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I think I was in my 30s before I found out that with NES Duck Hunt, if you plugged in a controller, player 2 could control the duck.
by smeej 2y ago
I think I was in my 30s before I found out that with NES Duck Hunt, if you plugged in a controller, player 2 could control the duck.
- amarant 2y agoHe can WHAT? Omg I need to go buy a Nintendo! And a CRT!
- thsksbd 2y agoDont bother, it sucks. The duck is still trying to fly a certain way and you're really just tugging at him. If you want to try it out just run Duck Hunt on an emulator. You dont need a crt to just play with the duck
- loloquwowndueo 2y agoParent just needed an excuse to buy a vintage tv and NES :)
- thsksbd 2y agoRookie mistake. My bad.
- foxandmouse 2y agoum... well, I just found this out at 32... granted I don't have access to my nes to confirm this.
- ownagefool 2y agoCan confirm. 39 now, but as a child I liked to troll my bro with player 2.
- moron4hire 2y agoI'm 42. Was doing this at age 8. Cuz what else was I going to do during times I wasn't allowed to play but read all the manuals?
- vundercind 2y agoI think it was late 20s here, but I’d had the damn thing since I was like 6, including Duck Hunt. Mind was blown. The highest purpose of this feature is to surreptitiously control the ducks while someone who doesn’t know about the feature is playing. You’ll have them cursing in no time :-)
- Dwedit 2y agoThe zapper goes into port 2, and a standard controller goes into port 1. The game manual says that you can control the duck with the control pad (which is in player 1's controller port), which would usually be controlled by a second player. This isn't a secret to anyone who bothered to read the manual. https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_NES/manual/Formated/Duck_Hunt_-_1985_-_Nintendo.pdf https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_NES/manu...
- JohannesH 2y agoA bit harsh. I didn't know this. I mean, it could be that some people were not able to read english. I was too young to read english and it wasnt my native tongue. Also, my dad used to let us rent a NES and some games at our local video rental shop, so it just didn't come with a manual to read in the first place.
- bazil376 2y agoWho’d have figured a bunch of people who didn’t read the docs would go on to become software developers
- treflop 2y agoIt’s not like we need to write docs /s
- wkjagt 2y agoI don't remember reading any of the manuals of any of the games I played as a kid in the 80s. I don't even remember seeing them. I just remember putting the game in the console as quickly as possible and figuring it out.
- ilinx 2y agoI remember getting charged $3 every time I returned a rented game without the manual.
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- Xeyz0r 2y agoYou learn something new everyday.
- kvakerok 2y agoMy bro was so good at duck driving he made me rage quit duck hunt.