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digital pity: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 08:52 PM by Randy

I just got back from buying a Nintendo DS Lite.

Why? I dunno. I was originally repulsed by the DS and the touch screen (too many years of PocketPC's) but it eventually tempted me, and now the Lite is 1/3 smaller... more like the SP which I liked the design of. Maybe just cuz it looks neat.

What I did do, though, was turn in my GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, and GameBoy Advance SP along with five games and two AC adapters... kept Pokémon Yellow for old time sake. Turned out being under $90 for the DS Lite and the latest generation of Super Mario Bros.

Will I sell off the PSP? Nah - it's still the best mobile video device that I've got right now. That isn't a PC, that is. The iPod screen is too small for video and I don't think the DS can play media - besides their screen isn't all that big either. Keep it for gaming? Why not, I guess... I just sorta miss having Mario games around to play. The touch screen stuff? Still not too kean on that, but we'll see how it goes... games designers seem to have started to make use of it, rather than it being a gimmick thing.

*sigh* At least it's sorta cute!

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Posted on: June 13, 2006 at 10:12 PM by Randy

Holy crap, this thing still plays Advanced games? And there by GameBoy games??? I wouldn't have turned in Donkey Kong if I had known that!

Scary, the level of backwards compatibility, but the truth is that they'll prolly have a newer version out soon... and the new DS carts are SO much smaller than the Advanced and GameBoy carts.

Damned thing is still charging... 4 hours my ass.

Posted on: June 14, 2006 at 05:30 AM by Obed

Can't complain too much. Remember the days before rechargable battery packs? The Sega Game Gear could eat like 6 AA's in fours hours. And the original gameboy, I could spend more on batteries in a week than filling up my car with gas. And all for playing mega man on a tiny green screen.

Posted on: June 14, 2006 at 07:52 AM by Randy

True, that.

Another nice thing: some of the games have this "Play off my cart" option. So say I wanted to play head to head with someone else in Super Mario Bros via WiFi but they don't own it: they can download bits from my DS and play from there... dream for parents: you don't have to buy two copies of the same game, to play vs.

That's something the PSP doesn't have. In fact, if the PSP team HAD thought of it, Sony Management woulda choked on the notion: "why only charge $40 for a 2 player game when we can charge $80?!" Rather than seeing it as "we might lose $40 on the game if ppl find out about the DS sharing bits." I'm surprised Nintendo isn't promoting that more, altho, I don't know how many games offer it! Might just be Mario ;)

Posted on: June 15, 2006 at 07:59 PM by Eric

Congrats! we can share friend codes if you like!

Posted on: June 15, 2006 at 08:33 PM by Randy

I'd agree if I knew what that was :D