Ping Pals occurs as chat/accessory program for the Nintendo DS. Although these are marketed when the unbloody, girl-friendly game, these are oftentimes criticized as non existence interactional plenty to become known as a game.

A program allows a user to customise their 'Ping Pal' avatar & game interface by finding from either ended Thou different things like hair style, makeup, wearable, backcloth, music loops and healthy results. Things may be unlocked by long term trading using more players or even buying the babies around the shop; players must trade to complete their collections, when from each one cartridge's shop offers the different subset of the things. Players receive the regular allowance of coins, using the DS' datekeeping functionality, & potty become further by swimming minigames (like Believe a Total, against a computer, & Hot Potato, against additional players), entering certawithin secret words in chat (both word works another time by a file) & possibly for finding to display the credits screen more than when.

As much as Sixteen players could play wirelessly applying a single gage cartridge; both must exist as in astir Centred feet (Thirty meters) of one of a others to exchange text & picture messages.

This game was freed in December 8, 2004. When there exists already the chat program on the Nintendo DS known as PictoChat, with features that Ping Pals lacks, a game did non sell swell & received unfortunate ratings.

There are many similarities inside Ping Pals to the Korean back QPlay by Nexon Inc. Such similarities include the dancing green creature seen upon starting up the game which is identical to a 'Cupimon' from QPlay, several avatar types, and identical clothing items.