Each round consists of a total of ten targets to shoot. It also requires a CRT television screen since the Zapper gun will not work with LCD or HDTV's. The game is played from a first-person perspective and requires the NES Zapper light gun, which the player aims and fires at the screen.
In all the games, the player has three attempts to shoot the on-screen targets when they appear.ĭuck Hunt is a shooter game in which the objective is to shoot moving targets on the television screen in mid-flight. The game was released as a Virtual Console title for the Wii U in 2014.ĭuck Hunt offers different game modes, with two focused on shooting ducks (top) and the other focused on shooting clay pigeons (bottom). The last NES release to include Duck Hunt as a pack-in was the Power Set, which came with the Power Pad for that particular release, the multicart added World Class Track Meet as a third selectable game with Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros. The later Action Set was packaged with Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros., which was the pack-in for an upgraded Basic Set unlike with those releases, Nintendo opted to place both games on one cartridge as opposed to having separate individual cartridges. The initial Deluxe Set included Duck Hunt and Gyromite. Upon release as a video game, Duck Hunt became a major commercial success both for arcades and consoles in the 1980s, helping to popularize light gun video games and selling over 28 million copies worldwide.īeginning with the nationwide roll-out of the NES in 1986, Duck Hunt was one of several titles Nintendo included as a pack-in game with some of its releases. Prior to the NES version, Nintendo also made a Duck Hunt game based on the Laser Clay Shooting System released in 1976. The game initially received a positive reception in the mid-1980s, but was later given mild critical praise in retrospective reviews. If the player shoots the required number of ducks in a single round, the player will advance to the next round otherwise, the player will receive a game over. The player receives points upon shooting each duck. The ducks appear one or two at a time, and the player is given three shots to shoot them down. In Duck Hunt, players use the NES Zapper in combination with a CRT television to shoot ducks that appear on the screen. It was then released as a launch game for the NES in North America in October 1985, with it also releasing in Europe two years later. The game was first released in April 1984, in Japan for the Family Computer (Famicom) console and in North America as an arcade game. Light gun shooter, sports, shooting galleryĭuck Hunt is a 1984 light gun shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console and the Nintendo Vs.
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