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Wappy Dog screens are the wappiest screens you'll see today
We've seen new media for a lot of games during Gamescom. But what about Wappy Dog, the DS game about interacting with a robot dog? We made it all the way to Friday without seeing any more about the only game that comes with a robot. Luckily, Activision Publishing finally indulged us with some wappy new screens of the DS game component. You and your battery-powered pal will be able to play a Whack-a-Mole game together, catch falling fruit in a basket, play rock-paper-scissors, shoot ... cannons at sharks ... and then just have a heart-to-cold-robotic-heart.%Gallery-131143%
'Wappy Dog' turns DS into robot puppy communication device
Activision Publishing and Sega Toys' Wappy Dog is primarily targeted at kids, but where some see a gimmicky toy fighting for holiday dollars, we see a robot that is controlled by the Nintendo DS. And we also see an adorable puppy. Players communicate with the Wappy Dog toy through the Wappy Dog game on the DS, talking and giving commands through the game, with the game "interpreting" barked responses from the puppy. As the game progresses, the dog supposedly learns new skills and develops new personality traits -- and displays its mood via colored lights on its cheeks. The game can also be played on the go sans robot, with progress sent back to the toy upon your return. We don't need to pretend we're building a friendship with a real AI or anything like that, though. It's quite enough that there is an adorable robot dog, whom we can instruct to sing by sending commands through the DS.
Activision and Sega show off Wappy Dog dogbot / Nintendo DS game at Toy Fair 2011
Toy Fair 2011 isn't quite as big a deal as say, CES or MWC, but it still has its fair share of nifty plaything gadgets. One jewel of the show is Sega's Wappy Dog toy that interfaces with Activision's Nintendo DS title of the same name. In what amounts to the logical evolutionary conclusion of the artist formerly known as Tamagotchi, Wappy Dog allows folks to communicate with their digital pets not only via the DS, but also by playing with and training their pooch's robotic doppelgänger. After playing with DS Wappy, the game automatically syncs up with the toy bot to keep it from developing multiple personality disorder. Though currently a prototype, the toy can dance (hopefully with a little more flava than its iDog cousin), whine, and bark in response to your child's interactions, and is slated for a release this fall at an unknown price point. No need to thank us for finding your next family pet.
