Anyone else, as kids, use the Zapper by putting the gun right on the TV, Point Blank style? Ranking Black Box NES Games - ruclips.net/video/_Eu0H3I0cKA/видео.html
Exactly. How are you going to talk about Wild Gunman and not mention BTTF? edit: And MIB gets a shout out for a game that isn't in the movie? Love you John and appreciate the content you just confuse me sometimes.
A very young Elijah Wood (the other kid relatively unknown) in I think one of his first roles. Best known these days as Frodo in the Lord of the Rings movies of the 2000s. A better kid actor in my opinion than the kid star of the time Macaulay Culkin, though oddly maybe not so much when they appeared together in the Good Son where Culkin's character actually fit his acting style.
Man I wanted the grey zapper when I was a kid! I had the orange one. I also don’t think it’s insensitive that you’re shooting people in Shooting Gallery, pretty much every other game you’re shooting people too and cowboys and Indians would have been acceptable up until a few years ago, there’s a lot of other things to worry about besides a cowboys and Indians Nintendo zapper game.
Trick Shooting is based on an old TV show from the States called Barker Bill, and the game is actually called Barker Bill's Trick Shooting. The dog is meant to be the one from Duck Hunt as well, apparently.
Hogans Alley used cardboard cutouts in game because it is based on Hogans Alley in Quantico where the FBI trained agents in "real life" scenarios using cardboard cutouts placed in different parts of Hogans Alley.
Man, I loved Gotcha as a kid. I still hear the "targeting music" in my head when I am scanning the shelves for items I want in the store. See chips...see kettle cooked... scan for jalapeno flavor...see it...gotcha. 😋
Love them all NES Zapper games! Duck Hunt, Wild Gunman, Hogan's Alley, Gotcha! The Sport!, The Adventures of Bayou Billy, Operation Wolf, Mechanized Attack, Laser Invasion, Day Dreamin' Davey, etc.
Note that Duck Hunt, Wild Gunman, and Hogan’s Alley were ported to the Wii U virtual console. You can play them with a Wii remote on a modern TV, no CRT necessary.
I remember when you got to level 30 on Duck Hunt the game became almost impossible. The ducks flew so fast in all directions like they were on crack. Still, it was a classic.
A lot of people panned To The Earth because of its speed and difficulty. I admit it was brutal in the days when I was a kid but, now I can beat the game without coming in front of the screen. Once you trained enough and master all the other zapper games, then finally it's the time to play To The Earth.
"Wild Gunman", the NES shooting game famously featured (through for-the-movie animation) as an arcade cabinet in "Back to the Future Part II", originally started in 1974 as an electromechanical arcade game by Nintendo which made use of a 16 mm film projector showing footage of live-action bandits. Unfortunately, that game is now very rare as a cabinet and was never ported to computers or consoles, leaving us only with the NES version, but the thing that most people don't know is that it wasn't the only Nintendo electromechanical shooting gallery-type game from the 1970s, when their only video games were the Color TV-Games, they had a whole line of them.
I love to the earth. Played it at my grandparents house. Tried everything including putting the gun on the tv to beat it. Hard game. Cool ships, bosses, and movements.
Another thing I need to mention. I picked up freedom force just yesterday!! Awesome game. I’ve been jonesing for some Lethal enforcers, but my zapper is the only hun I have. And I saw Freedom Force and went for it. Very cool game
didn't know Wild Gunman is that old, as it looks very nice. Duck Hunt, Wild Gunman and Hoogans Alley that's. the zapper games I used to play. Still have my old Zapper here but no CRT hehe...
Yes! Loved that corded weapon! How many ducks suffered? How many cans twirled? How many criminals (looking almost identical to citizens) had to be shot! Love me some light gun 😁
Clicked and liked so fast without watching this. I didnt find out til SUPER late that GOTCHA! had a movie. I actually like that game. Was my 2nd zapper game I ever had before Hogans Alley. We are talking Winter of 1988. My duck Hunk was a SMB twin cart. The Can game in Hogans Alley I enjoy. I actually prefer the controller for Operation Wolf. I didn't get Freedom Force until like 2017. Its kind of a .....hidden jem? its short and hard. Nice vid man!!!! I'm happy that I can make RUclips videos again. and its funny how our styles are SO close.
Glad to see Freedom Force on here. Chiller was another one of my favorites, but unlicensed. If you haven't already as a kid, check out the Chiller arcade cabinet, it's over the top and shocking. Other shocking moments , playing either Mad World or House of the Dead Overkill on the family friendly Wii. LoL . Great vid as always 🤟✨✨✨
Maybe they got frustrated not knowing how to play it. It’s a great capture the flag game. I used to play it as a team with my friend, taking turns in the gun and controller.
Hey, John, I had an idea: why don't you make a video about the best third-party NES controllers and peripherals? I think people usually mostly think only about official Nintendo products, but I heard there were some good ones from other companies, too.
I loved playing the shooting gallery as a kid, my states largest amusement park had one but I think they removed it from the park. I can't remember for sure, I haven't been there in 20+ years.
Hogan's Alley was based on an actual shooting range used for military training at Camp Perry, hence all the "cardboard cutout" imagery. It has since reopened at Quantico as a 10-acre simulated city used for FBI training.
I brother and I got Trick Shooting second hand in the late 90s and always considered such a good zapper game compared to all we knew for the genre: Duck Hunt. Glad to see it get some love because it’s very good. Also nice go see someone else who prefers clay shooting in Duck Hunt. I almost never play the Duck modes.
To the Earth was actually the first game I got with the NES. My brother got Captain Skyhawk, and we were to share SMB1/Duck Hunt, which came with the system. Needless to say, we still stuck mostly to the C64 until we got Dragon Warrior(Quest) 1, Mega Man 3, 4, and 6, SMB3, and a few others I don't remember that well these days. We had Duck Tales too, but dad broke the cartridge in half. It eventually went that the NES and later Genesis were for platformers and other action titles, with few to no RPGs, while all our RPGs were on the C64 or our 386 DOS machine. I still have never played a single Metroid or Castlevania game. I only played a Kirby game this year.
wow I mean, even Gyruss took you a few levels to get to you... er Uranus so I guess it has that going for it? :P also I looked it up and the '1P can control the duck' thing in duck hunt *is* in the manual!
I REALLY REALLY REALLY WISH Nintendo or whoever could release all zapper games that work in touch screen on the switch or iPad. Imagine Gumshoe on switch??? Cmon Riggs! Make it happen❤️ if it’s available already, lemme know!
John clearly used a mouse cursor for the games, so he played it as emulation on a computerscreen. Implementing a touch screen would be easy at this point because its not different from a controller/mouse. However i dont think Nintendo has much interest in releasing old games on their platform. If you dont know about them yet, i advice you to read about Emulators. They run on almost every PC.
@@thomasherzog86, I have played Point Blank on the PS1 with a gamepad (to test it, hoping to get a CRT at some point in time...) - it ain't the same as aiming light-gun and I'd imagine it would be the same with a touchscreen or mouse cursor.
You really should’ve added Chiller to this list, even if it is unlicensed, since it supported 2 simultaneous players, each with their own zapper. Also, Super Russian Roulette is great fun as a silly party game.
Just grabbed some Nyko Perfect Shots and been playing Duck Hunt on Wii U Virtual Console. Gonna have to pick up the other zapper games (that they have), Wild Gunman, Hogan's Alley and The Adventures of Bayou Billy. Wish they had all the games on your list. Very cool!
I remember seeing Gumshoe in the store and was puzzled by it. Mainly because I thought the guy looked a bit silly. Brought it home and didn't know it was a Zapper game and everyone tried to figure out how to play the game as we didn't think we had to check the instructions or anything yet (as it's usually me that look through manuals on our way home, but I didn't get to for this game). Later found out it was a Zapper game and it was a really fun game. I would wonder though. Has some mobile games got ideas from something like this? Because when I remembered Gumshoe again a few years ago, I realized Super Mario Run was really close to it. Mario constantly moving, you had to poke/shoot him to make him jump to get around things or get his coins/balloons and dodging obstacles.
I have a few zapper games I really like to play you know you got to love duck hunt or gumshoe. I've even tried to get past the third level of baby boomer. Though I don't think I've ever done that. Freedom Force of all of them that would be my all-time favorite light gun game for the NES not only just because it probably does have the best opening cutscene of maybe any game on the entire system or pretty close. Part of it is just the mechanics of how it plays and how close it almost seems to an arcade with how you pick up the power-ups and like how if you hit the wrong ones you'll make the game harder and if you ever notice the health power up is always the one that moves by really really quick. And how if you use up all your ammo I don't think you can get any more or you have to wait for the occasional ammo pickup. Very complex game but one of my favorite NES games overall. In fact I don't think I've ever gotten past stage 4
I had Wild Gunman and Duck Hunt as a kid. A few years ago I saw Freedom Force in my local vintage store. Never heard of it ‘til that point. I picked it up and glad I did. It’s great.
Gotcha! makes me wish that that's how the panning interludes in Top Secret Episode worked. That would have been weirdly frantic to have to pick up the gun.
I still more fondly remember the Vs. Hogan's Alley and Duck Hunt arcade games where the stages appeared back-to-back rather than selecting them from the menu and playing just the one until boredom set in. Maybe though that's because I didn't get a Zapper until much later, well after the peak of these two games.
When I was a kid my Grandma would yell at us for walking in front of the Zapper. She would say "You're going to get nailed!". It still makes me laugh when I think about it. I was 5 or 6 at the time.
Hogan’s alley was my favorite nes game ever. There was a 711 across the street from my house in the 80s/90s and they had a Hogan’s alley arcade game.. I spent hours playing it, then my parents bought me the nes version. The nes version was way easier but I still played it for hours along with duck hunt
I rented Gotcha as a kid, and didn't know that the controller was needed. We just sat there and thought it was broke all weekend until it was almost time to take it back, and someone touched the controller and we saw the screen move 🤦♂️ I later bought the game, and it became my favorite zapper game.
3:02 I hear John talking about insensitivity but don't really see it. It's a typical western. Cowboys, Indians, the desert. It should've had some Mexicans though.
*GASP* He did it! The NES ZAPPER RANKING!!!! I dont suppose you would do an Aladdin Deck Enhancer ranking video??? I know AVGN Blew them all up, but still...
Now this is a great topic! I have a 27" CRT in my game room and love zapper games. So much better than wii games using a cursor. I picked up Shooting range the other day and it's so terrible. Was really cheap so I'm not mad I bought it, but it was a missed opportunity. wild gunman is my jam. But you gave me some more games to look for.
Today I learn you could control the ducks in Duck Hunt... It's not getting the ability to shoot the dog (which I heard is in one version of Duck Hunt out there, some championship version), but it's still an interesting thing I wish I knew.
I ended up buying a bunch of the VC nes lightgun games for my Wii-U so I could keep playing them. I have a nice 36” CRT for all my old school lightgun game goodness but life rarely gives me a chance to play on it anymore.😥
I only had three of these games (Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley, and Gotcha) but I had a good time with them, personally I would rate Gotcha higher but that's just me. I had some fun with that game.
I never knew there were so many games that used the gun. Back in the day all I knew about was duck hunt and Bayou Billy. Always wondered why they didn't make hundreds of games for the gun. I would think at some point in time, they'll make guns for first person shooters in VR, that is if they don't already and it should be a massive, massive hit and take over the gaming industry.
'Hogan's Alley' is the name of the mock town used as a tactical training facility by the FBI since 1987. The term is also sometimes used generically to refer to any shooting range devoted to tactical training. The original 'Hogan's Alley' was located at the Special Police School at Camp Perry, Ohio. It was closed down just prior to World War II, but reopened in 1956, at which time it was likely used by the FBI; this was probably the inspiration for the video game of the same name, and is why the player shoots cardboard cut-outs - because the game is meant to be an electronic approximation, to some degree, of the training facility from which it takes its name.
I need to get my hands on an old CRT TV to get the right experience, and to be able to play those zapper games. I didn't know about all these games. I've got Duck Hunt and Trick Shooting.
Aww, you didn't mention that you can shoot the dog in Barker Bill's Trick Shooting. You can finally get revenge on the dog for laughing at you in Duck Hunt!
Amazing to think the major console that came before the NES was the Atari 2600 - people must have thought it was some kind of sourcery being able to shoot a gun at your TV to interact with it and graphics and game play are just WAY beyond anything the 2600 could have produced.
I had a pair of Gotcha guns. They did not use paintballs (at least the ones I had), so that would be why you wouldn't call it paintball. They had a rotating magazine/cartridge with 6 shots or so. It had paint jammed and sealed into recesses in that cartridge. It just spat paint out when you shot it. So the range was awful compared to a ball that shoots out and breaks on impact. I think later they just started making paintball guns but were already being out-competed in that market. So yeah, Gotcha... not quite paintball.
I had quite a few master system light gun games and loads on ps1 only 2 I think for NES though. Always looked at the SNES bazooka as an amazing accessory but still never used one.
Anyone else, as kids, use the Zapper by putting the gun right on the TV, Point Blank style?
Ranking Black Box NES Games - ruclips.net/video/_Eu0H3I0cKA/видео.html
My Grandmother told me if I put the zapper right on the TV, it would break the TV. I think she really believed that it would so I never tried it.
Yeah I used to do that on Duck Hunt.
Guilty o/
My 6 year old son figured this out all on his own. Hilarious!!!!
I did point blank range whenever I started losing in Duck Hunt.
Now I hold the gun sideways like a wannabe gangster. lol
Don't forget, wild gunman was featured in the 2nd back to the Future movie
That's a baby's toy!!
@@magnusdiridian And to top that one of the kids would later be in The Lord Of The Rings motion picture trilogy.
7:10 “You mean you have to use your hands? That’s like a baby’s toy.”
Exactly. How are you going to talk about Wild Gunman and not mention BTTF? edit: And MIB gets a shout out for a game that isn't in the movie? Love you John and appreciate the content you just confuse me sometimes.
A very young Elijah Wood (the other kid relatively unknown) in I think one of his first roles. Best known these days as Frodo in the Lord of the Rings movies of the 2000s. A better kid actor in my opinion than the kid star of the time Macaulay Culkin, though oddly maybe not so much when they appeared together in the Good Son where Culkin's character actually fit his acting style.
I was showing the game to my sister and she freaked because of BTTF part 2
@Stop Banningme ask Futurama. Flexo has a beard. Also it is a play on the evil twin with a beard trope.
I've always loved Hogan's Alley; my favorite part is how the palette changes for the scenery every few rounds in Mode B.
John always cheers me up when I'm down
Same
Same here
Man I wanted the grey zapper when I was a kid! I had the orange one. I also don’t think it’s insensitive that you’re shooting people in Shooting Gallery, pretty much every other game you’re shooting people too and cowboys and Indians would have been acceptable up until a few years ago, there’s a lot of other things to worry about besides a cowboys and Indians Nintendo zapper game.
That's funny because I had the gray zapper and I always wanted the orange one because I like popping colors
@@smerk429You guys should trade 😂
I also had the grey one and wanted the orange one
Trick Shooting is based on an old TV show from the States called Barker Bill, and the game is actually called Barker Bill's Trick Shooting. The dog is meant to be the one from Duck Hunt as well, apparently.
Previous generation : video game is like virtual shooting gallery
John Riggs : shooting gallery is like live action video game
Hogans Alley used cardboard cutouts in game because it is based on Hogans Alley in Quantico where the FBI trained agents in "real life" scenarios using cardboard cutouts placed in different parts of Hogans Alley.
FBI Hogan's Alley was opened in 1987 but the game is from 1984
The first Hogans Alleys were training facilities set up in the 1920’s
Sounds like a stapler
That’s what I thought too lol
I wish my stapler sounded like the zapper
Man, I loved Gotcha as a kid.
I still hear the "targeting music" in my head when I am scanning the shelves for items I want in the store.
See chips...see kettle cooked... scan for jalapeno flavor...see it...gotcha.
😋
Love them all NES Zapper games! Duck Hunt, Wild Gunman, Hogan's Alley, Gotcha! The Sport!, The Adventures of Bayou Billy, Operation Wolf, Mechanized Attack, Laser Invasion, Day Dreamin' Davey, etc.
for some reason nes gun dont work on 1080p tvs
Gotta love gumshoe. That was one of my favorite zapper games.
Note that Duck Hunt, Wild Gunman, and Hogan’s Alley were ported to the Wii U virtual console. You can play them with a Wii remote on a modern TV, no CRT necessary.
Can you play'em on the gamepad as well?
6:13 Now we're gonna have to make a rom hack where the dog pops out and laughs at you in clay target mode.
haha. We should do that for any shooting games.
He does in the arcade version
I remember when you got to level 30 on Duck Hunt the game became almost impossible. The ducks flew so fast in all directions like they were on crack. Still, it was a classic.
They probably had a quack addiction
Maybe someone feed the ducks with Rebull
Yet that game has 99 levels. So rediculous.
Lol I just commented on your IG post and then got the notification for this video.
Hogan's Alley was always my favorite light gun game.
What's his IG name?
@@JasonMontell2501 johnblueriggs
That bear looks like it's on loan from Showbiz Pizza.
A lot of people panned To The Earth because of its speed and difficulty. I admit it was brutal in the days when I was a kid but, now I can beat the game without coming in front of the screen. Once you trained enough and master all the other zapper games, then finally it's the time to play To The Earth.
"Wild Gunman", the NES shooting game famously featured (through for-the-movie animation) as an arcade cabinet in "Back to the Future Part II", originally started in 1974 as an electromechanical arcade game by Nintendo which made use of a 16 mm film projector showing footage of live-action bandits. Unfortunately, that game is now very rare as a cabinet and was never ported to computers or consoles, leaving us only with the NES version, but the thing that most people don't know is that it wasn't the only Nintendo electromechanical shooting gallery-type game from the 1970s, when their only video games were the Color TV-Games, they had a whole line of them.
I love to the earth. Played it at my grandparents house. Tried everything including putting the gun on the tv to beat it. Hard game. Cool ships, bosses, and movements.
Another thing I need to mention. I picked up freedom force just yesterday!! Awesome game. I’ve been jonesing for some Lethal enforcers, but my zapper is the only hun I have. And I saw Freedom Force and went for it. Very cool game
Came here specifically to see where you ranked Freedom Force :). It's one of my all time favorites.
Me too! Awesome game. And it has blood spatter in it.
Also an excellent soundtrack
What other light gun game lets you play Wheel of Fortune with a firearm?
Its nostalgia glasses, for sure, but duck hunt will always be #1 on my list. Also, John, you oughta teach that kid of yours to hold a rifle proper! 🤣
They didn't ask, they just went for it. I tried to but they said this was easier. Oh well. Glad it's not real.
@@JohnRiggs lol, fair enough! Hey thanks for the videos man, it's always fun :)
didn't know Wild Gunman is that old, as it looks very nice.
Duck Hunt, Wild Gunman and Hoogans Alley that's. the zapper games I used to play. Still have my old Zapper here but no CRT hehe...
Yes! Loved that corded weapon! How many ducks suffered? How many cans twirled? How many criminals (looking almost identical to citizens) had to be shot! Love me some light gun 😁
Thanks for the content Mister Riggs.
Anytime, playa'
Heck yes, the NES Zapper is my jam. Great stuff!
Clicked and liked so fast without watching this. I didnt find out til SUPER late that GOTCHA! had a movie. I actually like that game. Was my 2nd zapper game I ever had before Hogans Alley. We are talking Winter of 1988. My duck Hunk was a SMB twin cart. The Can game in Hogans Alley I enjoy. I actually prefer the controller for Operation Wolf. I didn't get Freedom Force until like 2017. Its kind of a .....hidden jem? its short and hard. Nice vid man!!!! I'm happy that I can make RUclips videos again. and its funny how our styles are SO close.
John ...I spit my coffee out onto my car dashboard when I saw your kid holding the rifle like an RPG
Glad to see Freedom Force on here. Chiller was another one of my favorites, but unlicensed. If you haven't already as a kid, check out the Chiller arcade cabinet, it's over the top and shocking. Other shocking moments , playing either Mad World or House of the Dead Overkill on the family friendly Wii. LoL . Great vid as always 🤟✨✨✨
I still have my Orange Zapper. 😂
Me too!
Yep! Same. Oddly I couldn't find it but had my grey one handy. The orange may have made for a better thumbnail and it stands out more
@@JohnRiggs Just as well for me, as I appreciated seeing it in the original color. Do you have a Famicom with the more realistic revolver-style gun?
I have an FS2000 bullpup rifle, the trigger feels and sounds almost exactly like the Zapper light gun. More recoil though.
People always seem to hate Gotcha!, but I think it's an excellent Zapper game.
Maybe they got frustrated not knowing how to play it. It’s a great capture the flag game. I used to play it as a team with my friend, taking turns in the gun and controller.
Q: What's harder than finding these games?
A:
Finding a TV that still exists that will work with them.
Tons of them for free on Facebook marketplace and Craigslist.
Yeah, CRTs are a dime a dozen.
9:10 This might be the best animated cut scene I've ever seen on the NES, and I've never even heard of this game!
Hey, John, I had an idea: why don't you make a video about the best third-party NES controllers and peripherals? I think people usually mostly think only about official Nintendo products, but I heard there were some good ones from other companies, too.
I loved playing the shooting gallery as a kid, my states largest amusement park had one but I think they removed it from the park. I can't remember for sure, I haven't been there in 20+ years.
Hogan's Alley was based on an actual shooting range used for military training at Camp Perry, hence all the "cardboard cutout" imagery. It has since reopened at Quantico as a 10-acre simulated city used for FBI training.
Don't know why they switched to real dogs.
I brother and I got Trick Shooting second hand in the late 90s and always considered such a good zapper game compared to all we knew for the genre: Duck Hunt. Glad to see it get some love because it’s very good.
Also nice go see someone else who prefers clay shooting in Duck Hunt. I almost never play the Duck modes.
That sound is so amazing. Still have this set up in my game room.
How did the second game display insensitivity? What am I missing?
I know because you’re shooting cowboys too... if it were just Indians and called Indian Blaster I may see a point, haha!
Because people now are weak and feel they must apologize for everything.
To the Earth was actually the first game I got with the NES. My brother got Captain Skyhawk, and we were to share SMB1/Duck Hunt, which came with the system. Needless to say, we still stuck mostly to the C64 until we got Dragon Warrior(Quest) 1, Mega Man 3, 4, and 6, SMB3, and a few others I don't remember that well these days. We had Duck Tales too, but dad broke the cartridge in half. It eventually went that the NES and later Genesis were for platformers and other action titles, with few to no RPGs, while all our RPGs were on the C64 or our 386 DOS machine.
I still have never played a single Metroid or Castlevania game. I only played a Kirby game this year.
wow I mean, even Gyruss took you a few levels to get to you... er Uranus so I guess it has that going for it? :P also I looked it up and the '1P can control the duck' thing in duck hunt *is* in the manual!
I REALLY REALLY REALLY WISH Nintendo or whoever could release all zapper games that work in touch screen on the switch or iPad. Imagine Gumshoe on switch??? Cmon Riggs! Make it happen❤️ if it’s available already, lemme know!
Sadly it's the strobe affect from the old CRTs that allow light-guns to work. Flat screens filter this out to prevent potential epilepsy episodes.
John clearly used a mouse cursor for the games, so he played it as emulation on a computerscreen. Implementing a touch screen would be easy at this point because its not different from a controller/mouse. However i dont think Nintendo has much interest in releasing old games on their platform.
If you dont know about them yet, i advice you to read about Emulators. They run on almost every PC.
@@thomasherzog86, I have played Point Blank on the PS1 with a gamepad (to test it, hoping to get a CRT at some point in time...) - it ain't the same as aiming light-gun and I'd imagine it would be the same with a touchscreen or mouse cursor.
I'd love it.
There was an ap to play arcade Crossbow on the iPad. It was pretty fun.
Loved gum shoe
I need a CRT so I can play The Lone Ranger and Duck Hunt.
I need the lone ranger so i can play on my crt tv😄
@@robdekker3673 haha thats a hard one to find !
@@240Sil i know… :(
Gotcha stars the blond kid from Revenge of the Nerds. 🤣🤣
As always, non-scripted and zero research, all nostalgia.
Not many people know this, but he was also in a little-known movie called Top Gun and that show no one saw called ER.
Gilbert from Revenge of the Nerds.
@@jst25 Who did he play in Top Gun?
@@derekdash2179 Gilbert! There you go. How could I forget? It's the name of one of our local schools.
Hogan's Alley
I was looking for this EXACT video and turns out it's a John Riggs video. Yess!
You really should’ve added Chiller to this list, even if it is unlicensed, since it supported 2 simultaneous players, each with their own zapper. Also, Super Russian Roulette is great fun as a silly party game.
I was hoping someone would mention Chiller
And Russian Roulette is hilarious. My buddy had it a few years back
Like that game and glad he was in the movie pixels love that duck hunt dog that laughing dog is nestalgia in it's self
Thank you for your videos! This reminded me of To The Earth! I had completely forgotten about it, but I’m pretty sure I had it.
Just grabbed some Nyko Perfect Shots and been playing Duck Hunt on Wii U Virtual Console. Gonna have to pick up the other zapper games (that they have), Wild Gunman, Hogan's Alley and The Adventures of Bayou Billy. Wish they had all the games on your list. Very cool!
"I love shooting galleries, it's like a live-action video game". Huuuuh sure you didn't get that backwards bro? :D
I remember seeing Gumshoe in the store and was puzzled by it. Mainly because I thought the guy looked a bit silly.
Brought it home and didn't know it was a Zapper game and everyone tried to figure out how to play the game as we didn't think we had to check the instructions or anything yet (as it's usually me that look through manuals on our way home, but I didn't get to for this game).
Later found out it was a Zapper game and it was a really fun game.
I would wonder though. Has some mobile games got ideas from something like this? Because when I remembered Gumshoe again a few years ago, I realized Super Mario Run was really close to it. Mario constantly moving, you had to poke/shoot him to make him jump to get around things or get his coins/balloons and dodging obstacles.
I have a few zapper games I really like to play you know you got to love duck hunt or gumshoe. I've even tried to get past the third level of baby boomer. Though I don't think I've ever done that. Freedom Force of all of them that would be my all-time favorite light gun game for the NES not only just because it probably does have the best opening cutscene of maybe any game on the entire system or pretty close. Part of it is just the mechanics of how it plays and how close it almost seems to an arcade with how you pick up the power-ups and like how if you hit the wrong ones you'll make the game harder and if you ever notice the health power up is always the one that moves by really really quick. And how if you use up all your ammo I don't think you can get any more or you have to wait for the occasional ammo pickup. Very complex game but one of my favorite NES games overall. In fact I don't think I've ever gotten past stage 4
I had Wild Gunman and Duck Hunt as a kid. A few years ago I saw Freedom Force in my local vintage store. Never heard of it ‘til that point. I picked it up and glad I did. It’s great.
I didn’t think, other than Duck Hunt and Wild Gunman, there were other Zapper games.
Gotcha! makes me wish that that's how the panning interludes in Top Secret Episode worked. That would have been weirdly frantic to have to pick up the gun.
I still more fondly remember the Vs. Hogan's Alley and Duck Hunt arcade games where the stages appeared back-to-back rather than selecting them from the menu and playing just the one until boredom set in. Maybe though that's because I didn't get a Zapper until much later, well after the peak of these two games.
Well, you did that video on how to play all of that stuff on an LCD TV (this video draw me to your awesome channel)... so there’s options beside CRT👍👍
They do have some patches. They're not perfect but can work.
When I was a kid my Grandma would yell at us for walking in front of the Zapper. She would say "You're going to get nailed!". It still makes me laugh when I think about it. I was 5 or 6 at the time.
The Zapper has been available as a standalone accessory in stores, as well as packaged with Duck Hunt in some regions.
Hogan’s alley was my favorite nes game ever. There was a 711 across the street from my house in the 80s/90s and they had a Hogan’s alley arcade game.. I spent hours playing it, then my parents bought me the nes version. The nes version was way easier but I still played it for hours along with duck hunt
I always played Operation Wolf with the zapper. I would play Duck Hunt a whole lot too. I really did love the zapper.
Trick Shooting and Duck Hunt were the only ones we ever played as kids. We tried to play Gotcha once but it was pretty bad.
Wild Gunman will always be my favorite
never gets old
After all this time there is a game I've never seen before. To the earth. Who knew?
I can hear you had great fun making this video; great channel!
I rented Gotcha as a kid, and didn't know that the controller was needed. We just sat there and thought it was broke all weekend until it was almost time to take it back, and someone touched the controller and we saw the screen move 🤦♂️
I later bought the game, and it became my favorite zapper game.
Freedom Force imo was the best Zapper game on the NES!
Gumshoe was great too, it got pretty hard going for all those diamonds!
3:02 I hear John talking about insensitivity but don't really see it. It's a typical western. Cowboys, Indians, the desert. It should've had some Mexicans though.
Before watching, my favorite one is Gumshoe.
Will there be a Master System zapper video too?!😁
I only ever had a couple master system games that used the zapper, but I do have a master system and light gun. Maybe I'll look into it.
Got to be that chiller game just because it’s so insane
That’s a fantastic thumbnail, excellent job 👍
*GASP*
He did it! The NES ZAPPER RANKING!!!!
I dont suppose you would do an Aladdin Deck Enhancer ranking video??? I know AVGN Blew them all up, but still...
Now this is a great topic! I have a 27" CRT in my game room and love zapper games. So much better than wii games using a cursor. I picked up Shooting range the other day and it's so terrible. Was really cheap so I'm not mad I bought it, but it was a missed opportunity. wild gunman is my jam. But you gave me some more games to look for.
I think your kid may be on to something there. Got that Super Scope 6 form going and it looks like it worked pretty good. 👍
That shooting gallery looks sweet
Today I learn you could control the ducks in Duck Hunt... It's not getting the ability to shoot the dog (which I heard is in one version of Duck Hunt out there, some championship version), but it's still an interesting thing I wish I knew.
It's Vs. Duck Hunt that lets you shoot the dog; part of the Nintendo Vs. System multi-game arcade cabinet.
The arcade version of Duck Hunt you could shoot the dog
I ended up buying a bunch of the VC nes lightgun games for my Wii-U so I could keep playing them. I have a nice 36” CRT for all my old school lightgun game goodness but life rarely gives me a chance to play on it anymore.😥
I only had three of these games (Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley, and Gotcha) but I had a good time with them, personally I would rate Gotcha higher but that's just me. I had some fun with that game.
For NES Zapper, TV shots you
actually, kind of!
Classic Yakov. 😂
I've got a game on the NES called chiller that you can use the zapper or the controller on that's really fun.
I never knew there were so many games that used the gun. Back in the day all I knew about was duck hunt and Bayou Billy. Always wondered why they didn't make hundreds of games for the gun. I would think at some point in time, they'll make guns for first person shooters in VR, that is if they don't already and it should be a massive, massive hit and take over the gaming industry.
Awesome !
'Hogan's Alley' is the name of the mock town used as a tactical training facility by the FBI since 1987. The term is also sometimes used generically to refer to any shooting range devoted to tactical training. The original 'Hogan's Alley' was located at the Special Police School at Camp Perry, Ohio. It was closed down just prior to World War II, but reopened in 1956, at which time it was likely used by the FBI; this was probably the inspiration for the video game of the same name, and is why the player shoots cardboard cut-outs - because the game is meant to be an electronic approximation, to some degree, of the training facility from which it takes its name.
TIL! I never knew
I need to get my hands on an old CRT TV to get the right experience, and to be able to play those zapper games. I didn't know about all these games. I've got Duck Hunt and Trick Shooting.
Aww, you didn't mention that you can shoot the dog in Barker Bill's Trick Shooting. You can finally get revenge on the dog for laughing at you in Duck Hunt!
Amazing to think the major console that came before the NES was the Atari 2600 - people must have thought it was some kind of sourcery being able to shoot a gun at your TV to interact with it and graphics and game play are just WAY beyond anything the 2600 could have produced.
Gumshoe is the earliest endless runner game I can think of.
My two favourite zapper games (in no particular order) are Hogan’s Ally and Wild Gunman
John! We need a guy like you to make a “Zapper multi-Cart”! Has such a home brew multi cart exist or possible?
Duck hunt is number one on my list. 😀👍🎮
I had a pair of Gotcha guns. They did not use paintballs (at least the ones I had), so that would be why you wouldn't call it paintball. They had a rotating magazine/cartridge with 6 shots or so. It had paint jammed and sealed into recesses in that cartridge. It just spat paint out when you shot it. So the range was awful compared to a ball that shoots out and breaks on impact. I think later they just started making paintball guns but were already being out-competed in that market. So yeah, Gotcha... not quite paintball.
5:51 you synced you laugh with the dog!
Love the shooting gallery field trip! Also why does the dude with the sombrero in Wild Gunman have a smiley ghost crotch when he gets shot? 🤣
Mission one Uranus ha ha to funny 😂
Thank you for ranking them instead of grading them!
I had quite a few master system light gun games and loads on ps1 only 2 I think for NES though. Always looked at the SNES bazooka as an amazing accessory but still never used one.