How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work?

Re:How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? by Peroni on Monday January 28, 2013 @09:11AM (#5128517)

Little known fact: Duck hunt is a 2 player game.

Control pad - Used with Game A for second player to control duck's flight pattern.

Source: http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/manuals/duckhunt.txt

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Re:How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? by runevault on Monday January 28, 2013 @09:33AM (#5128614)

...I thought everyone knew that. I certainly did that to mess with my friends/siblings as a kid.

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Re:How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? by Peroni on Monday January 28, 2013 @09:37AM (#5128627)

I spent countless hours on that game as a kid and only found out about the 2 player option last year!

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Re:How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? by jug6ernaut on Monday January 28, 2013 @09:29AM (#5128600)

You just blew my mind. I am going to have to test this later!

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Re:How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? by aaronbrethorst on Monday January 28, 2013 @03:24PM (#5130428)

Unfortunately, the Zapper doesn't work on flat screen^H^H^H^H^H^H panel TVs

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/98225/duck-hunt-on...

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Re:How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? by deelowe on Monday January 28, 2013 @03:32PM (#5130472)

Surely you mean non-crts (or flat panel displays)? This is a flat screen tv and it should work just fine with duck-hunt -> http://www.amazon.com/Sony-WEGA-KV-27FS13-27-Flat-Screen/dp/...

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Re:How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? by sneak on Monday January 28, 2013 @05:41PM (#5131202)

Watch it, pedant. We know you know what he meant.

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Re:How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? by deelowe on Thursday January 31, 2013 @09:19AM (#5145062)

It's an important distinction.

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Re:How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? by phaus on Monday January 28, 2013 @09:19PM (#5131994)

Flat-panel displays killed one of my favorite genres of video games. As far as I know, all attempts at producing an modern, accurate light gun have failed. The Nintento Wii tries to act like a light gun controller, but the accuracy is awful.

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Re:How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? by caseysoftware on Monday January 28, 2013 @11:21AM (#5129104)

That's how I won for years. You just keep the controller at your side and hit it at just the right time..

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Re:How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? by FredFredrickson on Monday January 28, 2013 @02:19PM (#5130110)

Or just hold the gun an inch or two away from the screen.

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Re:How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? by rooshdi on Monday January 28, 2013 @10:24AM (#5128821)

Damn.

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