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Re: First Console?

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totally forgot my GBC i loved that thing that was my first "console" but it was awsome i had up till bout a year ago when i threw it out the window
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NES with Super Mario Bros. 3. I had my mom help me with the hard parts.

Now over 15 years later, I find my mom playing the SNES with Mario All-Stars popped in and I have to help her with the hard parts.
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I myself started with a gameboy advance? or n64? or no no, it was a sega genesis :D I remember now, my dad got it out of our storage thing, and we played the shit out of sonic :D

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NES, though I barely remember it. I have the faintest memories of a few games but nothing really. SNES, which I still have. Not that many games for it which surprises me considering. Also a Sega Megadrive II. played sonic on it no end XD.

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I had a NES with SMB and duck hunt. I wonder how that gun controller worked... I don't remember a sensor bar. I don't remember much about it, but yeah. NES is and always will be my humble origins.
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I almost think it had a camera in it, and it spotted the colors or something....
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OmegaGDS wrote:I had a NES with SMB and duck hunt. I wonder how that gun controller worked... I don't remember a sensor bar. I don't remember much about it, but yeah. NES is and always will be my humble origins.

It was actually pretty damn simple. Basically when you pulled the trigger everything on the screen would go black except for the duck which would be drawn white (this only would happen for a single frame I believe). If the sensor in the barrel of the light gun determined that it was pointed at the white object at the instant it would then relay that information to the game. You might also be interested in knowing that this will only work on CRT screens and not on LCDs or Plasmas, the days of Duckhunt are coming to an end!
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hurstshifter wrote:
OmegaGDS wrote:I had a NES with SMB and duck hunt. I wonder how that gun controller worked... I don't remember a sensor bar. I don't remember much about it, but yeah. NES is and always will be my humble origins.

It was actually pretty damn simple. Basically when you pulled the trigger everything on the screen would go black except for the duck which would be drawn white (this only would happen for a single frame I believe). If the sensor in the barrel of the light gun determined that it was pointed at the white object at the instant it would then relay that information to the game. You might also be interested in knowing that this will only work on CRT screens and not on LCDs or Plasmas, the days of Duckhunt are coming to an end!
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Well at least I was right with the camera thing :D
as for duckhunt I haven't played that game in years, but I loved it...
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N64, but I had my experiences with my cousin's SNES or NES
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hurstshifter wrote:
OmegaGDS wrote:I had a NES with SMB and duck hunt. I wonder how that gun controller worked... I don't remember a sensor bar. I don't remember much about it, but yeah. NES is and always will be my humble origins.

It was actually pretty damn simple. Basically when you pulled the trigger everything on the screen would go black except for the duck which would be drawn white (this only would happen for a single frame I believe). If the sensor in the barrel of the light gun determined that it was pointed at the white object at the instant it would then relay that information to the game. You might also be interested in knowing that this will only work on CRT screens and not on LCDs or Plasmas, the days of Duckhunt are coming to an end!
oh, that is pretty simple. I never thought of it doing that...
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Mine was an Snes that my brother owned my first personally owned console was an N64
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OmegaGDS wrote:
hurstshifter wrote:
It was actually pretty damn simple. Basically when you pulled the trigger everything on the screen would go black except for the duck which would be drawn white (this only would happen for a single frame I believe). If the sensor in the barrel of the light gun determined that it was pointed at the white object at the instant it would then relay that information to the game. You might also be interested in knowing that this will only work on CRT screens and not on LCDs or Plasmas, the days of Duckhunt are coming to an end!
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I had one of these if that counts, but can't find the actual one with the right games I had.

I also had a NES. I'm not sure in which order. Duck Hunt/Mario ftw.
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Re: First Console?

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I had a SNES :mrgreen: Zelda Link to the Past/Street Fighter 2 ftw!
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