In Reply to: VIDEO GAME GUN posted by BFT on November 26, 2001 at 07:26:54:
Those guns work by measuring how long it takes the TV's electron beam to get from the upper-left corner of the screen to wherever you're pointing the gun. The game machine knows when the TV starts to draw the image, and then it waits for the flash of brightness to enter the muzzle of the gun as the beam crosses the screen in front of it.
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- It doesn't transmit anything - GMan 19:11:54 12/04/01 (0)