15 years that Léa had not turned on his console. For Tech & Co, however, he decided to do so to discover what his Labrador puppy became, which he had adopted on October 7, 2005 with his Nintendo DS. In the darkness of the house with garden where the action of the game takes place, we can clearly see a black truffle and then listen to barking.
A few seconds later, fabric, the farmer who chose Léa, is still there, brave: “It’s not like Animal crossingThe inhabitants are not in depression or did not leave the ship because I stopped playing, “he discovers.
Versions to collect them all
After Tamagotchis, we had a 3D animal before we who had to caress, walk, that had to be treated brushing it, nourishing and walking it. This is all the interest of Nintendags Who will have a real success in Japan, a country where he was born and will experience four versions with specific dogs.
In Europe and the United States, five versions will emerge, with some exclusive such as the boxer or the Dalmatian. The races are unlocked achieving different objectives and then we can exchange some of them thanks to the online connection.
The phenomenon, which begins hard in Japan with 250,000 copies sold in just a week, will go viral with the departure in the West. In total, 15% of Nintendo DS buyers had one of the versions of the game in hand, for a total, several years later, 13.6 million copies.
“When I imported my DS in France, shortly after its launch in Japan, I took Nintendags because I was convinced that I would never go out with us,” I released Guillaume, “I did not understand much in the texts, but the game was simple enough to be an object of curiosity.”
Breaks stock at the launch in Europe
Curiosity, players had it as soon as Nintendags Receive the perfect sacro-sa-sainte note from the powerful Japanese Magazine Famitsu, which gives you a 40/40 in May 2005.
If it was a scheduled moment in Gamecube, its final availability in the DS will give a projector to the Nintendo portable console with two screens, including a touch: “We could really handle everything with the pencil,” recalls Anaïs with nostalgia.
Two micromania vendors of the time remember and trust technology and have seen the versions of the second half of the different versions in the positions: “The game had great success, and then fell quickly. I remember that at first, we had great stocks in certain versions, such as Labrador.”
Nintendags You can also boast of having brought an essentially feminine audience, allowing Nintendo DS to sell a much broader audience massively.
Many years later, the players interviewed, however, remember to have learned from this experience: “It was with my first game console, and since then, I really like the comforting genre,” he specifies Léa.
Almost five years later, in 2011, Nintendo once more tasted the blow with Nintendags + cats3DS. You can access three different versions with cats and some unpublished dog breeds, such as French bulldog. But the success remains very modest with respect to the performance of the first opus of the saga: just over 4 million copies were sold in a console that has never known the interest of the DS.
What is certain is that Nintendags The players have marked enough to do that 20 years later, we continue to find clones on several consoles and devices. In social networks, such as Tiktok, some of the owners of abandoned dogs with pixels do not forget to pass the torch to the young generation. Because, because of the nostalgia regarding the rest, cats do not make dogs …
Source: BFM TV
