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Nintendogs retirement
10.30.2005 8:52 AM \| Link	As much as I enjoy it, I guess I can't play Nintendogs every single day for the rest of my life! So, I set a goal for myself and Virtual Stanze, and I'm happy to say that we met the challenge. My goal was to save up $5000 in prize money from contests so I could buy the fancy Japanese tatami room to live in. It was pretty cool to go to the interior decorator and pay, but then I was surprised because the game made me wait two days for the remodeling to be finished! But now my "place" looks really cool, and they even have the sound of water running outside along with the familiar plunk of the shishi odoshi! I want to put Stanze in the doggie hotel for her "retirement", but I'll have to buy another puppy first, since the game won't let you put your only puppy in the hotel. Maybe sometime I'll visit her again! Anyway, it's sure been fun training Virtual Stanze! I tried to take some photos of Stanze wearing some funny hats - it's definitely not easy to photograph the screen, but here they are anyway! While I'm talking about Nintendogs, here's my best game tip! When you're out for a walk, you usually pass by a few gifts just sitting in the street (not marked on the map), but it took me awhile to figure out how to get them. I like to run my dog to make the walk faster, so when you're running, watch the little icon dog on the neighborhood map. When you see it "pause" (even though you are still running), let go of the leash right away - that means something is coming! When you see the gift start to go by, yank back on the leash to turn your dog around so the gift is in their face, and it's yours! I've found some cool stuff this way! Be careful, though, because the same map pause happens when you're going to pass some garbage, and you don't want your dog to munch on that! On Friday I participated in a cool Nintendogs virtual event, just because I thought it was kind of cool and innovative. I took my DS to my local GameStop, and hooked up using Bark Mode to their demo DS, where I met Haylie Duff's (HIlary's sister) dog, and she gave me a special gift of star-shaped sunglasses (along with a voice message that played over and over). No big deal, but I thought it was very cool that Nintendo can do a virtual give-away at almost no cost, yet Nintendogs players actually feel like they got something unique, since there's no other way to find that item in the game. Wow! Labels: games, life


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