One of the major uses for this blog is to try to figure out the answers to questions that get asked while drinking, of which there are many. Here's the first one: How does the light gun from the classic Nintendo game "Duck Hunt" work?
It turns out this is pretty simple. When you pull the trigger, the video game screen goes black for one frame, and then flashes a white square in the location of the target for one frame. Rather than actually shooting anything, the light gun actually just senses if this white square is lined up in your sights. If it is, you hit your target. If not you're just going to have to deal with that dog laughing at you again.
Now off to the pub to think of new questions!
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