Talking Ben the Dog is an interaction-based game made by Outfit7 released on the 29th of April, 2011 for iOS, 2nd of May, 2011 for iPad and later it released on the 17th of June, 2011 for Android. The app introduced one of the series titular characters: Ben.
Features[]
- Talking to Ben on the telephone.
- Feeding him a can of beans.
- Giving him a drink.
- Making him belch.
- Making Ben read a newspaper, causing him to fall asleep while reading it.
- Going to Ben’s lab and mixing chemicals on a table to get different outcomes.
Removed features[]
- Break Ben's photo frame.
- Moving Ben's photo frame.
- Steve Jobs in the newspaper. (on the old iOS version)
Unused features[]
Characters[]
- Ben
- Tom (Newspaper)
- Angela (Newspaper)
- Ginger (Newspaper)
- Hank (Newspaper)
- Lila (Newspaper‚ old version)
- Larry (Newspaper‚ old version)
- Gina (Newspaper‚ old version)
- Steve Jobs (Newspaper, old version iOS version only)
- Carnivorous Plant
Meme[]
On the 4th of February, 2022, a popular streamer named Darren Watkins, better known as IShowSpeed regularly played this game, becoming a famous meme on the internet due to his overwhelming and funny rivalry role-play with Talking Ben. The meme mostly shows Darren asking Ben heavy topical questions on a telephone such as, if he loves God, if he supports LGBTQ+, does he support Black Lives Matter, etc. Darren would also usually argue or yell at him aggressively whenever he replied with "No" or hung up on the telephone on him. Ben and his app became the first popular meme to be from Outfit7 besides Talking Tom Cat (2010 version) saying “Boy what the hell boy" in the summer of 2021. Also, on the 7th of April, 2022‚ a popular meme named Talking Bella animated this game with a female version of Talking Ben.
Trivia[]
- This app was teased on the Talking Tom Facebook page nine days before its original release.[3]
- This is the final Talking Friends series app to use Tom's original model. It is seen on Ben's newspaper in older versions.
- Though this Tom model makes a minor appearance in Talking Tom Cat 2 on a pillow that quickly goes by the screen and on the phone icon.
- Originally, this app costed $0.99 USD on Google Play Store.
- There is an unused phone animation where Ben says "aha". The reason it wasn't used is unknown.
- This same thing happened with Talking Tom Cat.
- The app had an online presence in early 2022 after popular streamer IShowSpeed streamed Talking Ben.
- Sometime in 2019, the voice for Ben changed and was a bit pitched up.
- This game takes place in Talking Friends in Ben's trailer.
- Although, in the Tom and Ben News World Cleanup 2012, Tom refers to it as an apartment.
- As of Android 11, you cannot play the oldest version from 2011 due to scoped storage. There is only one solution to this, and that involves creating a folder with this app's package name in the Android/Data directory using a file manger with root user access. However, a rooted phone is required for this.
- On one of the Facebook posts, it shows that Ben probably left his framed picture at Tom's house.[4]
- The telephone is seen to have numbers.
- You can only see 109 elements on the periodic table in the background.
- In old versions, there used to be a Debug mode, which showed the player where to click to trigger a reaction from Ben.
- The beverage Ben drinks in the game is Apple Beer.
- As for 2024, a loading screen has been added.
Trailer[]
