[Nick] has turned one of his old NES peripherals into a wireless phone. The way the original Zapper worked was by looking for a certain pattern of pixels that displayed for a fraction of a second ...

You know, for a gaming controller, the NES Zapper was an impressive piece of kit. It may be pretty basic in today's standards, but given how it allowed people to "shoot" ducks on their screen all ...

Hardware Forget saving thousands for the newest iPhone. One hacker has turned his NES Zapper gun from Duck Hunt into a laser driven wireless phone News By Hope Corrigan published 29 May 2025 ...

Most will remember the Zapper as the bundled accessory that came with the NES Action Set, and the controller of necessity for playing Duck Hunt and a handful of other gallery-based shooting games.

If you’ve ever so much as held the good old-fashioned NES Zapper, you’ve probably had at least one fantasy about how cool it would be if it was an actual laser gun. Thanks to some modding from ...