Nintendogs (and other weird Nintendo DS games)

[Pissmaster]

Okay, so this game with eleven million versions came out about nineteen years ago, so I know some of you literal babbies who can't remember 9/11 grew up with it. It was the hottest shit in the world when it was new, but for those of us who were already big strong men at the time, it just looked like yet another virtual pet thing.

My question is, was there actually something else there? Was it actually a good game? For as popular as it was, I never hear about it anymore, not even in jokes. And come to think of it, I don't think I heard much about it in the 2010s, either. Even Nintendogs + Cats seemed to just come and go. But, I know it sold really, really well, and Nintendo even gave it a lot of representation in Smash. So... how about it? What do you remember about Nintendogs?

 

[The Last Stand]

What, no love for the version with @Cats?

I assume the multiple versions of Nintendogs are identical, other than the different breeds being accessible.

 

[Londo]

Unironically I loved Nintendogs.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Women seemed to love it. In college I was approached by a couple women when I was playing my DS between classes. They asked if I had Nintendos, and when I said I didn't, they lost interest.

I suspect that between Nintendogs and Brain Age, the DS had broad appeal outside of regular gamers.

The DS had some weird games on it though. I remember The Sims 2 being an animal crossing type thing where you use water guns to fend off an alien invasion. And Trauma Centre where you did operations on people.

 

[Brain Power]

My ds lite came bundled with the best friends edition. Back then my english was horrendous and nothing I said was recognized by the puppies, so I couldn't progress the part where you teached them voice commands until years later, when my english got better.

 

[Checkerboard Hero]

And Trauma Centre where you did operations on people.

I miss that YT meme using that infamous track from the game, that's some old ass YT right there.

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[The Last Stand]

I could not handle a game like this. You'd have a virtual puppy, play with it for a time, then you move on to other games. The next time you turn it on, the dog is filthy but still alive. I'd feel bad after that point.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I could not handle a game like this. You'd have a virtual puppy, play with it for a time, then you move on to other games. The next time you turn it on, the dog is filthy but still alive. I'd feel bad after that point.

I'm sure it's because I watched too much media about semi-sentient computer things, but yeah, this always put me off of all virtual pets

 

[Cat tit bingo]

I had Dachshund & Friends and played the fuck out of it. I would always go for a husky since my family had a real one at the time. I remember having to plotting my walk route, pulling the dig away from shit and getting so excited seeing my virtual pooch bring me a present.
Like most virtual pets it's content light but the slow progression of grooming, walking, and training would really hook yea. If you ever got the outer space house you where a certified big dick G and every kid was jealous.

I could not handle a game like this. You'd have a virtual puppy, play with it for a time, then you move on to other games. The next time you turn it on, the dog is filthy but still alive. I'd feel bad after that point.

Eventually your dog will genuinely just run away, it will come back but as a kid who didn't know that it was heart breaking.

 

[Rololowlo]

The DS had some weird games on it though. I remember The Sims 2 being an Animal Crossing type thing where you use water guns to fend off an alien invasion.

The Sims on GBA and DS were spin-off RPG-lite/adventure games with an actual storyline and dialogues. They were not terribly good but there was an effort to make them interesting.

Nintendogs was just a Tamagoshi, the kind of gimmicky, barebone, borderline proof-of-concept release that should rather have been a minigame in a larger game. In fact, something like Animal.Crossing would be a perfect candidate.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

this game with eleven million versions came out about nineteen years ago

I remember buying one of my nephews a DS & Petz Monkeyz House but I don't think I ever played or saw Nintendogs in particular.

 

[TheRetardKing]

You want a weird DS game?
Spanish for Everyone is about a kid getting his DS back from Mexican drug traffickers.

 

[I'm Really Feeling It]

I remember Nintendogs being a thing when I had a 3DS (time fucking flies man) and engaged in discussions of DS/3DS games. Kind of wanted one, but being a minor meant I couldn't justify it to my parents. I would've played the shit out of it I think. I love dogs.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

You want weird DS games?
Spanish for Everyone is about a kid getting his DS back from Mexican drug traffickers.

to be fair, that's probably the most useful spanish a DS owner could learn

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

I got this as a part of an R4 100 in 1 cartridge. Never really played it much was too preoccupied with chinatown wars. From what I remember it was too similar to Kinectimals mixed with all the animal sim games I used to play as a child, particularly one called 101 dino pets. Whats funny to me is that people complain about remakes now when the GBA NES collection and Namco Museum which were obvious trash came out in 2004. The only good thing of the GBA NES collection was it allowed westerners to play the mysterious murasame castle.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

I remember the web site albino black sheep leaking Nintendogs and people thought the leaks were fake because Nintendo DS graphics looked too good to be real.

 

[herefortheactualthreads]

i love nintendogs. played the fuck out of it back in the day.

the nintendogs + catz version is more of a gimmick because you cant really do anything with the cat besides feeding and petting it. it crawls up your shelves and lays on inconvenient places which is cute.

 

[Executive Petrel]

I played my cousins Nintendogs game for like five minutes. It was boring, you could basically do three things to the dogs (wash, feed and something else) and play with them like in the newer pokemon games where you can pet and feed your uncanny 3D models.

She also had a horse game that was surprisingly good.

Never really played it much was too preoccupied with chinatown wars.

Underrated GTA, underrated DS game.

 

[The Evil Midnight Bomber]

Nintendögs is the type of "game" that attracts exactly the kind of people that should be gatekept from playing videogames.

 

[herefortheactualthreads]

Nintendögs is the type of "game" that attracts exactly the kind of people that should be gatekept from playing videogames.

are you sure?