16th February 2017, 7:39 PM
I got a Super Scope as a present years ago when it was new. I've had the thing long enough to form some solid opinions on it First off, as with the Zapper it's very accurate, but it only works on CRT screens or those occasional weird TVs that use CRT timing on some other display (good luck finding any of those these days). The issue is the thing is far too big. Nintendo's decision to make the thing look like a bazooka was pretty silly in retrospect. Not that shrinking it would have reduced it's battery consumption, but it would have made it far easier to handle and aim. I said it was accurate, but considering just how far the sights are from the light sensor, setting up it's calibration is a pretty tricky proposition. Move around even a little bit and you throw it all off again. Sega's Menacer was easier to handle, but the best light guns were Konami's Enforcers.
"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)