Super Scope 6 - Blastris A (Actual SNES Capture)

This is a capture of me playing the Blastris A game mode in Super Scope 6 for the SNES. This is not an emulator. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Super Scope 6 cartridge and the Super Scope light gun.

Back around 1997 or so I borrowed the Super Scope from my friend Drew and managed to play the pack-in cartridge, Super Scope 6, a bunch. I thought the game and the peripheral were fun, but I didn't get to play any other Super Scope games.

In 2011 I finally picked up my own complete Super Scope bundle off ebay and started acquiring some various light gun games that I had missed out on. Super Scope 6 was still as fun as I remembered, and it was still as challenging too.

Blastris A is like a sideways game of Tetris, except you shoot individual squares off the falling pieces to make them fit. After you complete five lines you simply move on to the next level, and the levels continue endlessly. Unfortunately, this is the most boring game of the bunch. I started on high and made it to level 25 before getting a game over.

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.

The Super Scope requires a CRT TV to function, and since the Hauppauge only outputs to the TV using component video (a format not supported on my old CRT TV), I used my distribution amplifier to split the SNES's audio/video signal and send one set of cables to the CRT TV while sending the other set of cables to the DVD Recorder/Hauppauge HD PVR combo.