Nintendogs: Shiba & Friends

April 21, 2005 Nintendo Nintendo
Simulator
NDS
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Nintendogs is a realtime pet simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was first released in Japan, and was later released in North America, Australia, Europe, and other regions. It was originally released in three different versions: Dachshund & Friends, Lab & Friends (Shiba & Friends in Japan), and Chihuahua & Friends. It has been re-released twice since then, first as a bundled release with a special edition Nintendo DS with a new version called Nintendogs: Best Friends, and then later as Nintendogs: Dalmatian & Friends.
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Release Date April 21, 2005
Developer Nintendo
Publisher Nintendo
Game Modes Single player
Perspective First person