I’m ready for a Nintendogs revival on Switch

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Nintendo has been in a trend of bringing back its classic games recently — most notably the return of its Sports series by way of Nintendo Switch Sports, as well as rumors that have been circulating about an official Game Boy Advance emulator. The company likes to hold its cards close to its chest, so to speak, because it knows the chokehold that classic games have on us fans. But now that Nintendo is finally rereleasing, revamping, and monetizing our old favorites, I have one simple request: bring Nintendogs back on Switch.

For those who haven’t played any of these games, or just simply don’t remember, let me give you a little refresher. Nintendogs is a series of real-time pet simulators released for the Nintendo DS in 2005. There were six total versions of the game that were essentially all released at once for the DS, including Labrador & Friends, Shiba & Friends, Chihuahua & Friends, Dalmation & Friends, and the Best Friends Version, with the main differences among them being the dog breeds featured in each version, as well as geographically where they were released. For example, the Shiba edition was only released in Japan due to the breed’s popularity in that country.

For some reason I thought there were a ton of sequels, but there’s only one, Nintendogs + Cats, which was released for the Nintendo 3DS back in 2011. I definitely had more than one copy of the game, something that was popular amongst fans who wanted to collect them all, or try out the different breeds that the various titles had to offer.

Not only were the Nintendogs games insanely popular, but they also really paved the way for pretty much all of the pet simulator games to come.

The main gameplay includes adopting dogs, petting them, washing them,