Dog (Duck Hunt)

The Dog in Duck Hunt for the Nintendo Entertainment System is an infamous character. In the game, he would emerge from the grass and laugh at the player if they failed to shoot any of the ducks that appeared during the round. If the player did shoot a duck, the dog would also emerge with the duck in his hands. In the beginning of each game, the dog will appear from the left of the screen and start sniffing the ground, jumping in the grass to hide only a couple seconds later. Some players have thought that the dog can actually be shot when nit laughs at the player, though this is not possible in the console version of the game. In arcade title, however, during the bonus round the player can actually shoot the dog, which will consequently cover his face in gun powder. Doing so will end the round. After shooting the dog, he'll get mad at the player while walking on crutches, telling him or to "shoot the ducks" instead of him.

Legacy
The dog has become a sort of icon of the game due to him laughing at the player whenever they fail to shoot a duck. Despite the fact that you can shoot the dog in the VS. arcade version of Duck Hunt, unofficial titles have been released on the internet that are typically more graphical and often result in the dog dying rather than just a face full of gunpowder. In the NES game Barker Bill's Trick Shooting by Nintendo, the Dog from Duck Hunt makes an appearance and in this game you can actually shoot him like you can in the VS. arcade title. In WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! and WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$! for the Game Boy Advance and GameCube, there is a Duck Hunt microgame in which the dog appears. In Tetris DS for the Nintendo DS, one of the stages is based on Duck Hunt, and the dog appears here too.