I have come to one, inescapable conclusion.
I am going to have to buy a Nintendo DS.
At first I was waffling on the whole idea. I hadn’t seen a lot of good games for it, besides my vague obsession with Nintendogs. And I had never been much of a handheld videogame player, save for my infatuation with all things Tetris.
But Nintendo is officially left me no choice. Not only are they coming out with a new side-scrolling Mario game, but they have just recently announced a new DS Zelda game as well.
It should be known that I am a Nintendo fanboy. I started off on the Atari 2600, thanks mostly to my older brother, who had a fascination with all things Atari. But after that, it was the NES. It was one of the joys of my childhold, and I will always fondly remember time spent in front of that boxy looking console. The NES was the reason I saved up money as a child, in the hopes that I would be able to get the latest and greatest games for it. Games like Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, Star Tropics, Zelda, Mario, Metroid. After that it was the SNES, and then the N64. I’ve been disappointed in the Gamecube, mainly because of the severe lack of software for it. But that was a trend that started with the release of the N64, and caused, in a large part, by Nintendo’s desire to lock in developers and consumers into proprietary formats. I may be a fanboy, but I still know when my idols really suck something up.
It looks like they’ve done something right with the DS, though.
I am going to wait until the release of the DS Lite, however. So I have at least a couple months before I have the little dual screen in my hands. Which will wonderfully coincide with the summer.
The big temptation is to convince Shawn to get one too. I just think Pictochat with Shawn would be incredibly amusing.