Time to bring back the ol' bridge club so I can make a rant that nobody will read and it can quickly sink back into obscurity...
Anyway, I just really feel like writing about my Nintendo DS. It truely is one of the most amazing devices I own. It never ceases to amaze me. The minute Mr. Hanky (that is my Ds' name) dies, I will immediate replace it. I really love my DS.
The weird thing is... I don't own a single DS game. Not one. Nor am I interested in purchasing any. There is not one single game Nintendo or any third party company has released for that system that I have the least bit of interest in. Home brew is where the DS really shines.
Imagine, all those old regular Nintendo games you used to play as a kid all stuffed into your pocket and playable at a moments notice. Same thing goes for Super NES or Genesis games, and Gameboy and Gameboy Color games. Old PC classics like the old Infocom text adventure games Zork and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the classic point and click LucasGames/LucasArts classics like Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2, Zak McCraken and the Alien Mind Benders, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Loom, as well as a vast number of other point and clicks from other developers. Old PC games like DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D. All these play brilliantly on this little device. And this isn't even a fraction of the stuff that is available out there, I have only listed some of the things that I am personally interested in. Oh yeah, and it has a built in Gameboy Advanced.
Not to mention audiobooks, ebooks, comic books (works really well actually, one screen shows the whole page, while the other screen shows a zoom in of the section of the page you touch with the stylus), mp3s, pictures, and even video files.
These are just a few of the things packed onto my 2GB microSD card right now (and newer devices support mircroSDHC cards up to 16GB).
It is kind of sad to see all the DS owners out there that never have nor will ever realize the full potential of their NDS, doomed to spend their time playing gimmicky games with a stylus...
So, anybody else into DS homebrew?