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The secret second player in Duck Hunt

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Thirty years later, you finally realize why those 8-bit mallards were so good at dodging your plastic gun. In the original NES version of Duck Hunt, plug a standard controller into port two, and a second player can completely control the duck's flight path. Countless older siblings secretly trolled their younger brothers using this exact method while pretending the game was just incredibly hard.

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