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How the Video Game Was Born
This year, the video game turns 40. Let’s call it an occasion to spend a few more hours in front of our TVs, the place where it all started.
Why Lightguns Are Restricted By Most Hunting Permits
Electronic Games 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive As Hell
After the first Pong cabinet was placed in Andy Capp’s Cavern in 1972, video games exploded, reaching their full stride by the late ’70s. Here are some of the notable games/systems you played (or would have played) back then:
Duck Huntin’ Shirt Protects Your Butt From Embarrassing, Painless Accident
Look, I’m for the right to bear arms as much as the next guy—I just don’t like ducks.
ST-2 Indoor Shooting Simulator Is Duck Hunt on Steroids
For the ultimate game of Duck Hunt, Marksman Training Systems is offering the ST-2 shooting simulator–the first on the market for shotgun and rifle shooting. Co-developed by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, the simulator is so accurate that its used by Russian and Slovakian national clay shooting teams as a way to practice before the Olympics.
DIY Duck Hunt Lamp Still Has That Blasted Laughing Dog
When I look at the classic Nintendo Zapper I think of my younger days as a screaming, hot-headed 8-bit gamer, but not Fluffypants. No siree. The enterprising DIY lamp artist looked at the orange and grey plastic and saw a lamp. A few hours and one fabricated cardboard NES cartridge stand later, that laughing dog was back in action, ready to haunt my dreams once again. If this model played the level intro music I’d be tempted to break out the glue gun, but for now I’ll just marvel at its brilliance from afar. [Craftster via Boing Boing Gadgets]
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