How exactly do light guns work?
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thop said:I've been wondering about that since i was a little kidI believe the first game was Duck Hunt for the NES?
Here's a link to a good site on games controllers.
Btw there were arcade games (iirc from Atari) that used lightgun in the late 70's, for the home consoles, i don't remember if the nes/famicom was(or wasn't) the first console with a lightgun, you could check http://www.vidgame.net/index.html , there's maybe the anwser there.
Bohdy said:
^ ^ (I'm not joking) At one point i thought the console was cheating. Like, it would randomly just go BOOM or MISS, because there was no way for me to understand how the hell it worked, there was no visible laser from the light gun, there was nothing going on, the thing worked only half the time... For a 7year-old boy those were tough days you know... And no one would explain to me WHY...
Light guns have a sensor that registers when the electron beam sweeps by on the inside of the CRT (hence, they do not work on LCD screens, nor do they on 100Hz TVs as these do not flicker enough). The game registers the pulses from the gun and refers the time of the pulse with the known position of the beam and hence knows if the target has been hit when the trigger is pulled.
Basically.
Basically.
Guden Oden said:Light guns have a sensor that registers when the electron beam sweeps by on the inside of the CRT (hence, they do not work on LCD screens, nor do they on 100Hz TVs as these do not flicker enough). The game registers the pulses from the gun and refers the time of the pulse with the known position of the beam and hence knows if the target has been hit when the trigger is pulled.
Basically.
