25th March 2005, 6:43 PM
That sounds a bit off...
Oh yes, lazy, you misunderstood me. I was saying the NES doesn't care if the TV is on in the sense that what the TV is doing doesn't matter. In other words, if you are playing Super Mario Brothers, you can play it just fine. But yes, you do need the TV to be on for the gun to see the light (LIGHT, not electrons).
From what I can gather, the Duck Hunt game determines which duck you hit by exactly WHEN it is able to see the white box when you click the trigger. It certainly doesn't read electrons. It can't.
Oh yes, lazy, you misunderstood me. I was saying the NES doesn't care if the TV is on in the sense that what the TV is doing doesn't matter. In other words, if you are playing Super Mario Brothers, you can play it just fine. But yes, you do need the TV to be on for the gun to see the light (LIGHT, not electrons).
From what I can gather, the Duck Hunt game determines which duck you hit by exactly WHEN it is able to see the white box when you click the trigger. It certainly doesn't read electrons. It can't.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)