Nintendo taps into its back catalog for this week’s Wii U eShop update, as the company has reissued a series of classic games via its Virtual Console service that originally featured support for the ...

The NES Zapper is best known as the light-gun used to play Duck Hunt on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The Zapper came in both a bright orange coloration, as well as a gray and red option that ...

Now relegated to musty arcades, rickety old piers and that dingy corner at the local bowling alley behind the pool tables, it's fair to say that the golden age of light gun games is well and truly ...

It’s an age-old question: what exactly was going on when you laid waste to cartoon ducks with the Nintendo Zapper? The 8-Bit Guy is here to exhaustively explain exactly how this beautiful little ...

The company which [Eric Wright] works for recently bought a Nintendo VS. It had Ice Climber installed as one of the titles but they asked the vendor if it was possible to swap it out for the Duck Hunt ...

The tech inside Nintendo's Duck Hunt Zapper gun is easily some of the coolest to come out of 80's gaming. The way this device worked with the NES to determine whether or not you'd shot those poor ...

There was no need to duck when this gun was brandished in a recent robbery, according to South Carolina deputies in the York County Sheriff's Office. Authorities say it turns out the recent robbery of ...

Even as Nintendo reissues its classic systems in new forms, its vintage stuff is still fantastic. The NES Zapper, an electronic light gun that worked with the old system, is a perfect example. But ...

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Splatoon is a game that’s very ...

Every nerd of a certain age has a slight weakness for 1980s technology — and thanks to shows like Stranger Things, there has never been a better time to get nostalgic about the decade that gave us big ...