![]() These puppies will stay puppies no matter how long you play though, never running away or dying as Nintendogs is generally a rather lenient pet sim when it comes to what’s asked of the player. Beyond the headlining breeds you can get things like Beagles, German Shepherds, Toy Poodles, Pugs, and Yorkshire Terriers, most of them popular picks although you won’t find anything like a Rottweiler or Bulldog among their ranks. ![]() In total there are 19 available dog breeds with some differentiation in the color and patterns of their coats as well, the Dalmatian a special unlockable in most versions but the default breeds include many of the expected types of dogs. Through playing the game you will eventually unlock the ability to adopt the breeds featured in the other versions and the items can be traded between games with another player, so in essence the game choice is going to be about which type of puppy you want at the start, although you can get multiples and you can “Donate a Dog” later if you no longer wish to own it. Whether you’re playing Chihuahua & Friends, Lab & Friends, Dachshund & Friends, the special edition Best Friends edition, the later released Dalmatian & Friends, or the Japanese exclusive Shiba & Friends which is just the Lab & Friends version with a different headlining dog, the only major changes will be which dog breeds are available for adoption at the start and a few version specific items available. Nintendogs comes in many different versions, the one covered here being Chihuahua & Friends specifically but the differences between them are very small and eventually practically irrelevant. Casual gamers were about to embrace the DS in droves though, but not only because touch gaming was an accessible gateway even for people who hadn’t played a video game before, but because the console would get a showcase for what the system could provide with 2005’s pet simulation game Nintendogs. Casual gamers had existed in the background for quite a while, but most people accepted they were off playing hidden object games or broadly popular games like Tetris that also appealed to the usual gaming audience as well. Introduced at the tail end of 2004, the system’s easy to understand touch interface meant it could appeal to the type of player who struggled to remember the placement and names of a game console’s buttons, this system allowing Nintendo to reel in the virtually untapped numbers of the casual gamer market. Nintendo had a powerful one-two punch in the mid-2000s that helped it go from lagging behind its competitors to producing two of the best selling game consoles of all time, the first blow dealt with the touch screen gaming device known as the Nintendo DS.
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