10 Useless Video Game Sidekicks Who Never Had Your Back
2. Dog - Duck Hunt
If you grew up in the 1980s and owned a NES, chances are you have a bit of a superiority complex. Maybe you're an overachiever. A real go-getter who always seems capable of one-upping your competition. That is until you fail – then some niggling feeling from deep inside the recesses of your subconscious begins to mock you. Any failure, no matter how small, takes you back to a long forgotten memory in your childhood.
One you'd thought you'd left behind in your parents' living room and were hoping to never have to revisit...
That damned Dog is laughing at you again.
Time and again voted as the most annoying video game character of all time, the Dog from Duck Hunt was designed to be the perfect companion. When you shot the ducks, he would retrieve them for you. When you missed, he would mock you, spurring you on to do better.
In reality, Dog is responsible for a generation of gamers that responded to his mocking tears by throwing their controllers through the television screen.