Duck Hunt is a title that will throw up many happy memories for gamers of a certain age.
The 1984 Nintendo classic saw players shooting ducks and clay pigeons by aiming a light gun at the screen of their TV and firing.
What many people didn’t realise – even some who spent hours and hours happily shooting away at the screen when they were kids – was that it was actually a two-player game.
Hot tip that’s 25 years late but I didn’t have Twitter back then: in Duck Hunt on Nintendo, the second player controller controlled the duck.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) September 17, 2018
Yes, by plugging a regular controller into your NES alongside the gun, a second player could control the ducks.
Me and my sister found this out because I sat on the controller by accident and the duck kept flying to the top right corner.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) September 17, 2018
Who knew?
Not many people, judging by the reaction on Twitter.
WHAT 🤯
— Brie Larson (@brielarson) September 17, 2018
this is insane… i feel sick…
— Ben Schwartz (@rejectedjokes) September 17, 2018
I…I can feel the dog laughing at me even now
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) September 18, 2018
All you need to do now is travel back in time and impress your childhood friends with this game-changing bit of information.