Gaming Forums => General Gaming => Topic started by: mouse_clicker on July 08, 2003, 05:57:18 PM
Title: How do lightguns work?
Post by: mouse_clicker 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?
Title: RE: How do lightguns work?
Post by: aoi tsuki on July 08, 2003, 07:44:07 PM
Title: How do lightguns work?
Post by: Grey Ninja 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?
Title: How do lightguns work?
Post by: Big_Pimp on July 08, 2003, 10:45:22 PM
Quote 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?
Title: RE: How do lightguns work?
Post by: Uglydot 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.
Title: RE: How do lightguns work?
Post by: oohhboy 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.
Title: How do lightguns work?
Post by: mouse_clicker 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.
Title: RE: How do lightguns work?
Post by: PIAC on July 09, 2003, 02:44:50 PM
i was just wondering about this the other day so thats how it works... cool!
Title: RE: How do lightguns work?
Post by: Termin8Anakin on July 15, 2003, 12:33:13 AM
it would have been cool if they had those little Flash animations.....those are cool.
Title: How do lightguns work?
Post by: Oldskool 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
I wonder if the other games that use such devices have to pay royalties to Nintendo?
so thats how it works... cool!
