NES Zapper
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The Zapper was a light gun for the NES that worked very well in helping it sell as well as it did. Some of the games that used it were Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley, and Gotcha!The Sport. In Japan the Zapper was released as a realistic six-shooter but in America, due to government regulations, it was released as an unrealistic sci-fi gun, originally appearing in grey, but then also appearing as orange. The gun was very accurate, using infrared technology to shoot things. The next "gun" type item to be released by Nintendo was the Super Scope 6 on the SNES.
An updated version of the Zapper was released for the Wii titled simply the Wii Zapper, and came bundled with the video game Link's Crossbow Training, though was also used in various other titles.
