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How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? Terrence Dorsey 28 Jan '13 - 12:10  Mental Floss[^]:If you’re a geek of a certain age, a good portion of your childhood probably revolved around sitting too close to the TV, clutching a plastic safety cone-colored hand gun and blasting waterfowl out of a pixilated sky in Duck Hunt (also, trying to blow that dog’s head off when he... Re: How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? PIEBALDconsult 28 Jan '13 - 13:14  So then why doesn't it work with LCD TVs? Re: How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? s_mon 28 Jan '13 - 21:28  Due the refresh rate[^]   You already knew that, didn't you (yes|no|maybe)* Re: How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? PIEBALDconsult 29 Jan '13 - 3:14  That's what I thought. But the explanation given in the blog entry doesn't seem to support that. Ergo, I think the blog entry is wrong. Re: How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? s_mon 29 Jan '13 - 4:28  Mhm... rather not very precise (yes|no|maybe)* Re: How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work? wout de zeeuw 29 Jan '13 - 4:26  That was bleedingly obvious, you'd see a flashing white rectangle on a black background (or the otherway around). You could hold the thing against the screen and cheat it. Wout

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