Duck Hunt lamp will inspire thousands to hunt for cheap Zappers

by JC Fletcher { May 4th 2008 at 12:00PM }

One reason that the NES Zapper, even in orange, is superior to the Wii Zapper: it makes an attractive lamp. Craftster user fluffypants happened upon one of the clangy gun controllers and, somehow, saw the potential for a lamp. A real Duck Hunt cartridge would have been too small to function as a sturdy base, so she made an imitation NES cartridge from cardboard and affixed it to the Zapper lamp.

As if turning controllers into furniture didn't impress us enough, fluffypants turned a store-bought shade into a faithful 3D Duck Hunt scene with layers of cut foam. In fact, the shade is so awesomely Duck Hunt that the actual lamp seems a bit like overkill.

Tags: crafts, duck-hunt, lamp, nes, zapper

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

xeleion @ May 4th 2008 12:57PM

That's pretty impressive, but I agree: once you make an awesome lamp shade like that, the rest of is almost seems excessive. Still good work tho.

Perverted @ May 4th 2008 1:49PM

It looks so bbbbaaaaaddd but I still want one :(
Is it's so bad it's good? or is it the fact it seems wrong that makes it good?
That would probably trick a great many a people.
Oh and the lamp shade is kinda awesome(ok really awesome).

mykie @ May 4th 2008 3:08PM

It would be even better if the trigger turned the lamp on and off.

Otherwise awesome, I'm just sayin'.

hvnlysoldr @ May 4th 2008 4:40PM

That should replace the ugly leg lamp from A Christmas Story.

Fluffypants @ May 8th 2008 2:18PM

Hey, that's my lamp! :D
Heh, I know what you mean about it seeming a little overkill, but the shade was actually the last thing I made (a last minute brainstorm came to me the night before I left town, so I was cutting pixels for hours on end!)
I wish the trigger turned the lamp on and off, but there wasn't enough room in there to fit a little sensor pad thing.... to leave the trigger functioning, there was no way (that I could find, anyway) to get it to turn the lamp on and off. Sigh!