the game and the concept overall is a bit different. I'm not going to spoil too much about how it is different.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/503580/Duck_Season/

I don't have a VR headset but that does look pretty wild. I do like the name of the studio involved in the production!