Controlled via a touch screen monitor housed in a fake tree, the games were specially designed by IBM volunteers to provide zoo and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience officials with data on how the primates acquire and implement new behaviors. "Hopefully we can get the animals to find better sources of food more easily," noted Center for Behavioral Neuroscience researcher Elliott Albers.

Makes you wonder about the kind of info game developers could be compiling about players care of those always-on internet connections, huh?

Update: Reports that the subjects preferred playing games on Apex Digital's ApeXtreme console have gone unconfirmed.