kartooner

Duck Hunt for the Nin­tendo Enter­tain­ment Sys­tem (NES) was the gold­mine of games for my brother and I when were were younger. Of course to play the game you had to have the Nin­tendo Light Gun but once all the gear was set you were in for an awe­some game.

The object of the game was sim­ple. Gun. Dog. Aim. Shoot.

The hunt­ing dog who accom­pa­nied you in the game would slowly sniff his way along the screen and jump into the bushes to scare the ducks. At which point with care­ful aim and focus you’d pro­ceed to shoot as many ducks as pos­si­ble. There were a cou­ple modes of play offered; ducks and clay shoot­ing. In the clay shoot­ing mode, clay disks would blast across the screen and your job was to shoot them out of oblivion.

If you want to check it out for your­self, play this excel­lent Flash con­ver­sion. Although it doesn’t fea­ture the Clay Shoot­ing mode every­thing is per­fectly emulated.

While you’re at it, you might want to try Midway’s (flash-powered) arcade emu­la­tions. They include such clas­sics as Spy Hunter, Ram­page and Tapper.