The NES Zapper can be transformed into a wireless phone by manipulating the hardware. The inventor, Nick A. Bild, bypassed anti-cheating protections to create a wireless phone. The modded Zapper ...

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We might occasionally pick up a Zapper for the NES and play this classic out of nostalgia, but plenty of people are looking for other things that these unique video game controllers can do instead.

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.