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Post by scipioafricanus on Mar 11, 2018 21:56:21 GMT
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Post by stratogustav on Mar 11, 2018 23:14:27 GMT
First time I hear about this one. The Super Nintendo was used by the military complex to train its army soldiers for deadly combat in the middle of the Golf War!
Man, if this doesn't convince people of the power of the Super Nintendo I don't know what will. What a share, thanks for this juicy bit of information.
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Post by dschult3 on Mar 12, 2018 0:28:32 GMT
I have only heard about this legendary story. I would love to have this in my collection, but the price is insane! While you were practicing with this, we used something different in the Marines. The kick on the M16 A-2 rigs with the M203 was comical at best. What was it like using this? |
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Post by scipioafricanus on Mar 12, 2018 1:16:26 GMT
I have only heard about this legendary story. I would love to have this in my collection, but the price is insane! While you were practicing with this, we used something different in the Marines. The kick on the M16 A-2 rigs with the M203 was comical at best. What was it like using this? It got the shot groups right. A better version of shadow boxing... better than not doing anything at all. But kinda like duck-hunt with a rifle light gun. Air rifles were/are more efficient and cheaper training tools. |
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Post by stratogustav on Mar 12, 2018 1:27:11 GMT
It's cool we have info from actual insiders that participated in this Super Nintendo powered training program. You guys. Awesome stuff!
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Post by dschult3 on Mar 13, 2018 22:48:59 GMT
I have only heard about this legendary story. I would love to have this in my collection, but the price is insane! While you were practicing with this, we used something different in the Marines. The kick on the M16 A-2 rigs with the M203 was comical at best. What was it like using this? It got the shot groups right. A better version of shadow boxing... better than not doing anything at all. But kinda like duck-hunt with a rifle light gun. Air rifles were/are more efficient and cheaper training tools. I find this very interesting. How far away from the TV were you? The sims we used were in a building with a huge movie screen. We could get a platoon in, and we would fire M203s and I want to say TOW missiles. Stingers were done in a different place altogether. Anyways, the training gave us a good feel for what it was like to use them, but the accuracy seemed off. This Super Nintendo sim looks more accurate. I hated the lack of actual kick, though. It felt like it was more of a toy. By the way, do you have any clue as to why they used the 10 round mag? I never saw those used in the Marines. |
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Post by scipioafricanus on Mar 14, 2018 10:46:45 GMT
It got the shot groups right. A better version of shadow boxing... better than not doing anything at all. But kinda like duck-hunt with a rifle light gun. Air rifles were/are more efficient and cheaper training tools. I find this very interesting. How far away from the TV were you? The sims we used were in a building with a huge movie screen. We could get a platoon in, and we would fire M203s and I want to say TOW missiles. Stingers were done in a different place altogether. Anyways, the training gave us a good feel for what it was like to use them, but the accuracy seemed off. This Super Nintendo sim looks more accurate. I hated the lack of actual kick, though. It felt like it was more of a toy. By the way, do you have any clue as to why they used the 10 round mag? I never saw those used in the Marines. They were twenty round magazines. We were still taught that using the thirty round mag as a bi-pod would cause malfunctions so this would allow everyone to work prone with that issue. It was like 6-10 ft away from the screen. |
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Post by scipioafricanus on Jun 30, 2020 22:45:45 GMT
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Post by stratogustav on Jul 1, 2020 22:36:54 GMT
Such an amazing story.
A similar thing happened with the PS3 where the army used PS3 consoles to build some kind of matrix super computer.
Pretty awesome stuff.
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Post by scipioafricanus on Sept 11, 2021 15:36:30 GMT
And you can get one... for 9K!
Gun not included.
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Post by stratogustav on Sept 15, 2021 23:47:33 GMT
Sick, what a find.
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Post by dschult3 on Sept 16, 2021 18:09:19 GMT
That price is insane! I love how people think they can make a fortune on eBay with a find like this. Many of these were made, so they weren't rare. It is just a matter of finding where the DoD put them. I wonder if you can play it with a Super Scope, since it doesn't come with the M-16.
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Post by stratogustav on Sept 16, 2021 20:53:16 GMT
Yeah, I have heard people saying they still have the scope, so who knows if it still works. I knew many people with SNES consoles, but the scope I only saw it at the fair/expo.
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Post by scipioafricanus on Sept 17, 2021 0:07:16 GMT
That price is insane! I love how people think they can make a fortune on eBay with a find like this. Many of these were made, so they weren't rare. It is just a matter of finding where the DoD put them. I wonder if you can play it with a Super Scope, since it doesn't come with the M-16. The game should be "easy" to find and buy. The M16 controller on the other hand is the holy grail. |
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Post by centipede on Sept 17, 2021 1:26:39 GMT
That thing is more expensive than palladium!
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