Duck Hunt

Duck Hunt is a Japanese original light gun shooter console game. Duck Hunt (ダックハント Dakku Hanto in Japanese) was developed and published by Nintendo and released in 1984. This game is playable in both single and multi-player with up to 2 players only. The story behind this game is simple. There is a gentleman whom is going duck hunting with his dog. After the gentleman successfully shot the duck, his dog will get the duck. This game has two options which are to shoot the duck, or to a clay pigeons.

Interactive
This game has an additional equipment which is NES Zapper. NES Zapper is used to shoot ducks that appear on the screen. The player can freely move the gun around the screen to point and shoot the ducks. In all modes, the player only has three attempts to shoot the on-screen targets when they appear. This game is played from a first-person perspective.

Setting
The settings are different from one mode to another. However, the similarity between the settings are large yard with trees, emulating the real environment of duck hunts and clay pigeons fight.

The setting of game mode which focuses on shooting ducks

The setting of game mode which focuses on shooting clay pigeons (white circle in pictures)

Concept
The concept of the game is pretty similar to the duck hunt in real life, as the player is required to shoot the moving targets (ducks) on the screen in the mid-flight before they disappear. There are a total of ten targets to shoot in each round. In single mode there will be one target and two target in two-player mode will appear on the screen. The player only has three attempts to shoot the targets before they disappear. There is also a minimum number of target shot in order to advance to the next round. Sadly, a failure will end up to the game over. The higher the rounds, the difficult the game will be. The targets will move faster, and the minimum number of target successfully shot will also increase.

The other mode which is to break the clay pigeon has a similar concept with the one to shoot a duck.

Goal
The goal of this game is to hit/shoot a moving target with three attempts shoot before the target disappear.

Challenge

The higher the rounds, the more difficult the game

This game is comparatively hard to play. Personally, the first round is already somewhat difficult to shoot the duck. Perhaps, the reason is because I use mouse over NEZ Zapper to shoot the target. I believe, using NES Zapper itself will be much easier to point, focus, and shoot the target. The challenge of this game also the only-three-attempts challenge. A player only has three attempts to shoot the moving target before it disappears. The minimum number of target to be shot also increases as the player advances to higher round/level.

I think that the game emulates the duck hunt in real life successfully. Duck hunt in real life is somewhat a challenge on some people, why should the developer make this game easier?

All images are derived from: Duck Hunt - Wikipedia
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