How the Nintendo Zapper worked in Slow Motion - The Slow Mo Guys

This is honestly so fascinating. I love this

Add Gyromite and ROB to it and now you're ahead of your time. Still have ROB sitting on my desk, literally looking at him right now.

Anybody else autistic enough to hear the electronics buzzing in the beginning or am I going insane

Wait, waaaaaaaait. Do you have the maps of light and dark worlds from a Link to the Past framed? That’s actually really sick!

Do you remember a show called "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future"...? Basically the same as the zapper gun, but you're holding frickin' spaceships.
...that might make an interesting video. Cuz it's not quite the same thing; you're shooting at pre-rendered video, not a game that reacts to your input... I'm curious now.

❤😂✊🏼😎you guys rule !!!

These phones can read our minds! I was just thinking yesterday i wonder how this worked and that it must have taken a snap shot of what it was pointed at on the screen.. and then here it came across my suggested videos! I never said a word to anyone about it! It was nothing more than a thought

As a 7 year old i figured i was able to cheat the game and shoot the duck by poining the gun at a fluroscent tubelight in our living room. Now I know why.

I wonder why our Super Nintendo looked so lame in comparison! And I always found that game to be advanced for our time! Thank you for explaining how it worked! 😊

i recorded my RGB keyboard with my phones slo-mo mode and some weird stuff was happening, it was waves of light going across but to my eye, its constantly lit.

How did a lightgun for SEGA saturn know the cursor position on the screen?

10 year old me thought, the gun was shooting an IR beam to detect if the duck had been in range

I wonder why putting the gun right up to the screen use to always register hits no matter where the duck was on the screen. If it is looking for white after dark on a trigger press why is it getting that sequence while pressed up against the screen. Afterglow from the phosphors of the previous painted frame probably was bright enough but then how did it see dark first.

I’ve always wondered how this worked so well on such an old console. Thank you for the explanation!

You think that's old school? Anyone else remember playing Pong or Adventure? 😋

You think it blows your mind now... You shoulda been a teen back then lol

Genius

I was a child when this product came on the market. I already programmed computers and understood how television worked. I was more amazed by how this system worked than by the game itself.

please do the insides of DLP projector....DLP is a Texas instruments invention and I'm pretty sure you've mentioned the texas heat before...tying in slo mo, your location & tech!

I still don't understand anything. Can anyone explain how the damn thing works in simpler terms?

and why this kind of tech not show of in today game console?

Just aim it on any color green on the screen and no duck will fly away. Made me look so cool before among my friends. 😂

And still, on this very day, the 22nd of January 2024, I have a SONY KDL-46S2000 tv that has not ever displayed anything that my SONY PS3 outputs.
I have tried every combination of everything with it. It won't.
I had to get a Samsung TV to play my Sony PS3.

Basically its a real world camera with unique ability, which paints white background around the subject after clicking but before capturing. Cool stuff

I found a trick when I played duck hunt. I just pointed the gun just under my TV , and killed about every duck every time, and I had an old black and white television

Where’s your buddy?

Absolutely fantastic! I always wondered how this worked.

Mind: blown.
The simplicity yet genius behind this peripherial is amazing.

I had a vague idea of how the zapper worked but not exactly. It really is an impressive piece of tech.

wanted to see speed traveling in slow-mo.

Wait, why couldn't we point it at our eyes then? I remember there being a big thing about 'don't point it at your eyes!" from everyone.

The way a color laser printer writes the image onto the photo receptive drum is very cool. It will use 4 lasers to write each of the primary colors that will overlap to create a photo

I love the design of the American SNES. I don’t know why some think it’s bad.

I sure have alot of memories of playing this game with my family when I was young!
Then one day my mom gave the console away for free saying "you guys didn't use it I assumed you didn't want it anymore"

I'd love to see early projector technology. Things like the virtualboy or R-zone headgear. What it's projecting onto the screen, how the light source is moving.

I really wanted to see how welding machine works

He owns a cat 🎉🎉🎉

*Flashbacks of Geoff playing the Duck Hunt horror game* 😂

So it was like a speed camera almost😀

Thank you so much

😮 S W E E T ! 🗣️ 🆒 !

This was very interesting!
I recall this game and that device(pistol), I never understood or bother how it worked. But yeah, there were some brilliant minds behind it.
The owner of the system claimed that it was easier to hit the ducks if the device near, actually touching the screen. But seeing this presentation I don't see how that would've mattered.
Also the cat be like "Guns for hunting ducks? LOL!" 😹😻

So how does it detect where you shoot lmao

I grew up with this 40 years ago I've always wondered how it worked!! What an amazing piece of engineering!!

I always wondered how that works. Very intelligent solution!

Man, from childhood I was trying to understand how this worked! thank you!!

i always wanted to know how such old technology knew where on a CRT TV screen i was aiming at and the range can be pretty large with different size screens or even the really large projection screen TVs.