Duck Hunt was a very popular Nintendo game in the 1980’s.  It was actually packaged as one of the first games released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).  Three decades later, Lawl Mart created it for the iPhone, but Nintedo was not too happy about that.  This is why the video game console company sent a take-down notice to have it removed from the iTunes App Store.  Nintendo claimed copyright infringement.

The game was added to the iTunes App Store in January and was available for 99 cents.  The game look and felt just like the original game.  The original game required a Zapper peripheral fake gun.  The game features ducks that you have to shoot, coming in one-two-or-three at a time.  If you didn’t shoot the ducks in time, they would fly away and you would miss out on necessary points to advance to the next level.  The dog would even laugh in your face if you missed.  But if you hit the bird, the dog would smile and hold the duck up by the neck as seen in the image above.

Lucas Mansfield was the developer of the game at Lawl Mart.  The game had the same sounds and music from the original game.  “It’s an unfortunate situation, but I do understand Nintendo’s position,” stated Mansfield.  Mansfield intends on releasing a similar game that isn’t a direct rip-off of the original.