Hunting games online are especially programmed to provide the spine-tingling experience of hunting all forms of animals like deer, mountain goats, sea ducks, turkeys, foxes, bears, and big game for those who unskilled to hunt animals in their real life as well as for those who are a skilled hunters. Duck Hunt is one of the earliest hunting games made for the Nintendo game system.

The advent of Hunting Game onto the market brought about much debate and controversy among hunting enthusiasts as well as animal rights activists. Those who enjoyed hunting in the "real world" found these new games exciting and found the games as a great way to be able to hunt animals they might never be able to do in real life such as bears and moose. Even the non hunters also found these online hunting games very entertaining as these games gave the pleasure of hunting experience in the real world. But sadly on the other hand, animal rights activists displayed their flurry over these games with their own logics that says that these hunting games is just another way to harm the animal population, favoring violence against them even though the animals were just a bunch of coding made up by a software programmer