{"id":648,"date":"2008-03-07T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T20:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/2008-03-07\/animal-doctor-with-maggie\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T20:14:37","slug":"animal-doctor-with-maggie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/animal-doctor-with-maggie\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Doctor – with Maggie!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"imagineanimaldoc.jpg\"One day not long ago two packages arrived at my door. One was a new star in Ubisoft’s intriguing “Imagine” series and the other was part of the “Pals” series. Both were for DS. One was Imagine Animal Doctor – a\u00a0 game whose packaging looks more like edutainment than a a video game – and Pet Pals Animal Doctor from Majesco – a game that looks like a kids game. Which is better? I wondered. Since I have an aspiring veterinarian in the house, I asked her.<\/p>\n

“I like the white one better,” Maggie said when I showed her the games. “Can I have them!?!”<\/p>\n

Maybe, we’ll see. So you like the white one? Why?<\/p>\n

“That girl is pretty. Oh, I like the bunny on the other one . . .\u00a0is that wolf going to eat him?”<\/p>\n

That’s a dog\u00a0sweetie,\u00a0come on lets open them up and see how they play. Maggie rushed to find her Pink DS while I opened the games up. We noodled with both, giving each a solid 15 minutes. Okay honey, which one is better.<\/p>\n

“Well both are a little boring, but Pet Pals had more stuff to do and read while Imagine (Animal Doctor) had less to do and looked more cartoony. Both were hard and kind of boring.”<\/p>\n

Well sweetie, that’s\u00a0what its like being a veterinarian.<\/p>\n

“Oh, I’d rather be a fashion girl then.”<\/p>\n

\"petpalsdoc.jpg\"So I went downstairs to the Subterranean Lair and grabbed my copy of:\u00a0Imagine Fashion Designer from the shelf.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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