How the Gun on the Original Duck Hunt Worked

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If you’ve ever played Duck Hunt or any of the other NES games that used the NES Zapper gun, you probably at one point or another wondered how the game actually knows where on the TV you are aiming the gun when you pulled the trigger. It turns out, the method for accomplishing this is incredibly simple, as is the gun itself.
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@TodayIFoundOut 5 жыл бұрын

Don't be a quack, check out more TIFO trivia videos like this one about That Time an Olympic Rower Stopped to Let Some Ducks Swim By and Still Won the Gold Medal:

@CurtisDensmore1 5 жыл бұрын

I've been wondering for almost 30 years. What a relief.

@MeepMeep88 7 жыл бұрын

Anyone else went straight up and literally touched the screen with the gun?... And still lost? lol

@javierduran1390 7 жыл бұрын

Magic, the answer is magic

@EugeneAtlas6713 7 жыл бұрын

The dog's laugh still haunts my dreams

@draconas109 7 жыл бұрын

i doubt they "copied" 8-bit guy, you seriously cant copyright a subject in a video, that's like the hydraulic press guy being the only one able to do hydraulic press videos

@glaprince Жыл бұрын

So if you hold the gun to a simple light source instead of the tv and pull the trigger, it will count the hit without even aiming at it…easy

@redgreen2453 7 жыл бұрын

Copied 8bit guy's video from 2 weeks ago? Who cares, Mental Floss did an article about this 6 YEARS ago; no one's doing anything wrong here

@Koyol 7 жыл бұрын

Why are Z's used to denote sleeping?

@nickdiamond309 7 жыл бұрын

I found out 40 yrs ago when someone pointed the gun at a flashlight to hit every target without pointing at the TV. Must've have been an older system.

@hezkiw 4 жыл бұрын

The gun don't shoot the duck, the duck shoot the gun

@OlliOtter 5 жыл бұрын

It’s genius, really. I would’ve never thought that this was how it worked!

@wef6146 3 жыл бұрын

1:34

@yourmom2519 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for revealing one of the great mysteries of my childhood! I can sleep soundly now.

@the1exnay 7 жыл бұрын

I always thought the flash was like representing muzzle flash and stuff, that's so clever!

@houndlifevlogs1055 7 жыл бұрын

Duck hunt games were always fun. Even without the gun and just the mouse haha

@youcefblack9478 4 жыл бұрын

the question of my childhood finally answered

@prajwalgmpp 7 жыл бұрын

:The way a zapper gun works is incredibly simple"

@ChilledfishStick 7 жыл бұрын

I once wrote a short program that could do something similar, with detecting a laser pointer on a screen with targets, but with the technology today, it is a much simpler task.