I Played Only Nintendo DS For 30 Days And This Happened

I played only Nintendo DS games for 30 days. A Whole month of Nintendo DS. After the 30 Day Gameboy Advance challenge, this felt like a good idea...

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Credits:
Kool Evro - Professor Layton and the Unwound Future - The Toy Car | Cover/Remix
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Peter Kay - Car Share
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[StiffAftermath]

What happened: your beard grew a bit more, and your taste for simpler times became seasoned with salt.

[Jason-szek]

I'm 15, and recently have just been in love with my DS, even though I have the option to play lots of modern consoles. Something about my DS I just love all of the sudden.

[BenCarnage]

I get the whole choice overload thing. I do love R4 cards/twilight menu though, because you can use unintended methods to get dlc that would otherwise be lost to time. I deal with choice overload by deliberately limiting myself to 1-3 games that I play until I beat them or 100 % depending on how fun that seems to be for the game. I've beaten, and mostly done 100%, in 13 games this year. It doesn't sound impressive, but it has been a super busy year xD

[hvr]

I find deciding what to eat for dinner more of a "challenge" than playing on a 3ds

[sandr]

NDS Lite with R4 and EZ flashcards is my go-to pocket console, even considering having Switch which is home portable console.
NES, SNES, GBC and GBA games on one system that does fit inside my pocket - this is whole mobile gaming is all about.

[Neucher]

Playing DS games makes me appreciate the timeless 2D graphics compared to 3D games who will look last gen in 5 years

[solm]

I picked up my dsi I got in a charity shop for €10. I’m playing Pokémon white. I’m loving it. Being an older gamer I was to old for the original Pokémon craze back in the 90’s. The DS is still an awesome handheld in 2023. Excellent video. I stick to three games at a time. So far I have finished 21 games this year. I’m never going to beat my backlog even is I life until 150. But there is something nice about sticking to games and finishing them.

[JelloFluoride]

The DS has an amazing library of games. Easy challenge really lol. I'm playing Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow right now, as well as SMT: Strange Journey.

[kiteracer]

Hey I just discovered your channel through the few 30 day challenges you posted. You keep mentioning Greece. I’m Greek-American myself, and used to bring my trusty OG Game Boy to our summer trips to Messini and Sparti in 1989-1993. No one my age had ever seen such an exotic device, you could hardly even find a regular NES anywhere (although arcade games is where Europe shined, lol). So many deep, wonderful memories of my summers at the beach, around the family “periptero”, even my mother’s village of Karyes (outside Sparti) where AA batteries were virtually nonexistent…so no finishing Gargoyle’s Quest till you get back to the city! These days I have a massive 3500-game CIB collection spanning all Nintendo and PlayStation consoles, but will never forget where my love for so many franchises started! Like you, I’m now sharing my faves with my young kids. Thanks for the great stories, subscribing.

[mb]

Incredible! Thank you for sharing your experience. It’s fun to keep it old school and ditch the mess of modern tech every once in a while. Please keep doing these experiments with other devices!

[galaxy_fox_]

9:18 seeing the DS in your kiddo's hands really put into perspective the size of the console for me. I always wondered how growing up I was never bothered by the tiny screens the way I am now but I was a kid with tiny hands, that thing was massive to me in my little child hands

[savioluizv]

Man this video shows so much passion and its so good to see and hear, it's like a friend telling me how its challenge was. Thank you. I surely will try this challenge too

[TheMysteryDriver]

For the Anberic mini thing. Games like pokemon where you can play one handed are going to help you the most with comfort

[_erigerlka]

I clicked on the video for DS nostalgia. I stayed because you featured Layton

[BrawlMouse.]

I'm recently playing my 3ds so so much its such a breeze to play my old favorite games again :)
also you do very very good videos

[davidlane]

The DS is truly such a dazzling console. I'm 32 and, yes, there's some level of nostalgia at play and, yes, I'm further biased due to the disproportionate amount of time I played it compared to other systems- but it really was the wild west. You really had no idea what kind of game you were going to be playing next- the variety of titles was and still is truly mind boggling. The console that I spent hundreds of hours on a watered down Phantasy Star Online sequel is the same system I played mario, a GTA spinoff, a first person horror FPS, a 3D voxel puzzle game, a synthesizer song maker, a touch only ninja gaiden, a choose your own adventure book game and a stick man challenge platformer on.

The 3DS is typically regarded as the superior platform due to its more modernized and refined feature set, but the DS library just blows it out of the water in the variety department. It strongly reminds me of PC gaming in the DOS era. Every new game was a vastly different experience from the last. It was first party nintendo games mixed with experimental gaming bliss. DS was the fucking GOAT

[RandmNrwegianGuy]

Haven’t started the video yet sorry hahah, but I’ll leave this comment here for now, before I come back later to check out the full video:

One recommendation for DS –
*Plants vs Zombies.*

I literally can’t stress it enough.

It’s so f-ing good. It’s like the “pre EA” version of the game, the OG idea, meaning before EA came in and added all that microtransaction BS etc etc. It’s clearly before the buyout; Plants vs Zombies in quite possibly it’s purest form.

It’s SO freaking charming; there’s over 30+ plants (and almost as many zombies), and you unlock a new plant after every single round (aka after every victory – smart way to constantly “spice up” the gameplay; that way it never became stale, because there was always some new game mechanic to learn, or something else I needed to “adapt to”, etc etc).
The plants are all so unique and fun, and they all have something distinct to their abilities, along with the fact that they’re also given “human-like” traits/personalities (like a cute little description of them in their bio, that mostly just talks about them as if they’re just a regular human person with thoughts, feelings, hopes, dreams and aspirations, etc lmao – and not as a weird ass plant 🪴)

And somewhat the same with zombies! Surprisingly unique-looking as well all of them, and with some very fun designs and variations etc when it comes to attacks/weaknesses and other things :-)

The game has so much life and personality, and humour, and heart – the developers (PopCap I think the studio is called) clearly put so much time and effort into this game; it’s so clear. And I honestly haven’t been having so much fun in ages lol. In fact, I’m kinda (definitely!) addicted at this point hahah (help)

In terms of what it looks like as a game on the DS, it mostly functions as a “mobile game”, actually, if that makes sense; most of the “action itself” happens at the bottom touch screen – except for the progress bar of each wave/round, which is located at the bottom of the top screen; everything else there is just some fun visuals and whatnot. :-)
It’s what I’m imagining the OG-version of the mobile looked like as well, mostly – before EA came in later with all of their lousy updates and etc, obviously 😅

Anyway, point is… it’s really, really, REALLY good lol. And there’s so much to do, too; even after the “story mode” (“Adventure”) is over, as there is so, so much post-game content as well. Lots of fun.
And in my personal opinion, it’s also a MUST PLAY for ANY Nintendo DS owner – and especially if you haven’t played (any version of) PvZ before at all!

Check it out if you can everyone
:-)

[Cyko..]

I like these series that you do, they are enjoyable to watch! I love Nintendo DS! Such a wide variety of games! I prefer my New 3DSXL, but I still play with my onyx black DS Lite every now and then to revisit the memories. Such a small, lightweight, and very portable device! More portable than my PSP or PS Vita!

[ShimmeringVapidCoal]

Cool! It would be interesting if you did the 3DS after the RG Nano and compared the libraries. Kinda sad there wasn't any PMD, but it sounds tough trying to fit a bunch of games into a tight time limit, and you managed to get in some great variety.

[Openreality]

Went to the ER for abdominal pain that was intensifying by the minute. The only thing that kept my mind at bay was my switch lite and playing vampire survivors. I can relate to your experience.