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Bug Bat Swats Flies With Endless Love, Electricity

The scenario has happened countless times before. A pesky fly interrupts a dinner party. Brad, the club's resident tennis pro and notorious alcoholic, takes to his feet, Prince racket in hand, and smites the beast violently into a wall with a few tottering swings. OK, so it doesn't happen exactly like that, but you get the idea. Fly swatter, tennis racket or bare hands, the end result is the same. Boring. Enter the misnamed, but nevertheless brilliant, Bug Bat.
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10:00 PM on Sun May 11 2008
By Jack Loftus
5,757 views, 47 comments

Latest by Hanael: ah. poor man's taser. more »

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DIY Duck Hunt Lamp Still Has That Blasted Laughing Dog

When I look at the classic Nintendo Zapper I think of my younger days as a screaming, hot-headed 8-bit gamer, but not Fluffypants. No siree. The enterprising DIY lamp artist looked at the orange and gray plastic and saw a lamp. A few hours and one fabricated cardboard NES cartridge stand later, that laughing dog was back in action, ready to haunt my dreams once again. If this model played the level intro music I'd be tempted to break out the glue gun, but for now I'll just marvel at its brilliance from afar. [Craftster via Boing Boing Gadgets]

4:00 PM on Sun May 11 2008
By Jack Loftus
4,163 views, 12 comments

Latest by Rabid Penguin: Fun game, fugly lamp. more »

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Kalashnikov AK-47 Converted into Wiimote

Now you can convert your very own AK-47 and feel like a Soviet soldier while killing crazy bunnies and Zelda goblins. It may not be as cool as firing a bazooka in a 360-degree environment, but it definitely beats the Nintendo Wii Zapper. We talked with its creator about all the details: More »

9:50 AM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Jesus Diaz
10,806 views, 9 comments

gaming

Lego Zapper Mod: Everything You Love About Guns, Gaming and Legos

It doesn't look like it would be all that comfortable to wield, but we are talking about a Lego zapper mod here —so who really cares. It may not be as comfortable as commercial zappers, but the thing to keep in mind is that it works. And by the looks of things it probably won't be all that difficult to pull off yourself. [Neogaf Forum via GoNintendo via Kotaku]

8:20 PM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By Sean Fallon
3,203 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: @Taime: i'm going to quote a song of a wonderful (passed on) under received artist; Matt Osborne's "A Ten-Year-Old Boy Playing Lego in the Basement": Don't you hate it when pieces won't fit And the symmetry is upset Mismatching colours and mistaken lines Don't more »

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Wii Zapper Hands On (Verdict: Shoot From the Hip)

Nintendo's gun peripheral has a slot for your Wiimote, and comes with Link's Crossbow training. It's no duck hunt, but it's really fun. The Good: High build quality, battery-less design, fairly accurate, Tommy-gun design of the Wii Zapper makes me feel like Wii Capone. Inexpensive, since it doesn't introduce electrics, depending on the Wiimote's exisiting buttons. Fun would be an understatement. More »

5:27 PM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By Brian Lam
11,909 views, 15 comments

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Wii Zapper Box Makes Us a Little Excited

Our extended family at Kotaku just dropped this image of the Wii Zapper's official box. Sure, the cardboard antics will not get you wet in your nether regions, but the bundled Link Crossbow Training mini game extra and all its confirmed zappy goodness just might. The game will involve three different set player modes including; Target Shooting, a shooting gallery adventure, Defender, where you remain stationary and are subject to onslaught from the horrible orks and other assorted baddies and the final game, called Ranger, which will allow you to wander about and just go nuts. Kotaku have the full press release, so hit up the link to check it out. [Kotaku]

6:00 PM on Sat Sep 22 2007
By Haroon Malik
10,043 views, 26 comments

Latest by Cheddies: Finally, when the lightgun games start coming out i can play them on my projector *YAY* more »

parenting to the max

Parents Think Wii Zapper Might As Well Come With an NRA Application

NJ.com, your source for "everything Jersey" asked people what they thought of the "gun-like" Wii Zapper in their weekly Question of the, um, Week segment. The responses poured in and they were extremely negative. The catch, though, is that the site had originally posted a picture of a gun other than the Wii Zapper, which let's face it, looks more Star Trek than NRA. Check the outrage after the jump. More »

5:40 AM on Fri Sep 14 2007
By Matt Buchanan
5,764 views, 33 comments

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Hands-on Wii Zapper Assembly Video

Ashcraft and Crecente from Kotaku got a hands-on demonstration with the Wii Zapper. The video shows how you put the thing together—a combination of the Nunchuck and the Wiimote—but it also shows Ashcraft demonstrationg his acting chops. The Zapper is actually kind of uncomfortable, seeing as the two grips that you put your hands on are a bit close. It's like holding a Tommy gun, except possibly even more awkward. What's also weird is that the trigger was in the front, and not the back as you'd expect. [Kotaku]

7:57 PM on Fri Jul 13 2007
By Jason Chen
11,162 views, 11 comments

Latest by conformco: With the zapper & GH3 controller - wondering if it'll accommodate controllers that have been 'converted' to rechargeable, like the Nyko remote chargers? They're a bit thicker with the grippy battery cover. It would kinda suck to have more »

nintendo

Nintendo Wii Zapper, Mario Kart Wheel On The Way

The Wii Zapper is a piece of plastic that holds the Wii's Wiimote and nunchuk together like a gun, for shooting games. $20 bucks with software. There's a wheel coming for Mario Kart, too. More »

12:41 PM on Wed Jul 11 2007
By Brian Lam
16,914 views, 46 comments

home entertainment

Wii Zapper Coming May 1st

Nintendo is bringing its Zapper days back. The folks at Gamestop have just added the Wii Blaster to their Wii arsenal, claiming it'll ship on the 1st of May for $20. Couple it with a few Virtual Console games like Hogan's Alley, Gumshoe, or Duck Hunt and it's 8-bit nirvana all over again. Now all I have to do is, er, find a Wii. – Louis Ramirez More »

4:20 PM on Fri Apr 6 2007
By Louis Ramirez
5,126 views, 15 comments

gadgets

E3 2006: Wii Peripherals And Hands-On Gameplay Impressions

One of the first things Team Giztaku spotted at Nintendo's booth at E3 this morning was the Wii Zapper, under glass in the peripherals case—no Duck Hunt announcement sadly, and there weren't any games on the floor using it, but we were still pretty excited to see it regardless. The first two games we got to play were Twilight Princess and Super Mario Galaxy; you can check out hands-on impressions of the Wii Nunchuk-style gameplay for both games over on Kotaku. More »

6:04 PM on Wed May 10 2006
By gizmodo.com
4,162 views, 5 comments

Latest by Mpotiker: Something to keep cheney away from... more »

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