Shooting Range by Bandai - Cover Review

Shooting Range is a light gun game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that uses the NES Zapper. How do I know this? Because the name of the game is Shooting Range and it only makes sense. There's also a picture of a kid holding the NES Zapper right on the cover, front and center. Oh ... and right next to that it actually says, "Light Gun Series." So if you somehow bought this game and didn't own the NES Zapper then you probably don't deserve to own a video game, the concept may just be a little above your head. I'm not sure Bandai could have made this cover any clearer, but I'm sure there were a few kids out there that didn't catch the hint and bought it anyway, since shooting ranges are so popular amongst children.

Beyond the fact that this cover reminds you several times that it is made for the NES Zapper, this is just one box that really makes me mad. For one thing, it's super ugly. That yellow around the edges doesn't go with the dark blue, and the targets look more like something you would see in a 1950s Sci-Fi movie. And from what I can see of the game on the box, it looks like you're shooting aliens, criminals and ... Indians?? I know this was the 1980s, but let's have a little respect for the Native Americans. After all, we already murdered them and took their land, how about we ease up on the virtual killing and virtual taking of their land. The rest of the cover is a mess, especially the kid grasping that gun. Those fingers are so small and boney that it almost looks like an alien holding the Zapper. But it's not, it's just some loser that was tricked into being a hand model for a terrible light gun game.


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