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What’s the history of light gun games? How does the Zapper work? What other light guns worked on the Nintendo Entertainment System? How many games were compatible? In this video, I try to cover everything. This is the Ultimate Guide to NES Light Guns!
00:00 – Intro
01:17 – A Brief History of Light Guns
11:53 – How Does the Zapper Work?
16:54 – 3rd Party NES Light Guns
28:12 – Light Gun-Required NES Games
43:02 – Light Gun-Optional NES Games
54:25 – Outro / Credits
Special thanks to the Roanoke Pinball Museum for their “Shoot The Bear” footage –
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Barbie Blues
24.07.202211:36 are those kids supposed to look like the Blues Brothers, or -?
Jonathan Kerr
24.07.2022Anyone else read the newspaper article about the 13 year old being shot? He was mentally disabled and playing in his backyard, two police officers shot him.
The authorities answer was to have toy guns painted orange! Unbelievable, only in America.
Theology On Tap
24.07.2022I have mixed feelings about the fact that I will never again need to/get to tell my friends the 15 minute technical story about why I am clutching onto my CRT for my dear life, and why IMO, HDMI TVs are inferior.
Alan Griffin
24.07.2022This is excellently researched and very well put-together. Live your channel. Thanks for the edutainment!
Alan Griffin
24.07.2022Thank goodness I borrowed Gotcha from a friend. That game was terrible.
Abigail S
24.07.2022Day Dreamin Davey
I remember it…but for what reason I can't recall. I never played it, back then or now.
PROMANIA
24.07.2022If anyone wants to play Duck Hunt and Wild Gunman on a modern tv both of them are available on the Wii U Eshop for 5 dollars each. Then you use the Wii Remote as your gun instead.
Theology On Tap
24.07.2022@Gaming Historian Who did the graphics for the game logos in the back half? You have really good full resolution vector logos, were these redrawn, or did you find them somewhere? I'm impressed, they look awesome!
Yoderification
24.07.2022I'm a little disappointed he didn't mention the way to cheat at duck hunt which was to hold a magnifying glass in front of the zapper so that when you shot it would hit the whole screen and guarantee a hit.
Chairman Meow
24.07.202221:09 why lol
Tacti Prints
17.07.2022I’m so glad I found your channel. It’s been hours of gold for us in the office!
ben bone
17.07.2022The fact that this dude is doing earnest product reviews for 35 year old video game technology is amazing. I don't intend that statement insultingly… I genuinely love it.
🐯WHO-DEY🏉
17.07.2022THOMAS HONG shall have his revenge!!!
The Movie Universe
17.07.2022Its too bad the hypershot wasnt somehow converted to be used for the snes. The design would have been perfect for Terminator 2 cause its a lot like the gun in the actual arcade game!
M S
17.07.2022I remember renting Baby Boomer as a kid. My sister and I were like “What the…”
FZ
17.07.2022I want the sub machine gun
Chris Watson
17.07.2022Just found this channel. Love the long form content. Probably going to binge this entire channel 👍🏻 thanks for doing what you do!
Mike Ledger
17.07.2022Great vid!
Drew
17.07.2022I always wanted to shoot that smug dog snickering at me wayyy more than the ducks
Gun Whisperer
17.07.2022Despite it's looks, the Nintendo Zapper has features and ergonomics that are very good for real life firearms. For example, the grip angle and slanted barrel tip (reduces muzzle rise) etc. I am currently building a real .22 magnum target pistol based on it.
There are already existing real guns that also share features and ergonomics with it. The Colt 22 perhaps being the best example.
SansPlayz36
10.07.2022the way you said freaking sub machine gun
Cory Henry
10.07.2022Correct light bulbs will NOT work…..turn the contrast down all the way then yes it will
Phoenix7786
10.07.2022Day Dreamin' Davey actually has several of those "fast draw" levels, and not just the one you accused it of.
Smooth Mallraider
10.07.2022My favorite quote, "if so-and-so, and, such-and-such, it's Game Over"
Tai Malik
10.07.2022Gaming Historian, your videos rock! You are quite honestly the Walter Isaacson of YouTube videogame history! I would highly recommend that you read Isaacson's book called "The Innovators", he also wrote the "Steve Jobs" biography, if you haven't already. Keep on making great history of video games videos, Sir Norm!
Jesse Millar
10.07.2022I have a wii zapper. It's just a piece of plastic. I never used it.
The XtremeBolt Guy
10.07.202252:53 what song is that, I love it!
Emil Wingburen
10.07.2022B
Jeremy Bailey
10.07.2022I thought chiller was bad
Russian Roulette? Ok…
DJ Gaming
10.07.2022Could you put black construction paper on a light and cut a square out for the light gun?
Der VeVeMeister
08.07.2022What an amazing video!
js100serch
08.07.202226:07 Fire!, fire!, fire!, Fuck!!, Fuck Fire!… you can say anything… Fuck!, Ass!, shit, bitch!!…
KODY HALL
08.07.2022ah, Duckhunt. Widely considered the worst video game of all time…
chris herbig
08.07.2022Sorry, but the probeam isn't a gun , it's a sex toy.
2010stoof
08.07.2022Wow. I never knew there were other games lol.
Love these videos. I grew up in these times, born in 85 with my oldest brother born in 82 so we had all the stuff. The stupid glove, the zapper and the track pad for track and field.
I feel old. But also happy I grew up in the transition time where when young there weren't many cell phones and internet was just getting going, so I had a real childhood. Lol
The kids nowadays will never know the joy and cringe of the modem sounds connecting to AOL lol
Marian Pesce
08.07.2022Longest 9 minutes of my life, sounds like you are reading text rather than trying to be dynamic and entertaining to your audience. As a constructive critic try to be less robotic.
Phoenix Black
08.07.2022Don’t forget mcr used light guns in their danger days videos
SCHiZOAFFECTiVE
08.07.2022do you know that you can play nintendo and super nintendo light gun games on modded wii with a pistol wii mote grip.
qubafootbag
08.07.2022Thank you for one another wonderful video. The moment you yell fire to shoot is priceless, i haven't seen anything so hilarious for a long time 😃
GSM Media
08.07.2022We all tried to shoot the dog
Rirrian
07.07.2022This is one of my favorite shows, I'm going through all the episodes too quickly!
FlyBoyEnterprises
07.07.2022As an interesting bonus fact, the Nintendo Zapper gun was featured on an episode of Stargate SG-1 and repurposed as an alien gun.
RONALD HENSON
07.07.2022I remember the original zapper light gun for the original Nintendo entertainment system
J Ad
07.07.2022Sega should have pulled out Bill's Thrills during the congress hearing, see what Lincoln had to say about that.
Atom Virginia
07.07.2022To cool
The Evil Fungi
07.07.2022Norm, Your documentaries are fantastic.
Rodrigo Nogueira Mota
07.07.2022"we in America love our guns"
shows an UK flag.
well played Sir. well played
Ryu rc
07.07.2022I have no idea why I liked the "custom-lion" so much… something about that was really special. I used to have a giraffe that just had a button that would release the string, and a winder on the bottom. Classic
Athena Kuld
07.07.2022Nice to know my state invented something cool.
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