Product Description

Put a puppy inside your Nintendo DS! Nintendogs brings puppy love to a whole new level!

Features

• Each version of Nintendogs comes with six breeds to choose from, and you can unlock additional breeds by playing with other owners through wireless gameplay!
• Collect and play with a huge array of items like tennis balls, flying discs and even clothing accessories.
• Compete in obedience and agility trials to earn cash to buy even more dogs.
• Interact wirelessly with friends` Nintendogs using the innovative Bark Mode.

Nintendogs features puppies from the most popular dog breeds, including Chihuahuas, Labrador retrievers, beagles and German shepherds. Each of the three versions of the game comes with six breeds to choose from at the start, and additional breeds are unlocked as you play.

The Lab & Friends package includes:

• Labrador retriever
• Miniature schnauzer
• Toy poodle
• Pembroke Welsh corgi
• Miniature pinscher
• Shiba inu

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #148 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Model: 45496736453
• Released on: 2005-10-07
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Subtitled in: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish
• Dimensions: .79" h x 4.92" w x 5.35" l, 1.10 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
In a nutshell:
The ultimate evolution of virtual pet: Nintendogs gives you opportunity to preen and look after a selection of cute puppies in a virtual home, with virtual currency, where you can buy toys and accessories for their enjoyment. You can clean the pups, feed them, walk them, play catch with them, and even talk to them.

The lowdown:
Nintendogs is brimming with character. Each pup looks out from the DS touchscreen and paws longingly. You can respond to your virtual pet's need of attention by stroking the screen, using items such as balls and brushes with the aid of the stylus, and talking to your dogs through the DS's inbuilt microphone system. Impressive 3D graphics give lifelike animation to these canine wonders.

Most exciting moment:
After a few attempts to speak commands into the microphone, your puppy understands the meaning of "sit", barks approval, and sits down. It's good to talk.

Since you ask:
You can keep three pups in your home at any time. When left to their own devices, they'll play and play-fight together. And they call this 'puppy love'.

The bottom line:
A Nintendog is not just for Christmas.
Jonti Davies

Manufacturer's Description:
In Nintendogs 3: Labrador & Friends you'll get to train and care for a a puppy, without having to clean up all those soiled newspapers. As you teach your puppy to obey, it'll start competing in dog shows. See if your dog can earn money you can use to buy new breeds!

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Customer Reviews

Outstanding A Must Have Game, Buy A DS For It
"At first glance, Nintendogs looks like the most childish game EVER. You train a PUPPY which you can call any name you want, eg. Lucky or Maxwell, and sit there and stroke it. But as the saying goes; never judge a book by it's cover. You delve into Nintendogs and descover a whole other world of entertainment. For a start, it's the most realistic puppy simulator EVER, although it still has Nintendo charm. It uses voice-activation (which, to be honest, is rubbish, but we'll dwell on that later), and clever use of the touch screen.

It may sound clichéd, but Nintendogs truly is a game for all ages. Hey, I can prove it. My dad's as tough as nails (REALLY!). He served in the army, and is very disiplanary. He hates it when I act immature, although he actually ASKED for a go on Nintendogs. And enjoyed it. That's quite an achivment; he would never DREAM of chosing, say, Mario over Halo. He says that Mario's a bit too childish for him. He's an IT specialist, so he knows what makes a good console (or, at least he thinks he does!). Anyway, let's not get too personal.

Nintendogs is a winner on all levels of play; it's addictive, it's clever, it's innovative, and most of all, it's fun. Play consists of training a puppy, teaching it commmands via the microphone and touch screen. It's all very sophisticated. You can enter your puppy in different contests; including Disk Catching, Agility, and Obedience trials. Another huge part of Nintendogs is walks. The walks are great. Map out the route you'll be taking using the touch screen, and then use a leash to control your dog while walking. It's pure gaming gold. On walks you'll expect to find 'presents'; this is to say, parcels, wrapped in paper. Not the OTHER 'present'. God, no. Most times you'll find an item you already have, such as the utterly useless bubble blower, or perhaps a shoe, and occasionally, you'll find the odd hat. Although the fact that somtimes you end up with a stick will annoy even the toughest of players. It makes me cry.

Back home, you get a full selection of toys and gifts you have collected in the game; items range from white leather boots to remote controlled Mario Karts. All Nintendogs have different reactions depending on which item is used; for example; my Golden Retriver; Lewie, hates the stick. He simply sits there and growls. While my sisters Chihuaua; Tom, absolutly loves it, but hates the dog photo (a personal favourate of Lewies', may I add). This is influenced by different personalities; some dogs are well behaved, some dogs aren't, and so on. The way you train them influences their overall personalities.

Now. The Microphone. Where to begin? Well, for a start, it's rubbish. It hasn't got a good enough frequency to be used properly. It's far too sensitive. It picks up FAR too much static. Even on low, the Microphone persists on being rubbish, although low works better than medium or high. The microphone is simply not good enough. Luckily though, GAME stores group Ltd. have realised this, bringing out a DS headset, which consists of an earbud and ajustable microphone. Imagine the Xbox Live headset, only smaller and weedier. You plug it into your DS, and you're away. No messing around. And because the GAME microphone picks up more Bass than Trebble (unlike the built in one, which does the complete opposite), it's much more efficient, too. It would be well worth investing in for Christmas. PLUS, GAME are flogging it for about £9.99, so you better get there quick. Trust me, gamers. I'm getting one.
(This was NOT intended as advertisment for GAME stores group Ltd. I was simply stating a fact.)

All this aside, Nintendogs has turned out to be an outstanding DS game. It uses the functions properly, and has a neverending replay value. That said; Nintendogs isn't actually a game. It's an experience. And one not to be missed, at that. This is what the DS needs to pull it out of the PSP's dust. Congratulations Nintendo, on what is, another truly outstanding game.

Excellent!
I got this for my 8 year old daughter when it first came out. She is still really into it, so that must be a good sign! I'm a cruel mummy, and wont get her a real dog, so she has to make do with this! She now has about 5 dogs on the go on this game, and has them all trained up and coming first in all the contests...

Its a really great game in my opinion. The graphics are great, and its good that it gets kids to realise that pets need feeding, walking and bathing too.

By the time I let her have a real dog, (a long time yet!) she should be a pro!!!!

Nintendogs Labrador y
This is a really fun and funny good innovative game.You start off with not much money and you have a choice of about three dogs to choose from.Then you have to buy hair shampooo and brushes for grooming your dog and toys to play with like a frisbee. Then you move into your house into a big spacious living room where your dogs are enterained and live.Then this is where the game starts you get to train your dog in three different ways like learning to catch doing special tricks and obedience.When you tap the screen the dog comes up to you and you can stroke him and he likes it.you can take him for walks to the choice of two parks a quiet one to practise and another to interact with other dogs.Sometimes on out for walks your dog will might bring back a present.when you enter competitios you do it for money and you get graded so make sure your dog is well trained.Everday see your dog make it come to you and an idea will come above his head touch it and you have some time to teach your dog s trick or just sitting.Overall this game is really good and innovative for the industry but once you have done it with your dogs and upgraded there isnt much to do so there isnt much replay value.Still get though its a brilliant game.