Games: Nintendo DS: Nintendogs

Price: $29.83 - $35.00
Suppliers: Walmart, Zellers, Toys R Us, Best Buy, EB Games, more.

Nintendogs is a virtual pet game that will melt your heart out. A 3-D experience with the most adorable puppies you've ever seen. This is one of my personal favourite games, I love my Nintendogs.

The graphics and sound are amazing. The interactions and responses you receive from your puppy are all unique and realistic. Voice recognition works great, your dog will recognize it's name and your commands efficiently. It is easy to play through the game, baring little instructions. Very simple and easy simple controls, you are able to locate everything well. You basically control what you want to do with your dog and when.

Nintendogs teaches responsibility, patience, and compassion. You start with a budget, and you'll notice pets cost money. To earn money you can compete in the Disc, Agility, and Obedience competitions, but of course, you will have to train you dog inorder to be awarded with 1st prize. As you develop these skills, you'll grow to love your pup more.

You can unlock new breeds at the kennel, and new items, by collecting trainer points. There isn't much else you can do, so you can get bored of doing the same things over again. Imagine it as a real dog, you must do routine tasks to take care of it. The game runs on real time, so your dog sleeps when you're sleeping.

If you do get bored, you can buy new friends for your dog to play with. Each dog breed has a unique bark and personality, dogs love to play with eachother. But if you really don't have the time for it anymore, your dog will be waiting for you to come back excitedly. Once you return, it'd be dirty, hungry, and thirsty, but you can easily take care of it and everything would be back to normal. So, your dog won't neglect you, nor forget what it had learned.

My dogs: Lucky (Yorkie), Jackie (Beagle), Max (Sheltie)
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Penny (Chihuahua), Buddy (Jack Russel Terrier), Jaimy (Spaniel)

This is an extremely realistic game, and a great starter to pet ownership. I am certainly attached to my wonderful dogs. I only wish the dogs could grow and mate, aha.

My rating for the overall product is 9/10. One of my top DS games, for sure :)

Useful Nintendogs Guide:
http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Nintendogs