I have owned a Nintendo DS for about one month now and have decided to do a mini-late-review of the portable console.

History
I have had Nintendo Gameboys for years and owned a black and white gameboy, a Nintendo Gameboy Advance and a Advance SP. The normal Advance version of the console I found on a train a few days after it launched complete with a copy of Super Mario Bros too. I handed it in to the lost property but no-one claimed it and I was sent it back in the post a few weeks later.

I have copies of Super Mario Advance, Tekken Advance, Advance Wars and Tony Hawk Skateboarding 2. I have also purchased an EZ-Flash 256mb cart from eBay to play homebrew and backups – which works brilliantly by the way!

After the DS was launched I was keen to see what the device was like but was put off by the design. Wireless gameplay was fun, but with that beast sticking out of your pocket, you could not be cool!

After the DS Lite was launched earlier this year I was again on the road for picking up a new portable console. My Xbox and Xbox360 are hardly played, mainly due to the TV being constantly used by my wife. It’s much easier to sit and play a Gameboy for five minutes, rather than fire up the Xbox360. I am the same with my PC too and tend to use my laptop more as it is more versatile and can be used (almost) anywhere.

On my birthday I purchased a Nintendo DS Lite with the new Super Mario Bros game and a copy of Metroid Prime Hunters. I was also talked into buying a box of extras including a sock to keep the DS clean when not in use, a spare stylus for when the kids loose the original one up their noses and a set of screen covers to protect the bottom screen of the unit.

My best friend owns a Sony PSP and was keen for me to purchase one so we could play wirelessly together. There were not many games for the PSP that took my fancy and the size and format of the PSP puts me off too. It has a brilliant screen – but it’s just too big!

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