Gameboy DS

[Caesar]

By older people games do you mean Bingo or Senior Solitaire?

[Brig]

By older people games do you mean Bingo or Senior Solitaire?

Strip Bingo and Strip Senior Solitaire. "BINGO BITCHES! Drop those granny panties Maude. Bitch, don't make me take yo' social security check! Whose da nastiest slut? You show is." Then she'll be like: "Ieee nneED mY heARt piilllllllzzzzzzzz."

Can I say this kind of stuff outside of my cage in the Anything Discussion?

[James S]

No *beats Brig with a stick*

[Brig]

*hisses* Throws shit at James.

[Caesar]

*Tranqs both of you and drags bodies into a cage*

Now beat it!

[Brig]

*Grannies froth at the mouth when they see the tranqs, then attack and devour Caesar.*

[suchiaruzu]

*Michael Jackson stepping in from the left, handcuffed, singing "Beat It" and doing (or attempting to do) the moonwalk with footcuffs*

[Noginzflauger]

I like the Sony PSP.

[sponge]

So far, my impressions of the DS have been the exact opposite of Dan's. The absolute aiming in Metroid Prime is but one of the aiming modes - the standard pen look method is still there. Screen looks to be VERY durable - it's not suggested against using your finger to touch the screen, though I wonder how accurate you can get.

Mario 64 DS has a couple of cool things to play with - instead of transforming Mario's face, it morphs into pen wireframe, and you can drag that around. 30 new stars (about 6 new levels?) and a bunch of minigames, plus the entire original make that a worthy buy.

They even had left handed mode for Metroid Prime!

WiFi is pretty cool, though I haven't been able to try it out myself. The local EBGames has 2 DS set up to multiplay Metroid Prime, though my friend who had bought it was able to join up in a 4 player multiplayer game from a decent distance away (10-30 meters they claim)

One VERY interesting bit is that if you run Netstumbler with the DS on/in Pictochat, the DS shows up!

In but one generation of software, Nintendo has already eclipsed what PocketPC developers have done with the touchscreen in 5-6 years.

[jubjub64]

I went out and tried it the other day and was very impressed with the layout. I just feel it has so much potential for gaming. The graphics didn't feel equal to n64 in the blurring of textures but it definately could push more polys than n64. I also felt the screen was durable and with a screen protector there would not be any problems. I wanted to try the multiplayer but there was this kid there who wouldn't give up the other DS.

[Jadam]

I want a DS

[tomdon]

I cant forgive it for being so darn ugly.

[sponge]

Really? I rather quite like it, especially after seeing it in real life. Clamshells pwn.

One thing that has me bothered: where does Nintendo go from here? They seem to be insistant on backwards compatibility, but they've also changed the cartridge pinouts (2 slots on the current DS) and will all future Nintendo handhelds have the two screens now? Or are they going to sacrifice DS compatibility in their next handheld?

[Jadam]

The next NDS could always run off one of them flexible screens, basically both screens could be combined into one so that it can have DS compatibility and they can also make the whole screen a touch screen.

[kornalius]

I think it is an impressive little machine too! I am supposed to get one for christmas. I was gonna buy an SP but in the end I like the DS better, it does what the SP does and more... Now let's hope my girlfriend got it the right way, DS, SP, SP, DS