because you are old like me, do you remember the extra level/"mode" in the original pre-NES arcade version of Duck Hunt where you could actually shoot the dog?
It resulted in an instant game-over no matter how many "lives" remained. The dog would come out onscreen in a cast and crutches, holding up a GenmaSaotome-like sign saying "OUCH! Shoot the ducks, not me!"
I don't think I ever actually played the arcade Duck Hunt. I was too busy playing Super Mario Brothers or Excitebike on the machine at our local arcade.
But I can totally see the dog doing that, and I can see Nintendo deciding to keep it out of the home version. Kiddies can't shoot dogs, much like they can't put hamsters in microwaves.
I can! But only because I bought the NES Maniac Mansion the week it came out, knowing that only the 1st-pressing to hit store shelves had that feature's ommission overlooked. The clerk at Toys 'R Us must've thought i was nuts, there with my dad, asking if he knew if this was in fact "the version where you can still kill the hamster".
When I first saw Cynthia Rothrock, blonde Hong Kong action star, I went "Holy crap, it's an ass-kicking Kate Monday!"
I used to have a season or two of episodes in terrible Real format. But it was worth it to see Yeardley Smith as "Jane Rice-Burroughs", the gorilla keeper at the zoo.
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Date: 2006-04-28 02:28 pm (UTC)CURSE YOU, 8-BIT DOG!!!
Date: 2006-04-28 02:53 pm (UTC)It resulted in an instant game-over no matter how many "lives" remained. The dog would come out onscreen in a cast and crutches, holding up a GenmaSaotome-like sign saying "OUCH! Shoot the ducks, not me!"
Re: CURSE YOU, 8-BIT DOG!!!
Date: 2006-04-28 04:18 pm (UTC)But I can totally see the dog doing that, and I can see Nintendo deciding to keep it out of the home version. Kiddies can't shoot dogs, much like they can't put hamsters in microwaves.
Re: CURSE YOU, 8-BIT DOG!!!
Date: 2006-04-28 04:34 pm (UTC)Re: CURSE YOU, 8-BIT DOG!!!
Date: 2006-04-28 04:35 pm (UTC)I thought for a brief second that that was actually Captain Janeway's government character from "Remo Williams".
Re: CURSE YOU, 8-BIT DOG!!!
Date: 2006-04-28 07:13 pm (UTC)I used to have a season or two of episodes in terrible Real format. But it was worth it to see Yeardley Smith as "Jane Rice-Burroughs", the gorilla keeper at the zoo.