We Also Walk Dogs

When I was at the big Sega arcade (Joypolis — I am not making this up) in Odaiba last week I spotted a bizarre game.

Called “Walk the Dog”, it consists of a treadmill, a leash and a plastic puppy. You get to pick a breed of dog (Pug, Poodle or Golden Retriever) and then walk it through a virtual Japanese neighborhood.

You have to make sure you don’t walk too fast or too slow, stop to let your dog take a leak and stop it from attacking cats or getting run over by insane bicyclists.

Leave it to the Japanese to turn a chore into a game. But, then again, I guess Atari did it once too.

Next up from Sega: Mowing the Lawn.