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The part about the game "not having an ending" may not be completely true. At our dorm, we had a guy who played the skeet shooting all way to round 99 (the round # only supports 2 digits). When he moved on to the next round, the game moved to round #00, and glitched. The clay pigeons moved at half-speed, but only proceeded half-way up the screen before disappearing. He was caught unaware, and thus his round ended there. This has only been done the one time here, so we are unsure as to whether it's supposed to happen this way or if it's a glitch. --
KoopaTroopa211 00:59, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
That's cool! I've never gotten that far up myself. But that doesn't sound like it's supposed to happen. Apparently, Nintendo underestimated it's players!
66.25.251.56 (
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Good question. I don't know what that means. I removed it for now.
Andre (
talk) 23:13, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
Stub and expand request
This article seems long enough that it's not a stub anymore. I removed the expand request because the article is not a stub and no requests to expand a particular section were made either on the talk page or
WP:RFE. If someone wants a section in particular expanded, please feel free to put the expand request back with a note. --
Pagrashtak17:27, 22 August 2005 (UTC)reply
bcz those two were the hunters, and Rummy only joined them for dinner. (FWIW, i had the advantage over the previous author, of not only being sure how to pronounce Scalia's name -- which the other may well have known but given up on -- but also being able to ask someone who knows that
Dvořák's given name is not spelled "Antonine". Yikes!) --
Jerzy•
t02:32, 18 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Well, I suggested the merge because of the revelation that the so-called Duck Hunt sequel was just a tech demo, and that there is no evidence that a sequel to Duck Hunt is even being considered for release. I just thought that in light of that fact,
Duck Hunt Wii doesn't really deserve its own page, and should be merged into
Duck Hunt. But it seems I am holding the minority opinion.
Dancter05:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)reply
I seem to remember the game being used in a commercial in the 80's. I forgot long ago what the product was, but it involved a heavyset man in an armchair playing the game and talking to the camera. it wasn't for anything to do with video games, but the game was used as a humor piece. does anybody else remember this? —The preceding
unsigned comment was added by
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contribs) 16:55, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Stop spamming your damn webcomic
I don't give a damn how awesome you think that webcomic is, it is nothing approaching anything of encyclopedic value. It's a worthless link, it's not "popular" culture by a long shot, it's subtrivial linkspam. -
Hahnchen15:15, 23 September 2006 (UTC)reply
I don't like it either and I found a picture
here, but my computer doesn't let me upload any pictures and I don't know why. If you could do it, that would be great.--
Clyde Miller22:45, 7 December 2006 (UTC)reply
GA on hold
Just a few things that I believe need attention before this can become a GA:
In the "Gameplay" section; there is some confusing prose. I still cannot figure out whether you shoot clay pigeons and ducks in the same mode or whether they were seperate modes in the game. Please clarify this.Done
Also in the gameplay section:
In the case of Clay Pigeon shooting it doesn't continue forever either. After level 99, the player advanced to level "00". On level "00" you can shoot giant Clay Pigeons. And after that it loops to level 1 again.
I dare say there is some clumsy prose in there. There are too many uses of the word "it". There are also past-tense/present-tense conflicts. Suggested fix:
The Clay Pigeon mode also does not continue forever. Upon completing level 99, the player advances to level "00", which contains giant pigeons for the player to shoot. After completing this level, the game restarts at level 1 again.Done
This would work dependent on two things. The aformentioned question about the "Clay Pidgeon" mode, and whether the game loops (i.e. keeps the player's score accumulated from the previous rotation), or simply restarts (i.e. resets the player's score to zero). A little clarification would be nice here.
I took care of the mode problem, but I don't remember about the starting over.
Also in the gameplay section, please provide a citation that states that there is an urban legend about shooting the dog.Done
There is no section about the game's origins and development. While I realize that there may not be so much information on that topic, it at least seems worth a brief mention, which would be more than what is currently said about it.
I have combed the Earth twice for anything about Duck Hunt development, and it doesn't exist. I have looked everywhere. I don't think I missed something, but there was a lot about developements going on about Duck Hunt season, so it's possible.
I did a bit of digging for you, and found that Duck Hunt was developed at
Nintendo R&D1 under the supervision of Takehiro Izushi. I found this info in
this article, and a few others here or there confirm this. The trick is to do a google search with quotes, such as "Duck Hunt" Nintendo development, which was the search I did. If you could somehow work into the article that little is known about the game's development except that it was developed at Nintendo R&D1 under the supervision of Takehiro Izushi...you get the point.
Green45102:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)Donereply
The following statement:
Video Game Critic reviewed the game in 2004, and didn't like the game either. They gave it a D and said "there's really not much substance to it." and "Overall Duck Hunt is pretty lame, and only worth playing for a trip down memory lane."
This could be possibly stated more effectively. Suggested fix:
Video Game Critic, another online site, revewed the game in 2004 and was not very impressed, giving the game a "D" rating and stating "there's really not much substance to it...Overall Duck Hunt is pretty lame, and only worth playing for a trip down memory lane."Done
As an additional note, please provide a direct link to the Video Game Critic review in your citation, rather than simply the address of the home page.
you found out my problem on your own.
I'm not too happy about the use of IMDb pages as citations, as IMDb also relies on user-contributed material, which can be incorrect in some cases. If you can, find an alternative citation (such as the composer's official website, etc.) which contains his credit list. In the event you cannot, the IMDb reference can be kept, I suppose.
Tanaka has no official website, but if you like
this or
this better I could out it in instead. Otherwise I think that IMDb is all I got.
It's a very long list, I know, but most of these are simple fixes, and the prose, with the exception of the above-mentioned problems, looks fine to me. Happy editing,
Green45103:24, 10 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Now that I look at it, I believe it would help if you flipped the sentences about the game never ending and the part about the game having three modes. For some reason, I completely missed that part when I was reading it over at first, and the references to modes before it is explained how many there are, etc. is a little bit awkward.Done
Spelling mistake: deo Game CriticDone
I figured out why you linked to the main Video Game Critic page instead of the review. The link to the actual Duck Hunt review, which I figured out after a bit of searching, is:
http://www.videogamecritic.net/nesce.htm#Duck_HuntDone
Per the style guidelines for computer and video games (found
here), all descriptions of the gameplay should be in the present tense, and second-person pronouns (i.e. "you") should be avoided. "The player" should be used instead.Done
Can you convert all of the web references over to
Template:Cite web? That is the standard citation format used for web references. See
Psycho (1960 film) for an idea of what I'm talking about.Done
I'll start working on that, but that will take a little while.
As an additional note, could you include the publisher field in the cite web templates? You would just have to put in the name of the website, i.e. IGN, Video Game Critic, etc. As well, the format and work paramaters (with the exception of the Flash document, in which you should put Flash in the format field) are not needed.
Green45117:59, 10 December 2006 (UTC)reply
The lead states that the game was released in the US in 1984, but the infobox states that its US release was in 1985. I would actually say that the game was "first released in 1984 in Japan." Considering that this is a Japanese game, it seems only fair to say Japan instead of the US. This will also eliminate the cries of U.S. bias that would surely follow.Done
Three more things that I would like to see citations for: "Duck Hunt was one of the two original pack-in titles for the first release of the game system (the other was Gyromite)",Done "Duck Hunt was available in a standard single cartridge form, but it is somewhat more scarce than the packaged versions.", and "the WarioWare, Inc. series feature microgames based on Duck Hunt several times."Done
As to the single cartridge, it must have been orginal research because no figures or comparisons exist
It would be nice to see some citations on the level "00" thing.Done
I am starting to have to get really picky, and before you know it, I will be out of things to critique. To be honest with you, this is my first time reviewing a GA nom, so I might get a more experienced reviewer to come in and make sure I'm doing this properly. Thanks, and keep up the good work,
Green45123:02, 10 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Addendum: I just had my review checked by a more experienced reviewer, and apparantly I am doing fine, and possibly even being a bit too picky! After all the stuff that still has to be done is done, I will probably pass it for GA unless something major crops up at the last minute (I'm sure it won't).
Green45123:28, 10 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Well I think I'm done with all of the suggestions. If there's anything I missed, please add it to the list. Otherwise, I think there is nothing stopping Duck Hunt from GA. Thanks for giving this article the peer review it never had.--
Clyde Miller02:17, 11 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Wow, Clyde. You have been incredible making all of these changes. There are just a few more things that need fixing, all minor stuff, and the last standing in the way to GA status. So, I present to you, the final round of suggestions:
The lead still has past-tense/present-tense conflicts in the parts describing gameplay. Change all of these to present-tense.Done
In the lead, "that uses the
NES Zapper to shoot ducks on screen for points" should be "in which players use the
NES Zapper to shoot ducks on screen for points"Done
Change the developer field in the infobox to
Nintendo R&D1.Done
"players have a special gun apparatus, the Nintendo Zapper Light Gun that they plug into the NES console, and attempt to shoot down" should be "players use a special gun apparatus called the Nintendo Zapper Light Gun that must be plugged into the NES console, and attempt to shoot down" "players utilize the Nintendo Zapper Light Gun plugged into their NES consoles" should be "players utilize the Nintendo Zapper Light Gun that must be plugged into their NES consoles"Done
"Duck Hunt is also released as an arcade game in 1984" should be "Duck Hunt was also released as an arcade game in 1984".Done
Can you provide a citation stating that the game does not continue forever when in clay pigeon mode?
No. It's something that is found by playing through the ending was never citied anywhere. Get rid of it if you must, but it's important and can't be citied.
I dumped the sentence. For all I know it's not true. Now I think nothing stands between this article and GA.
If you can't find a source stating that the game was released as a single cartridge, you should probably remove the whole statement about it.Done
Duck Hunt did indeed come on a single cartridge, I saw several as a kid. In fact some NES bundles came with individual copies of SMB and Duck Hunt instead of the combo cart, however the 2-in-1 cartridge was far more common.
Draknfyre07:11, 7 February 2007 (UTC)reply
"The music has been called" should be "The music has been described as"Done
Provide a citation stating that Duck Hunt is represented in the Video Games Live tour.Done
"Finally, the WarioWare, Inc. series feature microgames based on Duck Hunt" should be "Finally, games in the WarioWare, Inc. series feature microgames based on Duck Hunt." Remove the word "Finally". Is that the final game which mentions Duck Hunt?Done
The "Playbility of Wii" section also has past-tense/present-tense conflicts. All statements in this section should be in present-tense.Done
Reference number 8 (the one to the Flash game) has an improperly formatted date (it should be 2006-09-20), and the format parameter should say "Flash".Done
That's all folks! Once you implement this last set of suggestions, I will promote the article to GA status. How long have you waited for this? I hope it was worth it! Happy editing,
Green45103:01, 11 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Just as one more note, if you're wondering why I didn't make any of these changes myself when they were so simple...? Well, I'm pretty sure I can't if I want to maintain my distance and review the article for GA, but you probably knew that...anyways, just wanted to let you know.
Green45103:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Update: JimmyBlackwing went through the article and did a through copyedit which changed or eliminated some of my suggestions above. I have gone and marked the stuff he fixed with the done template. The stuff that is not marked "done" still needs to be done. And, in addition don't forget to make sure that everything that can be wikilinked is wikilinked.
Green45117:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC)reply
After 5.5 hours and something like 40 edits, I made all corrections. Anything else, add it, otherwise I'm done. BTW, you may want to make sure you look at the differences between GA and FA. I've seen them, and they're vast. I wasn't gonna go for FA with this, but you've made me think twice with all the work I've been doing. The thing that makes me lean toward no is that it took me 200+ edits to get an article featured.--
Clyde Miller01:35, 12 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Passed GA
Congrats, Clyde. I have promoted the article to GA as all of my suggestions (and there were a lot of them, I know) have been implemented. Thanks for making all of the changes with pretty much no fuss. Being new at this, I wasn't sure what I was going to get from people by critisizing their articles. My positive interaction with you makes me more eager to do more reviews on other GA noms, for other people. You're right when you said that I might have been leaning more toward FA quality, and this is because I hung around
WP:FAC for a long time and got familiar with the criteria there before I ever found out about GA criteria. If you have any more questions, just give me a shout. Cheers,
Green45101:46, 12 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Easier on Smaller TV's
I remember from playing this game that it was easier A) the smaller the TV; B) the further away you were from the TV. It makes sense because the area the gun paints will expand outward like a cone, meaning that the further away or the smaller the tv, the larger the relative area you are painting. Seems like this is a detail that is interesting enough to go in the article, under the gameplay section. Probably need some way to back it up though....
Micximus20:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)reply
I'll take a look for some sort of reference, but you know what your looking for better than I would. If you give me a website I'll try to add it.--
Clyde Miller21:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)reply
I've again removed the link to the 80's music lyrics website. Per
WP:EL, articles should not link to sites that provide material in violation of the copyright owner's rights. --
Mikeblas01:47, 30 June 2007 (UTC)reply
2-Players...
I'm not sure how to cite this (and Lord knows it'd need to be cited, as a lot of people don't know about this and won't believe it), but this article makes no mention of the 2-Player "One Duck" mode that's in the game... Should be in the article somewhere, but I'm not sure how the best way to do that would be... any suggestions?
71.171.182.16714:15, 5 July 2007 (UTC)reply
I'm probably the principal contributor here, and I looked around, and there aren't multiple published sources about the one person controls the duck one person shoots thing. As it is, few reviews and publications exist about this game, and the odds that they mention a glitch/extra/secret are very small. If you can give 1 or two online or printed publications I'll add it in.--
Clyde (
talk)
04:55, 15 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Oh yeah I saw stuff like that when I was working on the article. I think it wouldn't hold water since it was added by some random person, not an established journalist. It was a good try though, thanks, and I'll keep looking to see if something pops up.--
Clyde (
talk)
22:18, 15 July 2007 (UTC)reply
[2 Players:]
GAME A can also be played with two players.
One player is the hunter. The other player controls the ducks horizontally and
vertically with the control pad, trying to avoid the hunter's shots until the sky
color changes. (Ducks automatically escape when the sky color changes.)
Also, the back of the box says "Players: 1 or 2" - I can get a pic of that, if necessary, but it'll still be a crappy camera phone pic.
71.171.184.17903:55, 18 July 2007 (UTC)reply
I'm sorry I didn't see your post until six months later (as in right now). I can add it, I just need some info to fill the reference. An author or editor, publisher, publishing date publishing city, etc.--
CM (
talk)
14:25, 18 January 2008 (UTC)reply
Would that being in the manual help? I have a PDF copy and I know there are some of those online. On page 8 of the manual it clearly states that in 1 duck mode a second player can control the duck.
Theichibun (
talk)
15:51, 13 January 2011 (UTC)reply
I dunno, if I had to guess, I would argue that Duck Hunt was the first of Nintendo's light gun games - it seems more notable than any other Zapper gun games, but also a lot simpler than their games. Gumshoe, however, might predate it, I'd have to look it up. Nevermind, that came much later. -
A Link to the Past(talk)16:39, 21 October 2007 (UTC)reply
"Shoot the ducks, not me!" Screenshot
I recall earlier incarnations of this article showing a picture of the dog from Vs. Duck Hunt with the blackened face, cast and crutches shouting this, but it appears to be gone now.
No, but I never could resist taking potshots at that dog. :P
Zhane Masaki
Virtual Console games category??
If you look closely in the categories section, in the lowermost part of the article, you'll notice that this game is included in VC games category but... why, if it is NOT a Virtual Console game??? Does somebody know if it's ever going to see the light of VC service? If not, this category must be excluded from this article. —Preceding
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16:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)reply
The ducks appear one or two at a time, and the player is given three shots to shoot them down.
In Duck Hunt, players utilize the Nintendo Zapper Light Gun that must be plugged into their NES consoles, and attempt to shoot down either
ducks or
clay pigeons in mid-flight. Duck Hunt was also released as an
arcade game in 1984, and is included in the
PlayChoice-10 arcade console.
Most of the sources cited in the article are not
reliable sources and hence cannot provide for
verifiability of the content (criteria 2a and 2b), and some (such as those going to a YouTube video and a likely unauthorized Flash version of the game).
There is no review provided by
IGN or
GameSpot, and the unbased claim that "The game was not initially reviewed often" smacks of
original research as a result (criterion 2c).
Possibly only the Gameplay section (in which most of that content is unverifiable as I noted above) contains anything close to "broad coverage" (criterion 3), whereas all the remaining sections provide very little coverage—nothing that would be remotely considered "broad" in my view.
I'm not on wiki anymore and couldn't care less what happens. I might consider fixing it sometime if I'm ever at 100% ever again, but the sad truth is that there really aren't enough reliable sources to make this happen. I was quite surprised I was able to pull it off the first time.--
CM (
talk)
03:35, 9 February 2009 (UTC)reply
I subscribed to Nintendo Power since its first publication in 1988, and I don't even recall anything from Duck Hunt there. I think the problem is that it's so ubiquitous in everyone's mind, kind of like
Victory Auto Wreckers (if anyone here has lived in the
Chicagoland area, then you very well know how their TV commericals go verbatim), that very few bother to review it. It would be likely that someone would need to dig back into the mid-80s (like actually in late 1985 or 1986, when the NES was brand new) to find something in print on the game. I didn't even think it would be that hard to find reliable sources online, but maybe because it's something that common.
MuZemike08:04, 9 February 2009 (UTC)reply
There are a few more sources from outside the video game industry (that discuss the article in greater detail than a single sentence), such as the following articles:
Westbrook, Bruce (1986-12-21). "Toy high-tech puts zap into Christmas". Houston Chronicle.
"Sitting (room) ducks – Buzz". The Sunday Times. 1989-10-29.
Sometimes defunct magazines also have information about games, while other magazines, even decades after a game was released, decide to write about the game's development history—
User:Guyinblack25 had that kind of luck with Marble Madness (1984) from a 2008 article in the British magazine Retro Gamer. I'm working on Metroid (1987) right now, which was released in North America two years after Duck Hunt was released in North America, so they are both fairly hard to find information for—but it is out there. Gary King (
talk)16:26, 9 February 2009 (UTC)reply
While I have no doubt that SOME may find the dog to be annoying, I think that it could be easily disputed, and has no real grounds for the article. I won't change anything with the article, but maybe someone more involved in the page could consider editting or omitting that section, it just seems unneccessary and unsubstantiated. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
24.125.4.123 (
talk)
04:49, 29 June 2010 (UTC)reply
Version Without Clay Pigeons?
I'm playing Duck Hunt right now and my version just has 1 or 2 duck mode. No clay.
Cracked.com voted the dog from "Duck Hunt," as the most annoying video game character of all time. Don't believe me? Look it up on Cracked.com. Just type in "The Most Annoying Video Game Characters (From Otherwise Great Video Games) see what you find. It will only take you a second. Now I know what your thinking! James, Cracked.com is not a scientific place to judge whats the greatest game ever created. Were trying to keep logic and reason in the equation we don't need to put just any piece of any information from any website. I am aware of that factor. However simply because something is not based on scientific factors does not mean it cannot be accepted into a Wikipedia article. Cracked.com is a professional website and therefore work can be cited from it. Sure it will simply be the "oppinion," of the Cracked.com website but if I were to put down all the "oppinions," that are placed on Wikipedia then well...let's just say basically I'd have about 75 percent of the information on Wikipedia. Maybe not quite that much but you get what I mean. Please put this information down in your article!!!-James Pandora Adams —Preceding
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02:17, 17 May 2011 (UTC)reply
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