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Today's shooting gallery games take advantage of high-tech infrared sensors and cameras. Back in the days of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, things were much simpler. More »
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...Zapper. Do try and remain calm, will you? Blitz's cricket platformer, first released in 2002, will be ready for download on your 360 on November 17, for the customary price of 1200 MS Points. Really, Microsoft. Zapper? It's the lead-up to Christmas, and you release Zapper? An average (and that's being kind) last-gen platformer that wasn't even an Xbox exclusive? You could have at least given us Blinx. Least that'd be good for a laugh or two. More »
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CrunchGear points to this pretty amazing Duck Hunt NES zapper lamp that features not only a Duck Hunt lampshade and orange plastic zapper, but also a replica Duck Hunt cart made of cardboard. More »
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Amazon.com has dropped the price of the Wii Zapper with Link's Crossbow Training to mere $20. Of course if you prefer your gun peripherals more gun like, there is also the Nyko Wii Perfect Shot Gun for $14.99 although that one doesn't come with a game. Whichever route you decide to take (if any) you will need to add an item or two on to your order to take advantage of the free shipping. More »
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Color me puzzled. Why would anyone, and I mean anyone, want to port a horrid, mostly unseen coin-op rail shooter from 2004 to the Wii? More »
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Despite beating both games countless times in arcades, this The House of the Dead 2 and 3 Return bundle may be reason enough to pick up a Wii Zapper. Featuring two of Sega's famous shooters, the newly announced pack will include the already announced games along with Nintendo's newest Zapper casing for about $44 when it's released this March in Japan. Here's hoping the bundle makes its way stateside, since the game alone is currently priced at about $40. For $4, the Wii Zapper doesn't look all that bad (or difficult to stuff into my entertainment center). More »
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My friends, there are mods and there are mods. But for a mod to be awarded the immortality of Kotakutalics, it need be something extraordinary. This Wii Zapper constructed (solely?) of legos (UPDATE: screw grammar, I say it this way) is indeed something extraordinary. Because at long last, Man has the proper peripheral to play an honest game of LEGO Duck Hunt. And we're sure it's every bit as wonderful as we thought it to be. More »
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With the Wii Zapper now shipping to retailers in North America, concerned parents have already begun to ask the question: "How many innocent children will this molded plastic shell transform into cold and calculating murderous thugs?" Are you one of the worried conservatives who sees future with a sniper in every university bell tower, trained on the laser precise Wii Zapper? If so, you're the main topic of a recent Washington Post piece on the Wii peripheral some parents are equating to NRA membership and kids are apparently "salivating" for. More »
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Nintendo is no stranger to peripheral-justifying pack-ins. And while games like Gyromite and Super Scope 6 may not have ingrained the R.O.B. and Super Scope into the psyche of Nintendo gamers as strongly as Duck Hunt did with the original NES Zapper, Nintendo looks to have made the Wii version of the Zapper already memorable with Link's Crossbow Training. The game, which ships today with the Zapper casing for about $20 US, is a fantastic complement to the mini-game filled library of the Nintendo Wii, offering a nice variety of shooting gallery games. More »
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The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return for the Wii is no longer a rumor, as Sega has officially announced the collection for a Spring 2008 release. The Zapper-ready arcade port promises to offer "the full arcade experience of battling hordes of rabid zombies in the comfort of their homes." Surely a port of Typing of the Dead with USB keyboard support can't be far behind, can it? More »
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The Wii Zapper is due to hit store shelves next week, enabling Wii remotes and nunchuks to take the form of a nerfed simulacrum of a deadly space weapon. The Zapper, along with the packed-in game Link's Crossbow Training and a review copy of Medal of Honor Heroes 2, showed up at my door this morning, safely tucked away in an obscenely large cardboard box. Haven't had a minute yet to hook up the Wii, but I did assemble my Zapper, just to see how simple it was. The assembling and disassembling takes no more than a few seconds, meaning Zapper ownership won't hold your controller hostage. More »
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I'll be playing some real-life Cooking Mama, as I attempt to bake my first practice pie in anticipation for Thanksgiving. Plans for pumpkin and mince meat (sans meat) are forming, but we'll have to see how this weekend's beta pies turn out. On the gaming side, I'll be playing Super Mario Galaxy, maybe a little Uncharted: Drake's Fortune if I can scare myself up a copy. I'm also expecting a Wii Zapper to show up at some point soon, so I may take Link's Crossbow Training for extended impressions. If only I could fit in Half-Life 2: Episode Two at some point... More »
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Ghost Squad may not be the only arcade light gun shooter Sega plans to refit for the Wii Zapper, as Go Nintendo has uncovered a listing for House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return at rental service Gamefly. We can fairly safely assume that this will bring both The House of the Dead 2, based on the Sega Naomi hardware, and The House of the Dead III, originally for the Sega Chihiro hardware. The two titles have made console appearances on the Dreamcast and Xbox, respectively, but have never been bundled before. More »
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We're happy to see yet another Wii Zapper knock-off hitting the shelves. What's this one bring to the table? Well, first off, you save a sweet four bucks off the retail Wii Zapper (though we're guessing Link's Crossboy Training is worth at least that much). But on top of that tremendous savings, you also get a banana clip hand grip for full-on guerrilla-style warfare. Would Nintendo ever support tropical jungle mercenary justice? Don't think so. Lamos. More »
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One of the four games in Nintendo's so-called "Zapper Alley" was EA's Medal of Honor Heroes 2, the Wii sequel to the PSP-exclusive entry in the long-running World War II shooter series. It follows the first Heroes adherence to the Medal of Honor gameplay, already established by numerous games and expansions on virtually every platform, but also contains a Wii-friendly on-rails shooter mode. My first hands on time with the game was spent with the more arcade-style light gun-esque mode, one that should prime FPS noobs for the more complex half of the game. While Medal of Honor Heroes 2 doesn't shatter the mold, it does nail both modes from a control perspective. Unfortunately, there are a handful of problems. More »
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One of the few games at this week's E For All Expo that I hadn't had extended hands-on time with was Sega's arcade light gun shooter Ghost Squad. The Wii port of the Chihiro hardware arcade release doesn't reinvent the genre, but it makes a fine addition to the library of games playable with the Wii Zapper peripheral. This is straight up, old school arcade action, providing plenty of terrorists to shoot dead, and potentially loaded with more replayability than any home light gun shooter to date. More »
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Link's Crossbow Training is the best $19.99 you'll ever spend on the Wii. Not only do you get a chintzy plastic shell in which you'll hold your Wii remote and Nunchuk that you can eventually offload on eBay, you'll get the best shooter pack-in since Duck Hunt. Despite the "training" moniker, Link's Crossbow Training isn't going to be confused with Nintendo's series of brain and vision strengthening software titles. It will, however, bring out the high score thirsty fiend in you. More »
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Everyone loves the Wii Zapper. It's the best thing since the Super Scope and on par with sliced bread, but a few concerned New Jersey based parents and grandparents aren't on board with Nintendo's plans to release this deadly peripheral. In a post on the Parental Guidance blog hosted at the Star Ledger, readers complained that the Zapper was "irresponsible" and that "the marketing person who came up with this brain child of an idea should be fired." More »
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Capcom has pumped out some twenty new screens of its Zapper-ific Wii shooter Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. It's looking better than ever and my cranky disdain for the game may be slowly eroding, revealing a shiny, smooth interest just under the hard curmudgeon exterior. On the one hand, the gameplay has seemed a bit clunky when I've had hands on time, but on the other, zombies. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=299370&view=rss&microfeed=true Here's a closer look at the Wii Zapper as modeled by the lovely Jason of Nintendo. In talking to people I notice they are of two camps when it comes to the Zapper, they either love it or hate it. The only game I really got to try it out on was Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles and I'd have to say that once I got used to it I really liked it, but it was a bit awkward at first. I had played RE:UC at a capcom event in NYC before the advent of the Zapper with just the Wii-remote and the nunchuk and I found the Zapper configuration to be much tighter and more satisfying since you get more a sense of actually shooting something rather than pointing and clicking. So the Wii Zapper gets my thumbs up at least as far as Resident Evil goes, for the rest, we'll have to wait and see. More »
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Kotaku reader Daniel points out that Gamestop is listing the Wii Blaster for $20 hitting the Wii on May 1. More »
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More great papercraft from model meister NinjaToes! This time we have the Nintendo Zapper light gun that I'm sure most of us spent many hours using to play Duck Hunt. Included on the page are plans and instructions for the orange and classic grey versions of the Zapper, with or without fold lines. When you get to the page scroll down past the Samurai Pizza Cats pizza parlour, the One Piece pirate ship and the Batmobile to get to the Zapper. It's a pretty simple morel to put together and great if your just starting out on your new life as an obsessive paper cutter and folder. Flynn De Marco More »
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We got all verklempt when we spotted the Zapper in the display case alongside all the other previously seen Wii peripherals, because we loved Duck Hunt back in the day and rumors were that a Wii version would be announced at E3. No Duck Hunt, alas—there weren't any games utilizing the Zapper on the floor, it's still a design in progress. We'll have more photos from inside Nintendo's Wii area, including our hands on impressions of Twilight Princess and Super Mario Galaxy, up in a few minutes. More »
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