One of the fondest memories of my childhood is playing Duck Hunt on the original Nintendo 8 bit system when I used to be a kid way back in the 1980s! My friends and I use to sit around and play duck hunting games and shoot thousands of ducks.
We really had a ton of fun with a small gray plastic light gun that you would point at the screen.
This toy gun had a built in laser for shooting ducks on our console TV.
Nintendo games and video games in general have really developed into something spectacular since first being introduced in the 1970s.
The first system our family got was an Atari and I thought that was cool back then.
Then we got the Nintendo and were blown away by duck hunting games and Super Mario Brothers.
I am amazed by the videos games that are around today.
I see graphics that are nearly lifelike, with absolutely incredible 3D perspectives and scenes.
The most popular games in this area are first person shooter games.
However, these types of games have a lot more action and violence than the old school duck hunting games I grew up with.
I walked into a local video arcade last week and was shocked to see how expensive it is to play a video game for only a few minutes.
These games are very complicated and I am sure they must cost several thousand dollars.
Modern day video arcade games make duck hunting games and other types of games I grew up with look completely ancient.
I have not found a video arcade in the area that still has duck hunting games like they use to have back in the 1990s.
Most arcades would probably go out of business by having games like that with such primitive graphics.
People today want to play the ultra violent first person shooter games where there is a lot of blood and gore.
All video games are so addictive and essentially a big waste of time.
The problem is, once you start playing, it is hard to quit.
In fact, when I was a child, I even rode my bike about 4 miles to the largest video arcade in the city, just to go play games for few hours.
It would really be nice to find a casual and laid back video arcade in the area with the kind of classic and low key video games that I grew up with.
Playing silly duck hunting games on Nintendo, or even combat on Atari, was fun for hours when I was young.