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Offline mouse_clicker

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How do lightguns work?
« on: July 08, 2003, 05:57:18 PM »
Can anyone tell me? I've always wondered the game knows where you're shooting on the TV without it having any sensors or anything. It doesn't make sense- it's as if it works on magic. How DO they really work?
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RE: How do lightguns work?
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2003, 07:44:07 PM »
i'd explain it, but it's easier to point you to this page > http://www.howstuffworks.com/question273.htm

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How do lightguns work?
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2003, 10:35:42 PM »
Heh.  Nintendo owns a patent on that design.    I wonder if the other games that use such devices have to pay royalties to Nintendo?
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How do lightguns work?
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2003, 10:45:22 PM »
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Originally posted by: Grey Ninja
Heh.  Nintendo owns a patent on that design.    I wonder if the other games that use such devices have to pay royalties to Nintendo?


I didn't know that, is this why we don't see light gun games that often?
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RE: How do lightguns work?
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2003, 01:01:37 AM »
The guy who started atari made the first lightgun for a game, that I know of.  So I think they can have different designs and be fine.  I seem to remember reading about Yamauchi having them in a business in Japan where they had a shooting range sort of deal with light guns.
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RE: How do lightguns work?
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2003, 02:17:08 AM »
Nintendo had brought up a chain of failed bowling centers and converted them to eletronic clay pigeon shooting ranges.
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How do lightguns work?
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2003, 04:28:45 AM »
Thanks aio tsuki- that's a complicated device little device. You wouldn't think a simple ol' NES could run something like that.
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RE: How do lightguns work?
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2003, 02:44:50 PM »
i was just wondering about this the other day so thats how it works... cool!
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RE: How do lightguns work?
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2003, 12:33:13 AM »
it would have been cool if they had those little Flash animations.....those are cool.
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How do lightguns work?
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2003, 03:52:54 AM »
I think it depends depending on the light gun. The NES Zapper send signals of some kind to the screen, which either recorded the shot as a hit or a miss. The signal to the NES
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