i didn't wake up today thinking i'd feel guilty about leaving Pepper and Patch in a dark apartment but here we are

it’s crazy to me how Nintendo has yet to bring this game back despite the strong demand, especially with the massive success of the switch and how it’s literally made for handheld

I’ll never forget learning that the little lightbulbs that appear above their heads were treats you could grab and feed to your pups.

“One day your dog went to bed not knowing it’d never wake up again.” To be fair, that’s how real dogs work too.

my most distinct memory of this game is letting my (at the time) toddler brother name our brown labrador, and him permanently naming it “Poop”. Poop ended up being the most successful dog we ever had, being basically an athletic prodigy, but I resented the dog for years because of his name. Justice for Poop.

Okay, tragic backstory time: I LOVED this game growing up. My parents hate pets, so this is the closest thing I got to a dog, and I was OBSESSED. My first ever dog on this game was Pumpkin the pembroke welsh corgi. I loved Pumpkin. I would take a bullet for Pumpkin. I took care of her with the care of a newborn baby for YEARS. Then, one day, I got one of those action replay cheat devices from a GameStop. I was like, "Cool! Now I can unlock all the items I still don't have access to!" So I stuck the device in my DS, applied it to my Nintendogs game, and... It deleted my save. IT KILLED PUMPKIN. I was never the same, man. I had all these cool new items, and for what? What was the point without PUMPKIN?????? I CRIED REAL TEARS. I STILL THINK ABOUT HER ALL THE TIME. Pumpkin was my dear baby girl, and I BETRAYED her, because I was a DUMBASS KID. RIP, Pumpkin. You were the best virtual dog any little girl has ever had. And like this comment if you, also, have been personally victimized by GameStop, in solidarity. EDIT: The overwhelming response to this comment inspired me, and I ended up buying a used copy of Nintendogs on eBay. Now I have a new cocker spaniel named Junie. THE LEGACY LIVES ON.

i think my parents can still hear me yelling “LUCKY!!! LUCKY!! LUCKY!!” at 5am christmas morning trying to name my dog

Nintendo not making a Nintendogs for the Switch is such a missed opportunity

When Eddy said "first, a word from our sponsor" I was confused. Because he had already promoted The Holdovers for 7 minutes at that point 😂

Once on a flight over the holidays, we hit turbulence and my Nintendogs cartridge went flying out of my DS case under several rows in front of us and my mom wouldn't let me crawl on the floor of the plane to find it and I never saw it again. I like to think my toy poodle is still flying around somewhere

My mom, a professional dog trainer, played my game and had her own puppy. She taught that virtual dog all of the tricks and I used him for cash to fund my other, stupid dogs that were just there to look cute in ribbons and pop bubbles.

The way Nintendo put so much tender loving care to nintendogs and the DS and never did anything like it again is CRIMINAL. Like you had all these features and on top of that you would be rewarded for playing with others!! You could get the dogs from your friends version of the game if you played with them! The DS was so amazing at letting you connect with others and socialize in a way that no other electronic device has been able to do again and not because they can’t but because they’ve decided to monetize everything.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the time and effort Eddy puts into playing both himself and his "twin" Tony in these videos? His chemistry with himself as two co hosts comes off really natural. He also does a great job with the editing, hair, and make up to make the effect pretty convincing.

"lucky, maxwell, daisy!" is something i chant daily

I love this video just as much as I love the 2023 timepiece classic "The Holdovers" starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa

the fun thing is that you could "feed" the dog the light bulb when teaching them a trick so that the dog would learn faster

Now that you mentioned it.. The most accurate to life thing about this game actually IS meeting other dog owners on your walk, who drop totally unsolicited advice on you and make it their mission to ruin your day! 😂

what a throwback to people shipping ted and archie from this game on tumblr

As a kid, during my first summer camp, I made my mom swear to walk, feed, clean and pet my three dogs everyday. She had never used a console before so little 7 years old me explained everything to her. Years later, she confirmed to me she actually did it everyday for the THREE WEEKS I was out. She told me she was so scared they would die if she forgot, so everynight after a long day at work, she took care of my fake puppies. I love her so much ;_;

Didn't think the end would tear me up like it did after having just had to put our dog Thor down after 17 years due to age. But here we are on a Monday morning three weeks after putting him down... And I'm crying before work making my coffee. Fun times as always watching the Burback's.

My man's doesn't know you can give the lightbulb to the dog as a treat after they perform a trick

"one day your nintendog went to bed not knowing they wouldn't wake up again" - this hurt my soul

wow, this video is almost as good as the multiple Academy Award™ Nominated film The Holdovers (2023), starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa.

I game tested this on the Nintendo 3DS. Initially, the mic's were so hot we had to separate into separate offices to give our dogs commands. For weeks, the office was filled with game testers in cubicles shouting the names of their pets! It was ridiculous

my memory of this game consists of me sitting in the back seat of my grandparents car screaming “lucky” into the ds microphone with no luck bc it couldn’t understand me until my grandparents got so annoyed they snatched the ds from me

"Adjusted for inflation that's about $30 today" Ah that's why my poor ass family never got me one.

DUDE..I have memory issues, but I totally had Catz and Dogz on my desktop as a child! I forgot all about it. Thank you for reminding me that my life is total crap and I once felt joy but it was so long ago that I can’t even remember how it felt.

"when was the last time you fed your nintendog" yep...and that's why I put off watching this video for 3 days. I knew it'd go there. Now i'm crying, thanks

Oh we are so Bur-Back

ive had this game since it came out and i never knew u were supposed to put them in the dog hotel,, i thought that was just extra dog storage omfg

When I was a kid I got the lab version and picked a black lab and named him Sammy, which was the name of my family’s black lab mix at the time. I still have my game and play it every once in a while. He was a very good dog, and I miss him. But it also makes me happy to see a little virtual Sammy run around ❤️

I had my DS stolen as a kid. I had poured everything into my Nintendogs save file. My toy poodle, Fluffy, was the best. Justice for Fluffy.

I got really obsessed with becoming the best at the obedience trials. I found strats online where instead of using the similarly sounding sit/stand you used one/two and kept adding new tricks as a number, skipping seven for sounding like six. This was purely to get around how bad the DS mic was at understanding what was said.

I also have a tamagotchi in my adult software engineer work bag, she’s dead and I keep her there as reminder of my Huberis that I thought I had the attention span

The playing Nintendogs under your covers as a kid is so real, I remember one time where I was trying to train them but it was in the middle of the night and I had to keep whispering louder and louder so the DS could pick up my voice lol and it was nerve-wracking, I didn’t want to wake my parents up 😂😂

my sister told me not to abandon nintendogs because the game makers programed the dogs so well that they have feelings, yes I was traumatized.

When I was on swim team as a kid, I used to attend these massive swim meets at naval colleges. EVERYONE there my age was rocking a DS with Nintendogs. At least a hundred kids all playing at the same time. It was magical. I unlocked every kind of dog available- thankfully before DS’s were banned for the PictoChat parties getting too crazy.

I walked my Nintendogs today, honey!! I’m different

Finding out the tamagotchi would be $30 today is actually insane

The Lilo and Stitch Sandwich Stacker goes hard and you will never convince me otherwise

The Lilo and Stitch Sandwich Stacker mention caught me off guard. Definitely a big one for me back in the day along with others like Codename Kids Next Door: Flight of the Hamsters, and Mr. Meaty: Treasures of the Deep.

i never got rid of my nintendogs. i pick the game back up every now and then and recently got back into a nintendogs binge, so this video is mad coincidence for me lmao. i'm 29 and still feel attached to my dogs and will probably care for them until the game cards no longer work.

I loved this game so much, and I bought the 3DS version “Nintendogs + cats” and my only disappointment was the loss of the paths for walks. Nice video as always! Love the content!

i’m so relieved to see eddy struggle with the obedience trials i could NEVER get that to work and it hurt me deeply as someone whose dogs were a champion in agility and disc competitions

That little groove moment to the pet supplies shop music unlocked a core memory for me.

As an adult I finally was able to buy a copy of Nintendogs I’ve been playing for months now off and on. My childhood dreams are fulfilled, also I am fairly allergic to dogs, I used to have one before I knew better. Nintendogs will have to be my outlet for life.

When I was a kid I played this game religiously. Checked on my puppies every day, fed them, put them in a hotel before I had to leave them alone for a while, the whole thing. Then, one tragic day, as often happens with DS carts when you're 7, I misplaced it. I tore up the house. I was inconsolable at the loss of my beloved puppies. To this day, they haven't been found. Thank you for forcing me to relive my trauma and making me feel guilty for it!

OMG!! Original Petz series mentioned!! One of the earliest games I was in love with 😭 I still open them time to time

The tiny ruff at 1:14 shattered my little heart into a thousand pieces 😥

I lost my nintendogs when I was little and my favourite dog was a corgi named Percy. Without FAIL everytime my mom would say the word purse, she'd follow it up with "Poor Percy" and it made kid me feel so guilty. I did eventually find it and I still go on to take care of Percy from time to time to make up for the years of neglect.

GOOD LORD what a core memory unlocked when i saw the Catz and Dogz covers holy crap ive not thought about those games in ages between this and the MLP horse raising game I was set on pet sims for a long while

I totally loved watching The Holdovers! I watched it three times in the movie theatre. Probably one of my new favourite films.

RIP peanut, gone but never forgotten. Maxed out in disc competition/stamina and no other skills ilysm

When I first got this game I didn’t know you could name the dogs whatever you wanted so all my dogs were named ether Lucky, Maxwell, or Daisy.

The bond formed with these digital pets was surprisingly strong and lead to some heartwrenching goodbyes.

Petz might not have been the most aesthetically pleasing but they are SUPERIOR to all sim pets in personality and have personality coding that is still somewhat of a mystery today. The petz series is what taught me computer file systems downloading breeds, clothing, and toys the community made themselves.

7:30 "hold on... *vibin'*" that music is pretty vibe tho ngl

Holy shit, you guys dug up ancient memories with the early Windows Cats and Dogs. I remember playing with them on when I was very young

My favourite trick was feeding them the lightbulb when they got a trick right

Archie and Teddy were 100% boning after every competition

the holdovers references throughout this video are cracking me up

OH BOY A VIDEO

OH MAN I LOVED DOGZ. So many memories calling that creepy little bug-eyed puppy across the screen with the little pixelated toys.

1:49 I PLAYED THIS ON MY PARENTS' COMPUTER! Thanks for the flashback, I was not expecting it!

Nintendogs was one of those completely arbitrary things in my childhood that affected me so much simply because I didn’t have it. I wanted nintendogs so bad I took the nintendogs book from my school library when I was like 8.

Man, I would not shut up until I got Nintendogs. I was so dog-obsessed as a little girl this game was MADE for me. I think I was eventually able to borrow a friend’s DS and rented the game, so the heartbreak of saying goodbye was even more devastating 😢

You guys are on an awesome streak of covering all my favorite childhood games. So much nostalgia. Thanks for the content.

We had both the dogz & catz 2 on our pc when I was younger. It was cool to have the weird little cat or dog hanging while you did stuff on the computer. I remember installing them on every new pc my mom bought, until they were too old to work. Not all dogs looked quite that creepy, the cats looked slightly better overall, probably because it was released a little later. Really though, it was a program that was meant to run 24/7 on your pc, in the background, and along side your other programs, while also interacting with you and your mouse movements, ambitious for the mid 1990s. Considering how long ago it was, I wouldn't expect the graphics to be very good. Most full pc games didn't even have good graphics. 1:39

For some reason, I still have my Nintendo DS and all my games. I’ve had it for…. Maybe 15 years? It’s survived 5 moves. We’re supposed to get snow tonight here so I guess it’s time for me to check in on all my nintendogs lol.

I wheezed laugh during the obedient trial bit, took me back to my frantic nine year old self who was just screaming at my dog to sit! Got in trouble once for yelling because my dog wouldn't perform any of the tricks.

Straight bangers with these recent videos hitting some of my favorite games from childhood. Love you guys and love these videos

I was OBSESSED with Dogz 4 as a kid.

I do sure love The Holdovers too, Eddy! Such a great film, with so much heart. Nintendogs is cool too... i guess.

I just bought nintendogs for my DS a week ago and have been playing every day this video couldn't have came at a better time for me

Absolutely everyone at my elementary school either had or wanted this game. When I watched the cool older kids get their huskies and german shepherds I knew it had to be incredible. And I was right Nintendogs was the best game ever made

I’ll never forget crying real tears because my DS couldn’t understand me when I was trying to name my dog. It took AGES. I was so upset. Also I was doing this while I was visiting my great grandmother with dementia so that was slightly off beat for 7 year old me

Jokes on you guys I actually deleted my Nintendogs save when I was done with the game as a child and cried about it, and your guilt trip intro definitely had no effect on my psyche.

I had 3 chihuahuas named Taco, Burrito, and Chip ❤️ RIP I guess bc they haven’t been fed in probably 15 years 😢

omg dogz!! i had completely forgotten about those little guys! their designs were weird but their idle animations and reactions were really cute actually, it was too easy to get attached haha

I love Nintendogs! I spent hundreds of hours in Dachshund & Friends. I had 3 huskies, all different. Marila, Juta, Ati. Obedience boss girl, agility star, and disk catching champ. They all were great at everything but had their own individual strengths and, as I like to believe, preferences. In-game time spent with each dog was in the 10s of hours. That’s hours individually playing, petting, training them. I love my nintendogs. I recorded a song on that music player for them. I believe I unlocked most of the toys too, besides some exclusives. I loved my nintendogs. I really miss them.

this makes me want to dig out my old copy of nintendogs and cats and stop in on my old pets. my brother and i shared a copy of the game , so we each got to adopt one pet. great memories.

10:33 eyyy Lilo & Stich Sandwich Stacker mention. I played the hell outta that. Also, when a light bulb appears above the dog you can drag it and the dog can eat the lightbulb as a treat!

Man, blast from the past! I loved playing the old Dogz and Catz PC games. I may still have a copy of Dogz II or 3 shoved in a box somewhere. I also used to play the Nintendo 3DS Petz Bunnyz game all the time as well.

The nostalgia this video invoked in me hit me like a truck. Holy shit. Excellent job, and thank you for taking me back to the memory of my lovely little dachshund.❤

I LOVED this game as a kid! I also remember having the Windows Cats and Dogs as well. Another one of my favorite pet sims was the original Petz on DS where you play as a kid who gets their first dog and teaches it tricks, how to walk on a leash, and like house etiquette (couldn't think of another rule). I think I replayed that 3 or 4 times and I'll NEVER forget how my little sister wanted to play the game so she took it from me and DELETED my og dog that was a beagle named Brownie. I still haven't forgiven her lol (I mean I have but that is a VERY distinct memory). Also I still have Nintendogs and the nintendogs for 3ds and I don’t think I’ll ever get rid of them because they were absolutely two of my favorite games as a kid and this video is making me want to go check onto them😅

Nintendogs, the game that turned us all into professional dog trainers! Who needs real dogs when you can have virtual ones that can win competitions and earn money for your dream apartment in space?

thanks for reminding me I rebought nintendogs a few months ago and now theyve been starving in the recesses of my desk drawer

I remember getting this from my neighbors daughter as a hand me down. She played it when she was a kid and used a game shark to get max money so my experience was just using the most expensive toys and games and running over the dogs with the bowser car 😂😂

the tangent to explain the best movie ever made is so real

Thank you for promoting The Holdovers movie in between!

My sister and I had that game as kids. Loved it!

I seriously teared up when i seen this upload! The countless hours i had almost completely forgotten about, all came rushing back to me. The nostalgia and joy i felt seeing this! Oh my god! Its been a really rough year so far, i needed this. Thank you for this Gem.

My ds's microphone never worked and the only way we found this out was because whenever i played nintendogs on my ds my dog would never come to me and i got really upset by this and so could only play nintendogs on my dad's ds whose mic actually worked

this channel is so criminally underrated, literally one of my favorites and i get so excited when you boys drop

You guys were joking but the guilt I knew I would feel for one day abandoning a virtual dog is the exact reason I never got one.

You know Helldivers 2 is goated when it’s already gotten a Burback appearance 🙏🏻 Great video bois

I’m an 06 kid so the hype around Nintendogs was kinda low when I was old enough to have a DS, but this really reminds me of the feature in Pokémon X&Y where you could similarly feed and play with your Pokémon. It was really emotionally engaging as a child and was a core memory for me

i’m high and this is genuinely one of the best funniest most well written videos i’ve seen in a long time

I never would have remembered that I had Dogz 3 as a kid but seeing the case art for it instantly brought back so many memories!

We really should talk more about the Holdovers though tbh