Duck Hunt

Duck Hunt is a light gun game video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System on April 21, 1984 in Japan, October 18, 1985 in North America, and August 15, 1987 in Europe. It was famously bundled together with Super Mario Bros.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Decent graphics for the time.
 * 2) Very simple game which is easy to just jump right into.
 * 3) The game was specially designed to use the light gun for shooting.
 * 4) The gameplay is incredibly addictive.
 * 5) Two game modes: Game A shows you one duck at a time to shoot and Game B shows you two at a time.
 * 6) With the second player controller it is possible to play the game in two players mode in Game A. The first player's goal is to hunt the ducks with the light gun while the second player must use the controller to move the ducks out of the screen.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The gameplay, while fun and addictive, can get repetitive before too long.
 * 2) Dog (also known as the Laughing Dog) is a very annoying character, as he constantly laughs at the player when they miss the ducks.

Trivia

 * This game was directly inspired by a 1976 game also called Duck Hunt, an early light gun shooter released on an obscure Nintendo arcade venue called Laser Clay Shooting System.