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What was your favorite DS game? What are your fondest memories of the DS?
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My first DS memories were of NintenDogs and SuperMario64DS
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DS Lite. One of the best
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DS is still ambiguously "current" until 3DS is officially retired.

I got a DS for Christmas 2004. Still have that fat thing packed up in a box somewhere. Bet it still has a charge too.

My favorite game was probably Animal Crossing Wild World. Portable AC blew my mind.

I got the Ds Lite Mario Hoops 3 on 3 bundle as soon as it came out

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I need to use a DS to play Guitar Hero: On Tour. Can't do that with a 3DS.

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The DS came on to the scene as I was starting to get out of gaming, or at least non-PC gaming.

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My favorite DS game is probably Radiant Historia

One of my fondest DS memories was starting up Golden Sun Dark Dawn and hearing the title theme. It's a shame that game was so lackluster; it had killer music
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The last system where I was just a rotten pirate, buying a flash cart for it and just downloading every new game for free, often a week or two before pale could even buy them LOL

Not my favorite, but the first game to come to mind is Kirby Canvas Curse. Probably because it was so stylus heavy. Good game.

Also SM64DS is underrated and controlled great if you used the thumbstrap and touch screen.

Best Mario Kart game until 8 came out. Best M&L game with Bowser's Inside Story.
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i loved my DS. The world ends with you was awesome. Advance Wars DS and Castlevania DS were fantastic gems.

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Balrog0 posted...

The DS came on to the scene as I was starting to get out of gaming, or at least non-PC gaming.

I was a few years later in that regard; I remember getting games later in the DS lifespan like Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon and Sonic Rush Adventure, but not playing them much.
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Prob one of the dragon quests tbh but would have to think about it. Order of ecclesia is a good shout actually

Great little console overall. I actually had a launch one but it got lost on holiday a few years after so ended up getting another phat model to replace it!

I feel like I owned a lot of random games for it, like geometry wars and mortal kombat 3. Oh and the tingle game

My DS was my life until I got a 3DS, and then my 3DS was my life. Both are easily in my top 3 systems.

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Favourite games were Animal Crossing: Wild World and Mario Party DS
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I bought one and pokemon platinum after playing too much pokemon arena in wc3.

Who would have guessed pokemon arena would later creare a new genre of games.

Conflict posted...

It's kinda hard to pinpoint what my favorite DS game was. The Ace Attorney games are up there

Ye I binged these.

Also 999

I had a DSBrick and a DSi

My DSi still survives, my DSBrick snapped in two ;_;

My most played game was probably Pokmon diamond with 300 hours. The only Pokmon game I've put that much time into, in fact probably the only game
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I had an original model DS that I played a lot of Mario Kart and Super Mario 64 on. I remember cracking the screen by accident one day and then later I got a black DS slim where I played Pokemon all the time, Diamond and White.
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No but I got a 3DS.

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Oh and Animal Crossing. Put a ton of time into that too.
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Meteos is what sold me on a DS.

Also, Ace Attorney, Professor Layton, Hotel Dusk and Last Window, Ghost Trick, 999. Lots of good adventure/VN games.

I spent a hell of a lot of time on both Pokemon Pearl and Soul Silver. Dragon Quest XI, too.

Phantasy Star Zero is PSO on the go.

Rune Factory 3 was great.

I loved both Advance Wars titles: Dual Strike and Days of Ruin.

Oh, and I liked the first New Super Mario Brothers.
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I fucking love the DS. Castlevania, Pokemon HGSS/BW2, NSMB, etc. The only thing it was missing was a good Fire Emblem.

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For my part, I remember SM64DS and WarioWare being just about the only games available for months, so I played them well beyond what I would have otherwise. Advance Wars Dual Strike and Mario Kart were my favorites.
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bump
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The original ds felt cheap and frail in the hand
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Elite beat agents

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I remember someone here recommending Contact so I bought that shit and loved it. Same with Lost Magic. A bunch of sleepers on the DS.
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My favourite games on the DS were the Professor Layton games
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Easily the best handheld of all time. Library is massive and varied. Pretty much the ps2 of handhelds.
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I got my DS as a graduation present.

Metroid Prime: Hunters used to be a fun online game back in it's day.
I also liked Etrian Oddysee despite not being a fan of JRPGs. Reminded me alot of playing D&D.
Chrono Trigger was also an amazing port.
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Played a bunch of Pokemon. Enjoyed FFIII enough to want to do a gimmick run of all Red Mages(dem hats), really liked KH 358/2 Days, Chocobo Tales I think it was called, TWEWY, Kirby Squeak Squad, and others. The thing that let you download parts of a multiplayer game onto another DS was pretty neat and I used it a bunch for New Super Mario Bros.
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The World Ends With You is probably still my favorite DS game. The two character gimmick was really cool and made you feel really skilled once you got used to it. Also there was a lot of customization in the different skills through pins and perks through clothes.

Plus the game used just about every feature of the DS in battles. A ton of different touch screen gestures, almost every button, the microphone, even sleep mode for one optional fight. Outside of battle, you also had sleep and communication features, which were admittedly a pain to use, but still ambitious.

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Chrono Trigger, Aliens: Infestation, Metal Slug 7, and Ace Attorney series.
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One more bump
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Smashingpmkns posted...

I remember someone here recommending Contact so I bought that shit and loved it. Same with Lost Magic. A bunch of sleepers on the DS.

Contact is fun. Kind of a tricky RPG though. A little to Japanesey for me but I do love that Suda 51 was involved with the development.
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GOAT handheld
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My favorite DS games are:

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
Ghost Trick
Nine Hours Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

My fondest memory was how excited I felt being able to play a home console game (Mario 64 DS) on a handheld for the first time.

Delirious_Beard posted...

GOAT handheld

I kind of agree. While the original DS allowed for all the great GBA games, the 3DS has a much better library, imo.
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