This game was a favourite of mine on the NES when I was little. It has a gun for a controller but it really isn't violent at all, especially next to some of these more recent games rated M for Mature on the newer consoles like the PS2 or 3 and Wii. I think I wanted to play Duck Hunt almost as much as I wanted to visit my nana (It was my brother's system when he was a kid but when he got the Super Nintendo the original NES got left at my nana's house for what she might call "newfangled entertainment for the grandkids"...) I also remember that this game was in the 3-in-1 cartridge with Mario and World Class Track Meet and by the time I was old enough to remember, World Class Track Meet was useless as we had permanently misplaced the necessary Power Pad, so we might as well have just had the original 2-in-1 cartridge (Whether I was playing Mario or Duck Hunt I remember I used to punch an entirely random code into the Game Genie, and I'd have been surprised if I ever came up with a real code, though it's impossible to remember).
Anyways, on to Duck Hunt. CLASSIC! Yes, it is repetitive. This may have actually been one reason for liking it as a child (I found out in my late teens that I was autistic, and we like routines and we like everything to be the same to the point where I have to order the same specific meal every time I go to a certain restaurant, but I digress). Also in my time as a young adult when I rediscovered Duck Hunt it didn't take me long to become utterly addicted (though I hate when that dog, who looks remarkably like Willoughby from the 1941 Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Heckling Hare", laughs at me for failing to shoot a duck).
Overall, I feel it is only necessary to say that this game will live on forever for those who remember playing it in its heyday. 10 stars out of 10.
