@scottisokay
i didn't wake up today thinking i'd feel guilty about leaving Pepper and Patch in a dark apartment but here we are
@SeattleFira
I game tested this on the Nintendo 3DS. Initially, the mic's were so hot we had to separate into separate offices to give our dogs commands. For weeks, the office was filled with game testers in cubicles shouting the names of their pets! It was ridiculous <3
@kyoyameganebereznoff
I’ll never forget learning that the little lightbulbs that appear above their heads were treats you could grab and feed to your pups.
@japansace
Okay, tragic backstory time: I LOVED this game growing up. My parents hate pets, so this is the closest thing I got to a dog, and I was OBSESSED. My first ever dog on this game was Pumpkin the pembroke welsh corgi. I loved Pumpkin. I would take a bullet for Pumpkin. I took care of her with the care of a newborn baby for YEARS. Then, one day, I got one of those action replay cheat devices from a GameStop. I was like, "Cool! Now I can unlock all the items I still don't have access to!" So I stuck the device in my DS, applied it to my Nintendogs game, and... It deleted my save. IT KILLED PUMPKIN. I was never the same, man. I had all these cool new items, and for what? What was the point without PUMPKIN?????? I CRIED REAL TEARS. I STILL THINK ABOUT HER ALL THE TIME. Pumpkin was my dear baby girl, and I BETRAYED her, because I was a DUMBASS KID. RIP, Pumpkin. You were the best virtual dog any little girl has ever had. And like this comment if you, also, have been personally victimized by GameStop, in solidarity. EDIT: The overwhelming response to this comment inspired me, and I ended up buying a used copy of Nintendogs on eBay. Now I have a new cocker spaniel named Junie. THE LEGACY LIVES ON.
@beetroten7178
my most distinct memory of this game is letting my (at the time) toddler brother name our brown labrador, and him permanently naming it “Poop”. Poop ended up being the most successful dog we ever had, being basically an athletic prodigy, but I resented the dog for years because of his name. Justice for Poop.
@YMilkshake
Nintendo not making a Nintendogs for the Switch is such a missed opportunity
@robertwild9447
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the time and effort Eddy puts into playing both himself and his "twin" Tony in these videos? His chemistry with himself as two co hosts comes off really natural. He also does a great job with the editing, hair, and make up to make the effect pretty convincing.
@jean14256
“One day your dog went to bed not knowing it’d never wake up again.” To be fair, that’s how real dogs work too.
@starlight4599
Now that you mentioned it.. The most accurate to life thing about this game actually IS meeting other dog owners on your walk, who drop totally unsolicited advice on you and make it their mission to ruin your day! 😂
@angie2932
"lucky, maxwell, daisy!" is something i chant daily
@Aros4
The way Nintendo put so much tender loving care to nintendogs and the DS and never did anything like it again is CRIMINAL. Like you had all these features and on top of that you would be rewarded for playing with others!! You could get the dogs from your friends version of the game if you played with them! The DS was so amazing at letting you connect with others and socialize in a way that no other electronic device has been able to do again and not because they can’t but because they’ve decided to monetize everything.
@DerpedCrusader
My man's doesn't know you can give the lightbulb to the dog as a treat after they perform a trick
@kaninbun
my memory of this game consists of me sitting in the back seat of my grandparents car screaming “lucky” into the ds microphone with no luck bc it couldn’t understand me until my grandparents got so annoyed they snatched the ds from me
@mdg245
I got really obsessed with becoming the best at the obedience trials. I found strats online where instead of using the similarly sounding sit/stand you used one/two and kept adding new tricks as a number, skipping seven for sounding like six. This was purely to get around how bad the DS mic was at understanding what was said.
@cuddr710
"one day your nintendog went to bed not knowing they wouldn't wake up again" - this hurt my soul
@viviatwilight
what a throwback to people shipping ted and archie from this game on tumblr
@Lonewolfwondering
Finding out the tamagotchi would be $30 today is actually insane
@flammentouche
the fun thing is that you could "feed" the dog the light bulb when teaching them a trick so that the dog would learn faster
@gartgart4757
You guys were joking but the guilt I knew I would feel for one day abandoning a virtual dog is the exact reason I never got one.
@roxou493