8 Awesome Videos of Animals Playing Video Games

If you guys are at all familiar with the skateboarding bulldog on Youtube , here he is again doing bigger and better tricks on the Tony Hawk skateboarding video game than I have been able to (read: cared enough to) do.

The way he grinds the rail and does a sick 360 in the air (0:44) makes you think his paws are magical, or that he's really a human, trapped in a floppy, adorable little body.

Some dogs are more talented than most of us at things that we invented. I, for one, welcome our new, cuddly, tail-wagging overlords.

Here is a cat. This list is on the internet, so it requires a cat.

*Composes self*

Here's a video of a cute little kitty entranced in a game of Duck Hunt, while completely ignoring the rules. She's like the kids who would handle the joysticks at arcades while the "Insert Coin" banner was flashing across the screen showing everybody that they were CLEARLY not playing, but would still not let you ACTUALLY play for some reason.

By the way she's sitting inches away from the computer screen and grabbing at the images in front of her, you'd almost think she's human. A really dumb, cute human... with a hair growth problem. Come to think of it, they'd have to be kind of a mutant... which is kind of terrifying.

Here is a cat...

Well of course dogs and cats would be good at Wii Tennis. Why wouldn't they be? They've got great hand-eye coordination and they like chasing balls in real life anyway. So, strap their paws to a Wii remote and it's like we're watching the US Open of Domestic Animals. Who needs that horrible, horrible Cats & Dogs movie that looks like it was filmed in the 90s (Hannibal Lecter reference? Really?), when you've got this clash of the Titans.

You can tell the cat is a bit more conniving because she tries distracting her dog competitor with "meows," psyching him out.

And yes, every cat is a female and every dog is a male: NO EXCEPTIONS.

Nintendo DS is so addictive (!) that even apes know not to have their babies play with them for so long. Here's mama ape giving us a pissed-off look as she nonchalantly ignores her kid wanting to play with the DS in her hand. She shrugs him off and slaps his hand when he attempts to grab it from her. Sound familiar?

But here's something Mom has never done to any of (well, most of) us, stick the DS in her mouth while she walks away.

Many are under the assumption that pigs have no real useful abilities other than just running in mud, eating all day and then making us cry when their pet spiders die.

In this video, however, that assumption is proven completely wrong.

Hamlet, a pig (cruelly named after what his dead, cooked, delicious brethren are called) under the observation of animal psychiatrists, has developed joystick operating skills so advanced that some scientists are starting to believe pigs are actually smarter than dogs and that George Clooney and the other potbelly pig owning celebrities had it right.

Hamlet pwns at playing video games designed for chimpanzees while the dog in a similar experiment (also shown in the video) needs significantly more help.