How did Duck Hunt for Nintendo work?

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It came out nearly 40 years ago. They didn’t put out “real” motion sensing games until 2006. Feels like I’m missing something.

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When you press the trigger, for a moment the screen goes black with a white rectangle where the target is. If the gun detects light, you’ve hit the target.

If there are two targets, there will be a white rectangle on the first target, then 1/60th of a second later – on the second target. Depending on the exact moment the gun detected light, it can tell which target you’ve hit.

To prevent cheating, there’s always a brief moment before the white rectangles appear where the entire screen is black. That way the gun can tell you’re not pointing at a lamp, because it first sees one frame of darkness, then one frame of light.

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