I'm just curious, how are you playing Zapper games these days? Are you playing on a CRT with original hardware?
I enjoyed the review. I owned this one and liked it OK, but I guess I always preferred Duck Hunt as a kid. Later I discovered Wild Gunman. The latter is very simple, yet still kind of addictive to me.
I don't own a CRT and realistically don't have space to keep one. Yet I didn't want my kids to miss out on the joys of light gun games, plus they enjoy them so much at the arcades, so I picked up a Sinden Light Gun earlier this year to play them at home emulated via Batocera. It works reasonably well, but not nearly as carefree as just plugging a light gun into original hardware in the old days.
You are correct, I am playing on an original NES on a CRT monitor. Unfortunately, I’ve been having issues with the screen “jumping” and it take several light whacks to get a clear image. Is is likely a sign that a capacitor is eventually going to die and I’ll be out of luck.
I’m currently looking for a 20 inch CRT to replace it, but CRTs are very hard to come by these days. Let me know if you know where I get one online.
I can still see them on eBay. But with every passing year, I imagine their reliability and remaining useful life is diminishing, until the only ones left will be preserved by a handful of electronics savants that are able to salvage and improvise their own replacement parts.
I'm just curious, how are you playing Zapper games these days? Are you playing on a CRT with original hardware?
I enjoyed the review. I owned this one and liked it OK, but I guess I always preferred Duck Hunt as a kid. Later I discovered Wild Gunman. The latter is very simple, yet still kind of addictive to me.
I don't own a CRT and realistically don't have space to keep one. Yet I didn't want my kids to miss out on the joys of light gun games, plus they enjoy them so much at the arcades, so I picked up a Sinden Light Gun earlier this year to play them at home emulated via Batocera. It works reasonably well, but not nearly as carefree as just plugging a light gun into original hardware in the old days.
You are correct, I am playing on an original NES on a CRT monitor. Unfortunately, I’ve been having issues with the screen “jumping” and it take several light whacks to get a clear image. Is is likely a sign that a capacitor is eventually going to die and I’ll be out of luck.
I’m currently looking for a 20 inch CRT to replace it, but CRTs are very hard to come by these days. Let me know if you know where I get one online.
I can still see them on eBay. But with every passing year, I imagine their reliability and remaining useful life is diminishing, until the only ones left will be preserved by a handful of electronics savants that are able to salvage and improvise their own replacement parts.