A month ago, my wife and I adopted a greyhound. She's a retired racer and, though she can reach cheetah-like speeds when we let her off-leash at the dog park, most of the time, she just lays around on her bed. Both of us had family dogs as teens, but this is the first time that either of us have owned one as adults, and the first time we've been the primary caregivers for another living thing. Sometimes it's fun. Sometimes it's scary. Mostly, it's absolutely nothing like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendogs.
The DS Took Virtual Pets To Another Level
I've rarely looked forward to a game as much as I looked forward to Nintendo's dog ownership sim. The trio of slightly varied releases hit the DS when I was 11, ꧑a time when I had little memory of the family dog we owned when I was a little kid. The prospect of looking after a virtual dog was exciting. In 2005, it was much more difficult to get exact information about when a game was launching, so I begged my parents to take me to Walmart every day so I could check to see if the game had arrived. Eventually it came, and I picked Dachshund & Friends.
My plan was to take the game on a family trip to Florida. I quickly realized that Nintendogs is the worst possible game to play on a crow💜ded plane because you have to talk to your dog out loud the whole time.
As excited as I was to get the game, I eventually stopped playing. Everyone eventually stopped playing, and that universal experience of moving on from our virtual pets has led to a widespread feeling of low-grade guilt. Most people don't lose sleep over it, but there is a real (if minor) pang of shame when you realize that your doggies have been alone for a few decades. There are no real-world consequences to leaving your Nintendogs behind, though, and every time I leave my flesh-and-blood dog alone, I have to think about exactly how long she's goingꦓ to be alone and how much she'll whine. You can safely ignore vir😼tual dogs, but a real dog demands attention.
Having A Real Dog Is Better, Harder, And More Expensive Than Nintendogs
Even when you were giving your Nintendogs attention and playing the game regularly, you were probably just stopping in for 30 minutes to do your daily tasks. A real dog needs more attention than that. I get up early to walk my dog first thing in the morning, then my wife walks her again before work. One of us takes her out in the after🧸noon, and again before bed. There might be a fifth walk in there, give or take. You have to pick up their poop, too, then find somewhere to throw it away. If you can't, you may end up walking, like, 15 minutes until you find a trash can, with the green baggie swinging back-and-forth incriminatingly, a wag of shame.
The other lie Nintendogs told me is that it's easy to just enroll your dogs in contests and win big money. I have no idea how to do that. Our dog was a racer before we got her and won her fair share of contests, but I see no money from that. I also have no idea how I would go about getting her set up for a dog show. Nintendogs makes this extremely easy. You just select it from a menu. I also was told that if I did a good job raising my dog, I could earn enough cash to bu♔y the expensive space-themed apartment. Thus far, no dice. IRL, dogs cost money and don't bring in any at all.
This article is, perhaps, the most obvious thing you've read today. But I can't help comparing the ease of walking my little virtual dog with a stylus whenever I felt like it versus hauling myself out of bed every morning for a dog bathroom break; the ease of racking up cash in contests versus t🎶he amount of money that goes down the drain on doggy accessories like squeaky toys, rain booties, and nail clippers; the ease of putting your Nintendogs out of sight and out of mind versus the sheer amount of time and attention real dogs demand. The upside, of course, is that real dogs can actually love you, and I won't pretend that isn't a bonus.
Nothin൲g Will Ever Feel As Futuristic To Me As Tꩲhe Nintendo DS Did
Touch controls? And a microphone? And two s🍌creens?!
