* DuelingGames: With Creator/{{Sega}}'s ''Safari Hunt'' on the Master System.
* EarlyBirdRelease: The ''Vs. Duck Hunt'' cabinet was released in the United States in April 1984, more a year before the American launch of the Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem. In fact, the game's popularity in arcades is what convinced Nintendo to make it a pack-in game for the NES.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The game exists in part to give the Zapper a reason to exist, to convince US toy chains still smarting from MediaNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 that the NES was something ''different'' that they had to have.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Aside from emulation, the game was never available outside its original cartridge form for nearly 30 years. However, in November of 2014, it was re-released on the Wii U's Virtual Console; but the Wii U eShop shut down in March 2023, making the game legally-unavailable once more.
* KillerApp: It sold 28 million copies when it was released on the NES. This greatly secured the popularity of the Zapper, and made the game stand toe-to-toe with the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' trilogy (it outsold ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' and ''3'', thus being only outsold by the first game).
* ReferencedBy:
** The dog appears in ''Film/{{Pixels}}'' as one of the trophies awarded to the Earthlings. After doing his signature laugh at the apartment window of the old woman who distracted [[VideoGame/{{Centipede}} the Centipede]], he immediately befriends her.
** There are a few references to ''Duck Hunt'' in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' - a picture of one of the ducks appears in Punch-Out Pizza, a stylized painting of the ''Duck Hunt'' dog appears in the Mario Bros.' clients' house, and a restaurant called Chasse au Canard ([[BilingualBonus "Duck Hunt" in French]]) can be seen in Brooklyn.
** The ducks make a cameo in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'' as a trophy. The promotional Special Movie plays with the trophy by panning the screen to make it look like they're flying past the centering reticle.
* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Being able to shoot the dog.
** This is actually possible in the bonus stage of the arcade version, ''[[https://youtu.be/Qtf1FUp-0jo?t=115 Vs. Duck Hunt]]'', where the dog leaps about as a distraction while flushing out the ducks.
** Naturally, it is also possible in {{Fan Remake}}s and parodies, like Website/IMockery's [[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/duckhunt/default.php version]].
** The dog can also be shot in the game ''Barker Bill's Trick Shooting'', but doing so accrues a penalty. Some would consider the penalty WorthIt.
** And if you can't get to any of that stuff, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkEeYCnTHjU give this song a listen]].
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