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