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* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: It's notably hard to win the hardest levels of the frisbee competitions, due to the fact that you have to have a perfect lucky stylus-slide for a toss, and sometimes you just get unlucky and your dog drops it. The other dogs almost never fail as the levels get harder, and they can "accidentally" walk through your dog, pushing it aside and causing it to not catch the frisbee.
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* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: It's notably hard to win the hardest levels of the frisbee competitions, due to the fact that you have to have a perfect lucky stylus-slide for a toss, and sometimes you just get unlucky and your dog drops it. The other dogs almost never fail as the levels get harder, and they can "accidentally" walk through your dog, pushing it aside and causing it to not catch the frisbee.Frisbee.
* CreatorCameo: You can sometimes meet [[Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto Shiggy and his Shetland Sheepdog, Pik]], during walks in the first game.
* CreatorCameo: You can sometimes meet [[Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto Shiggy and his Shetland Sheepdog, Pik]], during walks in the first game.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Contest commentator Archie Hubbs.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Contest commentator CuckoolanderCommentator: Archie Hubbs.Hubbs, co-commentator for the contest events in the first game.
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** InfantImmortality.
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* BootstrappedTheme: The official name of the series' theme song is "Bath Time". Evidently, the song was originally composed for when you're washing your dogs.
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* CatsHateWater: Downplayed, they only meow in displeasure a lot when they have to be showered, which obviously happens quite rarely as they groom themselves a lot and brushing them is sufficient.
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* KillerApp
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* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There have been plenty of hoaxes about breeding the ''puppies''. They tend to include having 9999 trainer points and having dogs of "a certain nature". Knowing the fandom and target audience, people believe it.
** There's also the infamous "Nintencats" rumor which involves Nintendo creating full, playable, counterparts involving cats but not releasing them since [[CuteKitten a game about kittens]] [[BlatantLies wouldn't sell]] (though, as noted, they did eventually add cats to the series...).
** There's also the infamous "Nintencats" rumor which involves Nintendo creating full, playable, counterparts involving cats but not releasing them since [[CuteKitten a game about kittens]] [[BlatantLies wouldn't sell]] (though, as noted, they did eventually add cats to the series...).
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** Arguably invoked with regards to competitions once you have enough money. There's no reason to play for more money, so it's best to just do easier competitions to get points. Meaning your mere presence is a surefire sign that no other puppies can win, resulting in only crushing defeat for anyone up against you.
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* IdeaBulb: And then your dog can then [[ExtremeOmnivore eat them]].
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* IdeaBulb: And then your dog can then [[ExtremeOmnivore eat them]].
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Could be considered this to the ''{{Petz}}'' series of games.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Could be considered this to the ''{{Petz}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Petz}}'' series of games.
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* RobotDog: In the 3DS games, the robopup voucher becomes available at Mr. Recycle (the secondhand shop) after earning 11,000 owner points or 34 days of play and requires x7 wood, rubber, plastic, and leather, x5 metal and x3 stardust to "[[{{ItemCrafting}} craft]]" it. They come in all sorts of unique colors. Like the rest of the dogs available, they still need to be given food and water, cleaned, trained, given exercise and relieve themselves.
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** This is changed in the 3DS sequel in which you find junk items [[{{ItemCrafting}} that are exchanged for items]] but you can still find the occasional accessory and toy here and there.
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* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Your puppies return from being bathed/brushed to beautiful with sparkles for a few seconds. Sparkles also show up occasionally when you pet them.
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* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Your puppies return from being bathed/brushed to beautiful with sparkles for a few seconds. Sparkles also show up occasionally when you pet them. In-fact, the sparkles and clovers in ''Nintendogs + Cats'' indicate that you're gaining owner point, the value in order of green, light blue, violet and golden sparkles
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* RuleOfThree: You must say the name of a trick clearly 3 times for your dog to learn it.
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''Nintendogs'' was the early KillerApp of the NintendoDS, especially popular with children and young women. You get to look after three puppies which you can feed, walk, play with and bathe. You can teach it to do tricks in response to your real voice, using the DS microphone, and enter it into contests to win virtual prizes.
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''Nintendogs'' was the early KillerApp of the NintendoDS, especially popular with children and young women. You get to look after up to three puppies which you can feed, walk, play with and bathe. You can teach it to do tricks in response to your real voice, using the DS microphone, and enter it into contests to win virtual prizes.
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Unlike {{Tamagotchi}} and similar virtual pets, a Nintendog will not die, get sick, or even age beyond puppyhood. Even if the game is neglected for an extended period of time, the worst that happens is that the dog may temporarily "run away."
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* NiceHat: You can make your pets wear these, ranging from ordinary caps to top hats and even the hat of a [[SuperMario certain famous plumber.]]
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* NiceHat: You can make your pets wear these, ranging from ordinary caps to top hats and even the hat of a [[SuperMario certain famous plumber.]]plumber]].
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[[caption-width-right:304:Can you tell it was made by {{Nintendo}}?]]
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Creator/{{Nintendo}}?]]
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** The disc competition has shades of this. It's entirely possible that your dog does amazing...only for another dog to do even better. Or you can do completely awful, but the other dogs did even worse than you.
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* MoneyForNothing: Later on, you're better off sending your top-quality pets in minor competitions to maximize your score bonus. The money potentially lost isn't nearly as important as the points you get for coming in first place.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''Nintendogs'', a {{Nintendo}} game about dogs. ''Nintendogs + Cats'', a sequel to said game with kittens.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''Nintendogs'', a {{Nintendo}} Creator/{{Nintendo}} game about dogs. ''Nintendogs + Cats'', a sequel to said game with kittens.
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* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: {{Justified}} being that they're puppies, most likely less then six months old.
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* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} being that they're puppies, most likely less then six months old.
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I\'ve seen at least two male calico kittens when browsing the kennel
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* GourmetPetFood: The café in the 3DS games offers desserts specially made for dogs that look indistinguishable from human food. The games avert this trope for the most part, however.
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* ItemCrafting: In the 3DS games, you can find items such as leather keyrings and plastic bottles that can be used as "ingredients" at the second-hand shop for creating items. Borders on JustAddWater when you can get stuff like functional keyboards and RC helicopters by doing this.
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''Nintendogs'' was the early KillerApp of the NintendoDS, especially popular with children and young women. You get to look after three puppies which you can feed, walk, play with and bathe. You can teach it to do tricks in response to your real voice, using the DS microphone, and enter it into contests to win virtual prizes.
Unlike {{Tamagotchi}} and similar virtual pets, a Nintendog will not die, get sick, or even age beyond puppyhood. Even if the game is neglected for an extended period of time, the worst that happens is that the dog may temporarily "run away."
''Nintendogs + [[CuteKitten Cats]]'' was later released for the 3DS. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin As you may have guessed]], it adds kittens as virtual pets you can keep.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AntiPoopSocking: When you return from a walk after playing for half an hour, the game will suggest you take a break. If you play for an hour, a warning will come up urging you to save.
* AuthorAppeal
* AugmentedReality: ''Nintendogs + Cats'' has an AR mode.
* CasualVideoGame
* CatsAreSuperior: Inverted. Dogs can earn their keep in ''Nintendogs + Cats'' by winning competitions and picking up gifts while walking. Cats mostly [[LazyBum hang around the house all day]], but if you leave them alone for long enough (30-45 minutes), they will go outside and bring back gifts. Even so, dogs can earn you money faster than cats.
* CloudCuckooLander: Contest commentator Archie Hubbs.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: It's notably hard to win the hardest levels of the frisbee competitions, due to the fact that you have to have a perfect lucky stylus-slide for a toss, and sometimes you just get unlucky and your dog drops it. The other dogs almost never fail as the levels get harder, and they can "accidentally" walk through your dog, pushing it aside and causing it to not catch the frisbee.
* CuteKitten: As stated above, the 3DS sequel has them.
* DeathbringerTheAdorable: If you want to, of course.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Your puppies return from being bathed/brushed to beautiful with sparkles for a few seconds. Sparkles also show up occasionally when you pet them.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''Nintendogs'', a {{Nintendo}} game about dogs. ''Nintendogs + Cats'', a sequel to said game with kittens.
* ExtremeOmnivore: You can feed your puppy treats meant for the cats (and vice versa), but they obviously won't enjoy it as much as a cat would (same goes for the cats eating dog treats).
* GuiltBasedGaming
* GottaCatchThemAll: Including the rare Jack Russell terrier.
** In the sequel the Jack Russel has lost its rarity, and it's now a ''RobotDog''.
* IdeaBulb
* AnInteriorDesignerIsYou
* KillerApp
* LuckBasedMission: In Nintendogs + Cats while walking your dog, there are occasionally rows of safety cones you can optionally zig-zag through to get a present. If a bag of trash, puddle, fire hydrant or mailbox is randomly generated at the end of a row of safety cones, forget about that present at the end, because your dog will forget all about the cones and happily dash towards the taboo, and you can't re-do it because [[RatchetScrolling you can't walk backwards]].
** Your dog will occasionally decide that it would be a perfect time for a bathroom break when going through the cones, it'll often move one of the cones, denying you the present as well.
* MushroomSamba: Feed your kitten the Chicken Jerky, which is sprinkled with catnip according to the description, and your kitty will spaz out for a few seconds.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Your dog will forever stay a prepubescent puppy.
** InfantImmortality.
* RatchetScrolling: You can't walk backwards when walking your dog in ''Nintendogs + Cats''. Passed someone else walking their dog? A place you were wanting to visit all day? A present? Too bad, you can't go backwards, not even an inch. This is probably implemented to make dog walks have a finite length, but it can still be annoying when you walk an INCH too far and miss something.
* SeriousBusiness
* ShoutOut: You can get a Mario or Luigi hat for your puppy. In addition, you can unlock radio-controlled Mario Karts that you can drive around. There's also a ? Block.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Could be considered this to the ''{{Petz}}'' series of games.
* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There have been plenty of hoaxes about breeding the ''puppies''. They tend to include having 9999 trainer points and having dogs of "a certain nature". Knowing the fandom and target audience, people believe it.
** There's also the infamous "Nintencats" rumor which involves Nintendo creating full, playable, counterparts involving cats but not releasing them since [[CuteKitten a game about kittens]] [[BlatantLies wouldn't sell]] (though, as noted, they did eventually add cats to the series...).
* VendorTrash: Your dogs can find things on walks which you can later sell. Along with ordinary useful stuff like accessories, they can find things like empty juice boxes, sticks, and broken disposable cameras. At the other end of the scale, there's fallen meteors and expensive vases which fetch quite a lot of money.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: You can be the sweetest owner ever. Or...
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can torture the little dogs.
* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: {{Justified}} being that they're puppies, most likely less then six months old.
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Unlike {{Tamagotchi}} and similar virtual pets, a Nintendog will not die, get sick, or even age beyond puppyhood. Even if the game is neglected for an extended period of time, the worst that happens is that the dog may temporarily "run away."
''Nintendogs + [[CuteKitten Cats]]'' was later released for the 3DS. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin As you may have guessed]], it adds kittens as virtual pets you can keep.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AntiPoopSocking: When you return from a walk after playing for half an hour, the game will suggest you take a break. If you play for an hour, a warning will come up urging you to save.
* AuthorAppeal
* AugmentedReality: ''Nintendogs + Cats'' has an AR mode.
* CasualVideoGame
* CatsAreSuperior: Inverted. Dogs can earn their keep in ''Nintendogs + Cats'' by winning competitions and picking up gifts while walking. Cats mostly [[LazyBum hang around the house all day]], but if you leave them alone for long enough (30-45 minutes), they will go outside and bring back gifts. Even so, dogs can earn you money faster than cats.
* CloudCuckooLander: Contest commentator Archie Hubbs.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: It's notably hard to win the hardest levels of the frisbee competitions, due to the fact that you have to have a perfect lucky stylus-slide for a toss, and sometimes you just get unlucky and your dog drops it. The other dogs almost never fail as the levels get harder, and they can "accidentally" walk through your dog, pushing it aside and causing it to not catch the frisbee.
* CuteKitten: As stated above, the 3DS sequel has them.
* DeathbringerTheAdorable: If you want to, of course.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Your puppies return from being bathed/brushed to beautiful with sparkles for a few seconds. Sparkles also show up occasionally when you pet them.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''Nintendogs'', a {{Nintendo}} game about dogs. ''Nintendogs + Cats'', a sequel to said game with kittens.
* ExtremeOmnivore: You can feed your puppy treats meant for the cats (and vice versa), but they obviously won't enjoy it as much as a cat would (same goes for the cats eating dog treats).
* GuiltBasedGaming
* GottaCatchThemAll: Including the rare Jack Russell terrier.
** In the sequel the Jack Russel has lost its rarity, and it's now a ''RobotDog''.
* IdeaBulb
* AnInteriorDesignerIsYou
* KillerApp
* LuckBasedMission: In Nintendogs + Cats while walking your dog, there are occasionally rows of safety cones you can optionally zig-zag through to get a present. If a bag of trash, puddle, fire hydrant or mailbox is randomly generated at the end of a row of safety cones, forget about that present at the end, because your dog will forget all about the cones and happily dash towards the taboo, and you can't re-do it because [[RatchetScrolling you can't walk backwards]].
** Your dog will occasionally decide that it would be a perfect time for a bathroom break when going through the cones, it'll often move one of the cones, denying you the present as well.
* MushroomSamba: Feed your kitten the Chicken Jerky, which is sprinkled with catnip according to the description, and your kitty will spaz out for a few seconds.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Your dog will forever stay a prepubescent puppy.
** InfantImmortality.
* RatchetScrolling: You can't walk backwards when walking your dog in ''Nintendogs + Cats''. Passed someone else walking their dog? A place you were wanting to visit all day? A present? Too bad, you can't go backwards, not even an inch. This is probably implemented to make dog walks have a finite length, but it can still be annoying when you walk an INCH too far and miss something.
* SeriousBusiness
* ShoutOut: You can get a Mario or Luigi hat for your puppy. In addition, you can unlock radio-controlled Mario Karts that you can drive around. There's also a ? Block.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Could be considered this to the ''{{Petz}}'' series of games.
* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There have been plenty of hoaxes about breeding the ''puppies''. They tend to include having 9999 trainer points and having dogs of "a certain nature". Knowing the fandom and target audience, people believe it.
** There's also the infamous "Nintencats" rumor which involves Nintendo creating full, playable, counterparts involving cats but not releasing them since [[CuteKitten a game about kittens]] [[BlatantLies wouldn't sell]] (though, as noted, they did eventually add cats to the series...).
* VendorTrash: Your dogs can find things on walks which you can later sell. Along with ordinary useful stuff like accessories, they can find things like empty juice boxes, sticks, and broken disposable cameras. At the other end of the scale, there's fallen meteors and expensive vases which fetch quite a lot of money.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: You can be the sweetest owner ever. Or...
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can torture the little dogs.
* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: {{Justified}} being that they're puppies, most likely less then six months old.
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