Anyone else, as kids, use the Zapper by putting the gun right on the TV, Point Blank style? Ranking Black Box NES Games - ua-cam.com/video/_Eu0H3I0cKA/v-deo.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't understand how the one game was insensitive? They had American Indians in a wild west themed shooting range. They also had cowboys in it. If it was a 16th century Japanese themed scene would it have been insensitive to have samurai's as well as Mongols in it? I'd hope not because it's history. It didn't look to me at all outside of them having American Indians in it that it was any different than the cowboys. They both had targets on the edge of them and you even showed you lost points if you shot them and not the target. It's like in the name of sensitivity we want to wipe all imagery from everything from certain ethnicity or culture. Like the land o lakes logo that showed an Indian on it well now there isn't one. So one less acknowledgement to their culture out of the public eye. Really great.
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.
Anyone else as a kid have fantasies about blowing the effing dog's head off in duck Hunt for laughing at you? Well if you ever wanted a game where you can officially get your revenge on the annoying dog there was an arcade version of duck hunt released that had bonus stages where you could shoot the dog and it was an official game called vs. duck hunt. But if you did blow the dog away you would automatically get an game over. But I can personally tell you that after years of torment trauma that dog caused my life there was no greater Joy than blowing his freaking face off. Teach you to laugh at me.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 😁
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...
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. 😋
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.
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 UA-cam videos again. and its funny how our styles are SO close.
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.
Gotcha reminds me of a movie from the 80's called T.A.G. - The Assassination Game. They went around with plastic dart guns, and all was fine until someone went nuts. Typical 80's!!
They should’ve made a dragons lair type game where it plays a cutscene and then during the cutscenes you would have to shoot specific things or bonus things
It's crazy how we just ran around with more assumptions than knowledge back in the day thanks to the lack of the internet. LOL I remember Gotcha! The Sport! from the horrible Entertech paintball guns. I bought an Enforcer at my local toy store and was the laughing stock of my friends because it was so bad. When I saw the NES game, I got that hoping it was more fun than the real gun (it was). But I also assumed it was a game based on the toy. It seems obvious both were a parlay of paintball's growing popularity by whomever owned the game from the movie. I wish I knew the backstory of how that all went down. I actually still own an unused Enforcer double gun set. Found it at a toy show that a vendor was more than happy to part with for $25 LOL
Too the earth was ok but I had to cheat and go close to the screen to pass it. Hogans Alley was my favourite, lots of content and underrated by most people.
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!
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.
Even with a CRT and with the volume low/via headphones, you can't use the Nintendo Zapper at 3am. *KER-CHANG! ... KER-CHA!-KER-CHANG!* 😝 I do miss Duck Hunt - stupid TFTs. 😜
Okay, so I hqve to say that with Wild Gunman, many friends would just hold the gun up and pull the trigger, but really it is critical to have the gun down at your side, hence "Draw!" The timing is too easy if you don't. Ideally there shoul dhave been a legit hoslter. I love Wild Gunman and Hogan's Alley the most! Barker Bill's Trick Shooting is also good with very tight hit detection. To The Earth should have been good, but hit detection is attrocious! Interestingly, I have this HD (1080i) widescreen CRT TV that does work witht eh Zapper but did not work with the Super Scope. I can still play my Zapper games on it.
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.
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!
*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...
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.
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.
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 hope to play the Duck Hunt VS. on my Famicom Toploader with the Everdrive N8 Pro after I move next month. I will need my CRT though. I hope she doesn't mind my game stuff. I need to get rid of some things but I love my toys.☹
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 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.
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 🤟✨✨✨
"Gotcha" was a line of paintball guns marketed by LJN toys before they got into the video game business so it was clearly a toy-tie in (along with the Gotcha!) movie. The thing is the guns were really cheaply made and prone misfiring so the toy-line was a major money loser for them.
I also enjoy Super Scope sure it was a massive battery eater like the Game Gear I thought the games were awesome Battle Clash and it's sequel Metal Combat, Yoshi Safari and Terminator Arcade though it was optional.
But I do agree with Wild Gunman and Hogan’s Ally those 2 games are pretty good I would go for Wild Gunman and Hogan’s Ally more than Gotcha The Sport and Gumshoe as far as I’m concerned Gotcha The Sport and Gumshoe should have been the 2 lowest on the list and by the look of it I think I would play the heck out of To The Earth that game looked quite appealing when I still had an old style tv that worked with the zapper games I sold my copies of Gotcha The Sport and Gumshoe because I actually thought they were that bad actually for me the top 3 zapper games would be in this order Hogan’s Ally, Wild Gunman and then Duck Hunt in that order
The only game I ever knew that used the Zapper was Duck Hunt. The only thing that could have Duck Hunt better would be if you could shoot the laughing dog (and don't look at me like that. It's a cartoon dog).
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.
What sucks is the band Pantera taught me in the 90s it was cool to smash crt tvs with a sledgehammer lol now I'm like well sh** I miss my duck hunt lol gotta love the zapper tho def futuristic for it's time
Anyone else, as kids, use the Zapper by putting the gun right on the TV, Point Blank style?
Ranking Black Box NES Games - ua-cam.com/video/_Eu0H3I0cKA/v-deo.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.
Sounds like a stapler
That’s what I thought too lol
I wish my stapler sounded like the zapper
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.
Whoah, might need to buy freedom force! Thank you for this video 😇
Lone Ranger has my favorite use of the Zapper. Yeah, you could play without it, but why would you?
Do this with the power pad please!
There's a third party zapper that works with new TVs
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.
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
John always cheers me up when I'm down
Same
Same here
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
I've always loved Hogan's Alley; my favorite part is how the palette changes for the scenery every few rounds in Mode B.
Previous generation : video game is like virtual shooting gallery
John Riggs : shooting gallery is like live action video 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.
Ah yes
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.
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?
Japan gives 0 f’s about shallow American perceptions of “insensitivity”
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.
Gotta love gumshoe. That was one of my favorite zapper games.
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… :(
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
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?
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.
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
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.
That bear looks like it's on loan from Showbiz Pizza.
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. 👍
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.
I don't understand how the one game was insensitive? They had American Indians in a wild west themed shooting range. They also had cowboys in it. If it was a 16th century Japanese themed scene would it have been insensitive to have samurai's as well as Mongols in it? I'd hope not because it's history. It didn't look to me at all outside of them having American Indians in it that it was any different than the cowboys. They both had targets on the edge of them and you even showed you lost points if you shot them and not the target.
It's like in the name of sensitivity we want to wipe all imagery from everything from certain ethnicity or culture. Like the land o lakes logo that showed an Indian on it well now there isn't one. So one less acknowledgement to their culture out of the public eye. Really great.
Dude he lives in like washington or oregon butt stuffer central not sure what else you expect
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 :)
I don't get what you're menaning with "insensitivity" about Shooting range? It's indians and cowboys in a western environment.
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.
Anyone else as a kid have fantasies about blowing the effing dog's head off in duck Hunt for laughing at you?
Well if you ever wanted a game where you can officially get your revenge on the annoying dog there was an arcade version of duck hunt released that had bonus stages where you could shoot the dog and it was an official game called vs. duck hunt. But if you did blow the dog away you would automatically get an game over. But I can personally tell you that after years of torment trauma that dog caused my life there was no greater Joy than blowing his freaking face off. Teach you to laugh at me.
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?
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
I have an FS2000 bullpup rifle, the trigger feels and sounds almost exactly like the Zapper light gun. More recoil though.
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
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.
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!
Think ive been to the shooting gallery and I have operation wolf
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 😁
"I love shooting galleries, it's like a live-action video game". Huuuuh sure you didn't get that backwards bro? :D
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...
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.
😋
Heck yes, the NES Zapper is my jam. Great stuff!
Wild Gunman will always be my favorite
never gets old
Thanks for the content Mister Riggs.
Anytime, playa'
Worst: To the Earth
Best: Duck Hunt
Mission one Uranus ha ha to funny 😂
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.
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 UA-cam videos again. and its funny how our styles are SO close.
Gumshoe is the earliest endless runner game I can think of.
Duck hunt is number one on my list. 😀👍🎮
Miss that zapper sound
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
I had Gotcha, and duck hunt.
For NES Zapper, TV shots you
actually, kind of!
Classic Yakov. 😂
Gotcha reminds me of a movie from the 80's called T.A.G. - The Assassination Game. They went around with plastic dart guns, and all was fine until someone went nuts. Typical 80's!!
oh, we had that, Lazer Tag, paint ball, super-soakers... and a bunch of neighborhood moms telling you not to aim for the face.
@@JohnRiggs You'll shoot your eye out! I was born in 1972, and my mom was a Don't point it at your eye kind of parent.
Who cares quit being a baby. "Insensitivity"...
Being PC is what's wrong with people nowadays.
Quit being a baby? You mean quit having a soul?
@@prestonandtom9337 lmao. Cry.
Gumshoe was the best one!
I have the orange zapper
Where would MechaNized Attack rank on this list?
They should’ve made a dragons lair type game where it plays a cutscene and then during the cutscenes you would have to shoot specific things or bonus things
Awesome !
It's crazy how we just ran around with more assumptions than knowledge back in the day thanks to the lack of the internet. LOL
I remember Gotcha! The Sport! from the horrible Entertech paintball guns. I bought an Enforcer at my local toy store and was the laughing stock of my friends because it was so bad. When I saw the NES game, I got that hoping it was more fun than the real gun (it was). But I also assumed it was a game based on the toy. It seems obvious both were a parlay of paintball's growing popularity by whomever owned the game from the movie. I wish I knew the backstory of how that all went down. I actually still own an unused Enforcer double gun set. Found it at a toy show that a vendor was more than happy to part with for $25 LOL
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.
@7:00 "I don't know about the idea of shooting people to make them jump" - To be fair, shooting someone probably would make them jump (at least once).
Too the earth was ok but I had to cheat and go close to the screen to pass it. Hogans Alley was my favourite, lots of content and underrated by most people.
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!
Loved gum shoe
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.
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.
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!
Thumbs down for not mentioning Back to the Future Part 2 for Wild Gunman. Jk. 🤣
Even with a CRT and with the volume low/via headphones, you can't use the Nintendo Zapper at 3am.
*KER-CHANG! ... KER-CHA!-KER-CHANG!* 😝
I do miss Duck Hunt - stupid TFTs. 😜
Okay, so I hqve to say that with Wild Gunman, many friends would just hold the gun up and pull the trigger, but really it is critical to have the gun down at your side, hence "Draw!" The timing is too easy if you don't. Ideally there shoul dhave been a legit hoslter.
I love Wild Gunman and Hogan's Alley the most! Barker Bill's Trick Shooting is also good with very tight hit detection. To The Earth should have been good, but hit detection is attrocious! Interestingly, I have this HD (1080i) widescreen CRT TV that does work witht eh Zapper but did not work with the Super Scope. I can still play my Zapper games on it.
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.
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!
*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...
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.
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.
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 hope to play the Duck Hunt VS. on my Famicom Toploader with the Everdrive N8 Pro after I move next month. I will need my CRT though. I hope she doesn't mind my game stuff. I need to get rid of some things but I love my toys.☹
John ...I spit my coffee out onto my car dashboard when I saw your kid holding the rifle like an RPG
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 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.
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 🤟✨✨✨
Jesus straighten your pictures
Just did. They'll be straight(er) in the next video
"Gotcha" was a line of paintball guns marketed by LJN toys before they got into the video game business so it was clearly a toy-tie in (along with the Gotcha!) movie. The thing is the guns were really cheaply made and prone misfiring so the toy-line was a major money loser for them.
I also enjoy Super Scope sure it was a massive battery eater like the Game Gear I thought the games were awesome Battle Clash and it's sequel Metal Combat, Yoshi Safari and Terminator Arcade though it was optional.
Use a controller for operation wolf!?!? SACRILEGE! OW was one of the best games for the NES.
But I do agree with Wild Gunman and Hogan’s Ally those 2 games are pretty good I would go for Wild Gunman and Hogan’s Ally more than Gotcha The Sport and Gumshoe as far as I’m concerned Gotcha The Sport and Gumshoe should have been the 2 lowest on the list and by the look of it I think I would play the heck out of To The Earth that game looked quite appealing when I still had an old style tv that worked with the zapper games I sold my copies of Gotcha The Sport and Gumshoe because I actually thought they were that bad actually for me the top 3 zapper games would be in this order Hogan’s Ally, Wild Gunman and then Duck Hunt in that order
The only game I ever knew that used the Zapper was Duck Hunt. The only thing that could have Duck Hunt better would be if you could shoot the laughing dog (and don't look at me like that. It's a cartoon dog).
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.
You didn't rank Gotcha. . . Oh wait, I just realized you are going worst to best. It being an LGN game threw me I guess, LOL.
After all this time there is a game I've never seen before. To the earth. Who knew?
What sucks is the band Pantera taught me in the 90s it was cool to smash crt tvs with a sledgehammer lol now I'm like well sh** I miss my duck hunt lol gotta love the zapper tho def futuristic for it's time
Why did the gun loose its colour in the US? Shoot be orange!