You've probably seen pictures before of Beam Gun: Duck Hunt, as in the electronic toy version that Nintendo made back in 1976. It was part of the Beam Gun series that the late, great Gunpei Yokoi designed alongside Sharp engineer Masayuki Uemura, forging the beginnings of a hardware partnership that lasts to this day.

But I doubt you've ever seen a video of the device actually running. It's pretty amazing – it projects the ducks onto the wall, then reads whether or not you've shot them with the light gun. And now you know where the NES game comes from.

Duck Hunt [Japan Games, via Siliconera]