Mitsukara
01-24-2005, 11:42 PM
Most of you have probably heard of, if are not personally famliar with, the NES Zapper (be it gray or orange). Now, from everything I can tell, there seems to be a whopping two games that use this once-expensive pice of paraphenilia; Duck Hunt (often printed on the same cart with Super Mario Bros.; later packaged with SMB and World Class Track Meet) and some sort of game called Alleyway Shootout or something, where you try to shoot mobsters and not white ladies or something (kind of like GTA in reverse). If anyone has more information on this game, I would love to hear about it...
Anyway, I really have to wonder, are these definately, really completely the only two zapper games?? It seems like such a waste to create and sell them so you can play two games. Were there more in Japan that never made it to the US, perhaps?
Then there's my favorite, the SNES Super Scope. This gray plastic bazooka is infamous for some reason I don't understand, because frankly I think it's neato burrito and went out and bought one (two, technically, but there's only one reciever... old lady auctioneers) on eBay. I also found many copies of Super Scope 6, one in particularly good condition, and I got a good-condition copy of Yoshi's Safari- probably the most popular Super Scope game made, from the sounds of things. There's nothing quite like the feeling of watching Yoshi's neck bounce up and down way in front of you while you sit on his shell (which usually feels oddly like the floor or furniture) and blast away at various Mushroom Kingdom bad dudes with your bazooka turbo-machine gun as you travel through an amazing mode-7 enhanced world full of realism and giant pixels seen from an angle.
In fact, I'm so fond of my super scope that I'm desperate enough to play and (sort of) enjoy (parts of) Super Scope 6. Blastris Type B and Mole Patrol aren't half bad, nor is that thing where the alien spaceships approach the camera and move off the sides of the screen and stuff and com back magically enlarged. Then there's that great plain-ship one where you fly around in an amazing Mode 7 sky and get blown up. And there's Blastris Type A, here you act smart, pretend you have some idea of how the game works, and say "I almost had it!!!" when the game suddenly stops and says "game over" for some reason. And then there's that missile one that's as fun and entertaining as constipation without any bathroom books.
So, I'm looking for some new games to get for my awesome Peripheral- preferably the less they actually depend on the scope's specific aiming, the better, because the old ladies apparently lost both of the scopes, so I have more of a super scopeless. For Yoshi's Safari this works great, calibrate it the right way and you can just hold it in font of you like an AK-47 or something.
Anyway, I'm looking to find a complete list of these games and looking for reccomendations on them- I'd like to actually have more than 2- oh excuse me, 7!!!!11 super scope games to play with my super scope. I've heard of Battleclash and some Terminator 2 game that can use it in some odd way (but desn't revolve around the super scope).
Now, as far as I know, the super scope was the last light gun nintendo has made thus far. Is this correct, or were there any N64 light guns/new Gamecube light guns/ plans floating around? What about non-Nintendo systems- I undersand the Genisis had a pretty interesting thingy.
Now, what they need to make is a Gameboy light gun. Imagine the possiblities. Instead of the "Zapper" or "Super Scope", it could be the "Spy Shooter" or something, and be designed to look like a pen only gray with a big orange tip and a big purple button that says FIRE on it in italics. Imagine Duck Hunt GBC (on the SMBDX pack!), Yoshi's Safari Advance. The difficulty of aiming is far more difficult because it wouldn't pick up the signal sometimes, giving it real challenge!!!!
Anyway, I really have to wonder, are these definately, really completely the only two zapper games?? It seems like such a waste to create and sell them so you can play two games. Were there more in Japan that never made it to the US, perhaps?
Then there's my favorite, the SNES Super Scope. This gray plastic bazooka is infamous for some reason I don't understand, because frankly I think it's neato burrito and went out and bought one (two, technically, but there's only one reciever... old lady auctioneers) on eBay. I also found many copies of Super Scope 6, one in particularly good condition, and I got a good-condition copy of Yoshi's Safari- probably the most popular Super Scope game made, from the sounds of things. There's nothing quite like the feeling of watching Yoshi's neck bounce up and down way in front of you while you sit on his shell (which usually feels oddly like the floor or furniture) and blast away at various Mushroom Kingdom bad dudes with your bazooka turbo-machine gun as you travel through an amazing mode-7 enhanced world full of realism and giant pixels seen from an angle.
In fact, I'm so fond of my super scope that I'm desperate enough to play and (sort of) enjoy (parts of) Super Scope 6. Blastris Type B and Mole Patrol aren't half bad, nor is that thing where the alien spaceships approach the camera and move off the sides of the screen and stuff and com back magically enlarged. Then there's that great plain-ship one where you fly around in an amazing Mode 7 sky and get blown up. And there's Blastris Type A, here you act smart, pretend you have some idea of how the game works, and say "I almost had it!!!" when the game suddenly stops and says "game over" for some reason. And then there's that missile one that's as fun and entertaining as constipation without any bathroom books.
So, I'm looking for some new games to get for my awesome Peripheral- preferably the less they actually depend on the scope's specific aiming, the better, because the old ladies apparently lost both of the scopes, so I have more of a super scopeless. For Yoshi's Safari this works great, calibrate it the right way and you can just hold it in font of you like an AK-47 or something.
Anyway, I'm looking to find a complete list of these games and looking for reccomendations on them- I'd like to actually have more than 2- oh excuse me, 7!!!!11 super scope games to play with my super scope. I've heard of Battleclash and some Terminator 2 game that can use it in some odd way (but desn't revolve around the super scope).
Now, as far as I know, the super scope was the last light gun nintendo has made thus far. Is this correct, or were there any N64 light guns/new Gamecube light guns/ plans floating around? What about non-Nintendo systems- I undersand the Genisis had a pretty interesting thingy.
Now, what they need to make is a Gameboy light gun. Imagine the possiblities. Instead of the "Zapper" or "Super Scope", it could be the "Spy Shooter" or something, and be designed to look like a pen only gray with a big orange tip and a big purple button that says FIRE on it in italics. Imagine Duck Hunt GBC (on the SMBDX pack!), Yoshi's Safari Advance. The difficulty of aiming is far more difficult because it wouldn't pick up the signal sometimes, giving it real challenge!!!!