Which NES zapper is your favorite?
Re: Which NES zapper is your favorite?
I know the orange was the original color, and I usually like to get whatever the original form of something was, but I always liked the grey Zapper. I didn't have NES back when it was new. When I finally got mine, I got it with a grey Zapper. So to me, I guess, the grey Zapper is the original.
Re: Which NES zapper is your favorite?
Yeah. I figured as much after watching the video. Still a neat little accessory though. But I guess I'll just have to be satisfied with my gray and orange zapperso.pwuaioc wrote:Japan only. They had to change it for everywhere else.Michi wrote:vlame wrote:famicom 6 shooter!
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Re: Which NES zapper is your favorite?
I thought the gray was original, and the orange was made after some outrage about kids and guns or some such nonsense.Ziggy587 wrote:I know the orange was the original color, and I usually like to get whatever the original form of something was, but I always liked the grey Zapper. I didn't have NES back when it was new. When I finally got mine, I got it with a grey Zapper. So to me, I guess, the grey Zapper is the original.
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Re: Which NES zapper is your favorite?
Correct. We had the realistic Megatron P-38, the black Sega Light Phaser, and the gray Zapper. After the legislation that toy guns needed to not look realistic and have bright orange tips or flourescent colors Megatron became a tank, the Phaser went away, and the Zapper turned orange.o.pwuaioc wrote:I thought the gray was original, and the orange was made after some outrage about kids and guns or some such nonsense.Ziggy587 wrote:I know the orange was the original color, and I usually like to get whatever the original form of something was, but I always liked the grey Zapper. I didn't have NES back when it was new. When I finally got mine, I got it with a grey Zapper. So to me, I guess, the grey Zapper is the original.
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Ah, I win then! I always thought the orange one was the original one, then they changed it to grey because it looked retarded. I guess some one told me long ago that the orange was the original, and I was never corrected until now.
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Wait. Realistic P38? The chrome plating everywhere and the lack of spring-firing pellets?Hobie-wan wrote:Correct. We had the realistic Megatron P-38, the black Sega Light Phaser, and the gray Zapper. After the legislation that toy guns needed to not look realistic and have bright orange tips or flourescent colors Megatron became a tank, the Phaser went away, and the Zapper turned orange.
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Re: Which NES zapper is your favorite?
They both look cool. The orange one is the one I remember from when I was younger, but they both look good. Ideally you would have one of each. One for each hand. 
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Re: Which NES zapper is your favorite?
I'm so glad I didn't have the orange one and so am not nostalgically inclined to like it. 
Re: Which NES zapper is your favorite?
The orange one, because that's the one that came with my original NES Action Set.

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I have the orange one, but I think the grey version looks super classy.

