Zapper Light Gun Mod

You know you've become an NES nut when you start modifying accessories; as I have done with the Zapper. Please note that this DIY project is different from the previous ones when it comes to the number of possibilities. The steps below are the ones I personally taken when modding the gun, however you can add/take out steps as you wish. Remember this is simply a start to modding. Your only limitation is your imagination.

Since we're strong-willed manly men (or womanly women), it would be fitting to start out by digging into the guts of the accessory: [note: optional]

First let's remove the gray plastic Nintendo covering by using a medium-sized phillips screwdriver to remove them.

Next, remove the screws around the orange, again, with the phillips. To take off the two smaller screws at the tip of the gun, use a small flatheaded screwdriver. [You may have to "break in" the actual slits, but it shouldn't be a problem since there are should actually be very small slits there anyway.]

Feeling dorky? I know I am! Look at the pretty shiny things and the thingamabobs all over the place!

Just a little FYI in this DIY, when you pull the trigger when playing a light-gun compatible game the screen momentarily turns white and the phototransistor in the gun's barrel sends light onto the screen. Then, when the screen is blank, whether you have correctly aimed on a target (in the case of Duck Hunt, a duck) determines if the game pak will react in your success with the alignment of the sight.

You can remove the dark-gray covering with a phillips to see the inner-inner parts of the device. Just be careful of the large spring shown on the mid-right of picture #2. If you pull the trigger while the case is open, it will fly right out and could put your eye out.

So the novelty has worn out, you want to do some modding now. Well, this is where that "your only limitation is your imagination" thing comes in. I will explain how I modded my own gun, and hopefully you might become inspired yourself.

Nerf^® Lock 'n Load^™

Nerf has given me many great times with my friends when I was younger and still now today--even if some of those Nerf wars got a bit out of hand. (Jason: Sorry 'bout the lamps, table, and chairs, bro!) Last year I tried doing 'some other kind of modding' with my Lock 'n Load gun (Nerf heads know what I mean--tried to make it more painful). Unfortunately that experience did not turn out so well and I lost one of the springs for this now- discontinued toy model. Oh well. So what I did was I took off the yellow top part of the LnL (similar to what we did above with the gray part of the Zapper). [If you have not yet removed the original gray part of the Zapper, do so now.]

<--- This is what we're talking about right here. I simply unscrewed (phillips) it from the LnL.

<--- Now align one side on one of the Zapper's sides and the other LnL side with its opposite. Meet up the two sides together and screw them both together.

<--- Our best friend with doing anything involving mods is duct tape. Don't be afraid to use it! Tape up the top end of the LnL's shell to the Zapper till it feels snug.

Now let's add some more use to the gun! There is an actual opening on the LnL's shell (look at the picture) that would be perfect for a laser pointer for accurate duck-huntin' goodness. You know what to do! Tape!

RESULT

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