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Your trusty hunting dog wades into the marshes to flush out your prey. Your fingers tighten around your Zapper light gun. Suddenly, there's a duck in the air! You've only got three shots to bag this duck, and if you miss, even your dog laughs at you! But become a sharp shooter, and you'll progres...

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Developer
Nintendo

Released on
1984

Size
1–2 Players

Version
NES

Requirements
Nintendo Entertainment System

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Shooter

ESRB Rating
Not Rated

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Your trusty hunting dog wades into the marshes to flush out your prey. Your fingers tighten around your Zapper light gun. Suddenly, there’s a duck in the air! You’ve only got three shots to bag this duck, and if you miss, even your dog laughs at you! But become a sharp shooter, and you’ll progress to the next round where two ducks fly up at the same time. And then you’re on to the ultimate challenge: Clay Shooting, where you’ll compete in a wild clay-pigeon shooting contest. Play DUCK HUNT and discover you can have lots of laughs and be challenged at the same time!

Duck Hunt

Overview & History

Released by Nintendo in 1984 for the Famicom and subsequently bundled with the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985 alongside Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt stands as an iconic pillar of early console history. While the game features no traditional narrative storyline—omitting dialogue and grand quests—it drops the player straight into a pastoral wetland environment as an unnamed hunter armed with a shotgun. Backed by your trusty, yet famously cheeky, hunting dog, the objective is straightforward: shoot down migrating waterfowl before they escape the top of the screen. Its ingenious use of the NES Zapper light gun utilized CRT sensor technology, forever embedding the sharp "crack" of the plastic pistol and the mocking laughter of the animated canine into the collective consciousness of 1980s gamers.

Gameplay Features & Mechanics

Duck Hunt delivers fast-paced, arcade-style shooting action spread across three distinct game modes: Game A (one duck), Game B (two ducks simultaneously), and Game C (clay pigeon shooting). Players are given three shots per round to hit their targets. Failing to do so triggers the game's most memorable character interaction: your hunting dog pops up from the tall grass, pointing and laughing at your missed shots. Progression is tracked via rounds of 10 targets each, requiring a minimum accuracy percentage to advance to increasingly frantic difficulty levels. The physics are instantly responsive, turning a simple target-practice premise into a high-stakes test of reflexes and hand-eye coordination.