Classic Duck Hunt game made in JavaScript and Kaplay

  • Love it - I'm sure our old tube TV still has scratches from when I used to get too excited as a kid and pressed the NES zapper directly against the glass.

    I'm also a big fan of re-purposing sprite sheets from old video games - years ago I wrote a little edutainment game called "Aladdin's Mathemagical Flying Carpet" to help teach my little brothers the multiplication tables.

    https://specularrealms.com/alad

    Any retro gamer will instantly recognize the assets.

  • This is great! Super nostalgia.

    Also -- anyone who doesn't know how the original light guns worked, it's worth a read. This crowd will likely appreciate the solution.

  • 1. Awesome and well done!

    2. But it doesn't have the classic "win" sound that I remember so fondly :(

    3. Prepare to be destroyed by Nintendo

  • Great job, this is kid tested and approved. My 12yo son, who plays a lot of FPS games discovered how bad he is using the trackpad on my MacBook Pro. It was a lot of fun seeing him as frustrated at the laughing dog as I was in 1986 on my NES.

  • nice!

    kaplay is underrated as a game engine imho, especially for teaching. It's intuitive and quite simple, and the web playground has some assets built in so it's immediately ready to go.

  • I put my mouse against the screen but it didn't make me better at aiming in this version of the game unfortunately ;)

    Thank you for letting us relive this moments of childhood!

  • The Score and Round text rendered strangely in Firefox for me, but worked great in Chrome.

  • It was amusing to realise the duck flight patterns use the same logic as the DVD logo.

  • Awesome game, one of my favorites from my childhood.

    I got 9100 points, was going great until level 9 where it all fell apart.