“It comes with a GUN!,” every kid in America thought when they first saw the Nintendo Entertainment System. Forget that goofy robot—the Zapper is why we all wanted an NES. (Well, that and Super Mario ...

The Zapper’s ancestry goes back to the mid 1930s, when the first so-called “light guns” appeared after the development of light-sensing vacuum tubes. In the first light gun game, Ray-O-Lite (developed ...

Light guns were around in the 1930’s beginning with Seeburg’s Ray-O-Light arcade shooter all the way back in 1936. The game involved a moving duck which must be shot in order to achieve a point.

The simplicity of hunting down ducks by pointing a toy gun at the TV and pulling the trigger thoughtlessly made "Duck Hunt" one of the most-enjoyed Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games. Its ...