8‑bit NES versus HDTV

A few months ago I shelled out for a flat-screen LCD. It is more ener­gy effi­cient than my old CRT and much nicer for watch­ing movies, which is almost all that we use it for. We also use it to play games on my orig­i­nal NES. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, as I just recent­ly dis­cov­ered, I can’t use the light gun with this TV. Hogan’s Alley and Duck Hunt don’t work, because the LCD screen isn’t made of glass, and there­fore won’t reflect the light back into the gun in such a way that my NES can fig­ure out if I shot the duck or not. Alas.

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