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there are plenty of different kinds of video games out there but throughout the

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history of gaming a huge part of the

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appeal of games has been the fact that many of them allow us to pretend to

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shoot at things and although we do most of our shooting these days with a

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Gamepad or a mouse and keyboard a lot of you might remember the days when we had

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actual replica guns to fire at the screen I'm talking of course about light

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guns the things that you could use with your NES to play duck hunt and just

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shoot that stupid dog over and over again because he keeps laughing at you

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but even though light guns are a rarity these days they were a little ahead of

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their time back in the mid 1980s considering that the concept of

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controlling your video games by pointing something at the screen didn't really

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take off again until Nintendo introduced the Wii in

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2006 however the light gun actually has

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a history that goes way back before home

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video games in fact all the way back to

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1936 with a Contraption called the seaberg Ray o light that appeared as a

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wooden cabinet containing you guessed it a mechanical duck with a tube attached

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to it that could sense light a rifle

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that came with it fired a light beam that would make the duck fall mechanical

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light gun games like these eventually gave way to arcade games that

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used a light gun that worked with CRT monitors which found their way into the

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home as accessories for consoles like the NES and Sega Master System so when

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you pointed your NES zapper or Sega

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light phaser at the screen and fired at a criminal a water foul or whatever the

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case may be the screen would very briefly go blank then redraw only the

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targets as white blocks the light gun

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could then detect whether it was pointed at one of the white areas and then if so

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the game registered a hit later light guns like the Nintendo Super scope which

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looked like something you might use to invade a small country defended by a

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clone army of Marcus Phoenix allowed for greater Precision by detecting the

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change in brightness at a certain point on the screen once it was refreshed to

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figure out where the gun was pointed but hold on a second the way that light guns

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work sounds pretty straightforward so why have they gone out of style ah well

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sometimes as technology moves forward stuff gets relegated to history's

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Dustbin simply because it was designed to work with something else older which

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is exactly what happened to our beloved light guns you see old CRT screens had

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much lower display leg than modern LCDs

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when LCDs started to dominate the market they offered Crisp Images and low power

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consumption not to mention being lighter and thinner but they've never been as

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quick as tube monitors due to fundamental differences in how they work

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light guns don't work with modern screens because their display leg is

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just too high so they can't draw those white targets or change the brightness

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quickly enough for the gun to register it and even though the light gun is

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considered a retro piece of tech the quick respon that you could get from a

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light gun paired with a CRT actually hasn't been matched by modern solutions

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like the Wii remote which tend to have a much higher very perceptible latency

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when you're pointing them around but of course if you can't still play games

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with them you can at least use your light guns as accessories for your next

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Halloween costume just don't try to walk through airport security with one

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