Visiting my Nintendogs After 20 Years

Bex went “home” aagain

- By Bex Prouse

The first game I owned on the Nintendo DS was Nintendogs, and I happened to have two different copies. I remember how I really wanted the Chihuahua and Friends one, because as much as I loved the Labrador and Friends one, I was desperate to have a German Shepherd. Blame the fact that I used to have one that I absolutely adored when I was a kid.

I remember spending hours running around, cleaning my dogs, playing with them, and just training them to be great at Agility competitions. Admittedly, this probably made me feel more in control, considering at the time the only well-trained dog we had was a particularly demonic West Highland Terrier. Our other dogs were wonderful, and I played with them a lot, but they knew how to embrace the chaos. Nntendogs just allowed me to have it, so my dogs were basically just puppies forever.

That way, I'd never have to say goodbye, right?

Except one day, I just... stopped playing. Other games caught my attention, and I obviously had my real pets. I had my dogs and my cats, so they had the priority. So one day, I just left them alone.