Duck Hunt facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Duck Hunt |
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| Developer(s) | Nintendo R&D1 |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Platform(s) | Famicom, NES, Arcade |
| Release date(s) | JP April 29, 1984 NA October 18, 1985 EU August 15, 1987 |
| Genre(s) | Arcade/Light Gun Shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player, 2-Player |
Duck Hunt is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game system. The game was made by Nintendo, and was released in 1984 in Japan. In Duck Hunt, players use the NES Zapper to shoot ducks on screen to get points. The ducks come onto the screen one or two at a time, and the player is given three shots to shoot them down.
Duck Hunt was one of the two first Pack-in games for the NES. The game did not get many reviews, but many gamers enjoyed playing it, and many people said it was a good game. Before Nintendo made the game, it also made a Duck Hunt game about the Laser Clay Shooting System released in 1976.
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Gameplay
In Duck Hunt, players use the Nintendo Zapper Light Gun that must be plugged into their NES consoles. Then they try to shoot down ducks or clay pigeons. Duck Hunt was also released as an arcade game in 1984, and was also in the PlayChoice-10 arcade console.
The game has three modes: one-duck mode, with only one duck on the screen; two-duck mode, with two on the screen; and a third mode called "clay pigeon shooting". The clay pigeons are much smaller than the ducks and are harder to hit. Players need faster reaction time when playing this mode than when shooting ducks. In Vs. Duck Hunt, Clay Shooting mode is the second mode after two-duck mode, because the arcade Duck Hunt games never had a one-duck mode.
During the game, there is a dog that laughs at the player if no duck is hit. If the player hits a duck, the dog will congratulate them. A popular urban legend is that players have found a way to shoot the dog. This cannot happen in Duck Hunt, but it can happen in a bonus round of the arcade game Vs. Duck Hunt.
Duck Hunt does not have a way for more than one person to shoot ducks, but a second player may plug in a NES controller in the other controller port and control the duck that appears. This only can happen in one-duck mode, and can not be done with the clay pigeons.
Development
Nobody knows much about the development of Duck Hunt, but Nintendo Research & Development 1 made the game. They also created the Light Gun used in Duck Hunt. Work on the game was led by Takehiro Izushi, and was produced by Gunpei Yokoi.
Packaging and music
Packaging
Duck Hunt has been placed in several cartridges with more than one game. In the Action Set cartridge of the NES in the 1980s, Duck Hunt came with Super Mario Bros.. If a player bought the NES system with the Power Pad, then Duck Hunt came on a 3-in-1 cartridge that also had World Class Track Meet and Super Mario Bros.
Audio
The music was composed, or written, by Koji Kondo and Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka. Both men made music for other Nintendo games at the time, such as Metroid. Some people have called the sound effects, "pretty much what you'd expect for a game from the early 1980s - that is, awful by today's standards...", but the game's music was played on the Video Games Live concert tour.
Related pages
- List of Famicom games
- List of NES games
Images for kids
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The NES Zapper and a CRT TV are required for playing Duck Hunt.
See also
In Spanish: Duck Hunt para niños
