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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The “zapper” (the gun) is just a light detector. When you pull the trigger while playing duck hunt, it does 2 things:

* turns on the light detector

* makes the screen pitch black except for a white square wherever a duck was

If the gun is pointed at the bright square the light detector will notice and register a hit.

If you point the gun at a light source like a brightly lit bulb it will always register hits.

I’m not sure how it resolved *which* target you hit for rounds with multiple targets, though.

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