I suspect you can understand everything about a person simply by watching how they play Duck Hunt on the NES.

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• Skyline969@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For people who don’t get it: Duck Hunt was the most popular game that used the NES zapper. The way it worked was when the trigger was pulled, the screen went black for a split second except for a square of white. The zapper read the screen to see if it was aiming at the square and that determined if you hit your target. It only worked on CRT TV screens.

  Honest people played as intended - standing at a distance, using the zapper like you would a gun.

  Dishonest people would hold the zapper right up to the TV.

  Chaotic people would just point the zapper at something producing white light (like a lamp) and fire away, technically never missing.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I never actually understood how the zapper worked, thanks for the little summary.

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    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That was a little simplified, but mostly correct.

      youtu.be/V6XnSvB34y8

      The pointing at a light source doesn’t work in every situation, and a lot of games had multiple targets.

      You can see how it works in this 6 minute SlowMoGuys video.

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wanna try the chaos option.

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And people with good aim and a sense of humor always left their last shot for the dog.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’d suggest getting too excited about shooting the dog is a different kind of personality test. I’m pretty much convinced the whole game is designed to root out the sick among us.

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• Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pls elaborate, so people born after 1995 still understand 😆🫶🏻

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve rolled over the score counter in Duck Hunt just to see what hapoens. The answer is nothing interesting, for anyone wondering. No glitches, no crash. It just rolls over to zero.

  Yes, I did it the intended way, standing back from the TV. The skeet shooting mode reaches a pretty early difficulty plateau and if you can handle, say, round 10 you can handle infinite play.

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• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  sitting on the couch with the second controller moving the duck around while my brother was trying to play

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• TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What kind of things have you learned about people that way? :3

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• cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It only gets you halfway. To truly understand someone you need to also see them play DuckDodge (“Duck Hunt, but you are the duck”).

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• dragnucs@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How do you do it?

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Challenge myself. Stand back to test my accuracy.

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    • dragnucs@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean, the learn snout people part.

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• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Now I’m really curious to find out how Kevduit, GreyStillPlays and The Spiffing Brit would play it.

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