Masayuki Uemura commander-in-chief of the detachment Nintendo Research & Development (R&D) in the 70s-80s In the last century, he died at the age of 78. Uemura was one of the driving forces of the Japanese concern Nintendo at a time when the electronic entertainment industry was just in its infancy. He played a key role in achieving success by such popular devices as, among others Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) or his successor Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).
Uemura joined the Nintendo in 1972, working with industry visionaries such as Gunpei Yokoi if Genyo Takeda. The aforementioned trio undertook the mission of developing a system of games cooperating with replicas of weapons for municipal playrooms. In 1973, they launched a project known to this day as Laser Clay Shooting Systemwhich involves shooting clay targets with an infrared beam.
A year later, the device was updated – the project was named Mini Laser Clay – it was a cheaper edition, which was mainly equipped with arcades, the biggest modification was the replacement of real targets fired from cannons by objects displayed by a projector. It is safe to say that there was a great predecessor of a gun-shaped controller Zapper Gunwhich most modern gamers remember well from the annoying sessions in Duck Hunt on the platform NES or its Polish version Pegasus.