Laserscope

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The Konami LaserScope is a head-mounted lightgun with a microphone and a crosshair that covered one eye. It was an officially licensed product for the NES/Famicom video game console. Konami originally released the peripheral in 1990, in Japan for the Famicom under the name Gun Sight. The Laser Scope retailed for $39.99(USD) and was manufactured specifically for one Konami game, Laser Invasion, which included a $5(USD) coupon for the LaserScope. The device met very limited commercial success.

With the device firmly affixed to your head, you had merely to shout "fire!" into the microphone to fire a shot at the on-screen object aimed at via the headset's crosshair. However, microphone technology was poor; saying almost anything else would cause the controller to react. The Laserscope had built-in headphones that a person would connect to the NES audio port for the video game sounds.

[edit] Supported Games

• All games supported for the NES Zapper

[edit] External links

• The Laserscope appears in a Top 10 worst game controllers list

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