How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work?
That actually was better than I thought ... I had to double-check on Wikipedia (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_gun#Sequential_targets" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_gun#Sequential_targets</a>) but I didn't know about the sequential-targets approach.<p>I guess that's because my first exposure to light gun tech was with Commodore hardware, that had already taken the leap to cathode ray timing. Nice to know.<p>The decline of lightgun tech with the introduction of flat-screen TV:s is something that sometimes makes me sad. The replacement "passive/dead-reckoning" techniques just don't feel as satisfying, or elegant.<p>On the other hand, keeping a tube TV around just to play Time Crisis is hard to motivate, too. :)