It was called the Seeburg Ray-O-Lite and dates back to 1936, an era when humans had yet to discover "fun." From the description at Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum:

Seeburg was a company with an engineering departments focused on the design of vacuum tube amplifiers and gearing systems for jukeboxes. It was no surprise then that when the electric eye light sensing vacuum tube was introduced in the early 1930s that the Seeburg design teams would introduce a light ray game. [...] This game featured a flying duck with a light sensing tube that would drop the duck when you shot it with the rifle, which produced a beam of light when the trigger was pulled.

The graphics and animation just sound horrible! Michael McWhertor

1936 Seeburg Ray-O-Lite [via BoingBoing]

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