The Nintendo is 20 years old today.
It's still wild to me that it released two weeks earlier in the US, compared to Japan.
In Europe, we would have to wait till March to get the system, which is why this launch edition is from March 2005.
Feature titled: Touch the Future.
Taken from Nintendo Official Magazine 151 - March Special Edition 2005 (UK)
This issue can be found here in full:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/nintendoofficialmagazine.html
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12 Comments
donuts@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Ah yes, The "Nintendo". According to my mom, The Nintendo has been around since the 80's ;)
Jokes aside, I remember buying this bulky plastic thing and absolutely loving it.
Then 2 years later the DS Lite came out and hoo boy, I had to have that one after seeing how much cleaner it looked!
OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games · 2 pts · 1y
@donuts@lemmy.world
The DS Lite is still the perfect handheld to me.
Looks gorgeous, feels absolutely perfect.
The only downside is that my eyes are getting worse and worse as I get older, so the smaller screen is a bit harder for me to enjoy.
Bronwyn@sfba.social · 1 pts · 1y
@OutofPrintArchive @donuts yeah this is what I called “the nintendo!” 1986.
OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games · 1 pts · 1y
@Bronwyn @donuts
That’s still “the Nintendo” for me as well. 😅
OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games · 1 pts · 1y
@Bronwyn@sfba.social @donuts@lemmy.world
And only now I realise that I left out DS… 👀
Once again this proves that I’m better off posting the least as possible when I have the early shift and have been awake since 3:45am. 😂
donuts@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Hahaha yeah that was what it was about. You can still edit the title if you want
edit: oh maybe not on Mastodon, idk. On Lemmy you can edit titles after posting, from where I am replying
OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games · 2 pts · 1y
@donuts@lemmy.world
It’s fine.
It’s not the first blunder I make and it definitely won’t be the last. 😅
COMPU73E@mstdn.games · 2 pts · 1y
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games still the best game system ever made. I want a modern one, make the Switch 2 a dual screen clamshell please Nintendo
OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games · 1 pts · 1y
@COMPU73E@mstdn.games
I'll gladly agree with that, despite the little voice in the back of my mind whispering "Sega Saturn"... 😄
And now you got me dreaming....
A Switch 2, double screen, clamshell design.
Fully backwards compatible with the Switch, Nintendo DS and 3DS...... 🥶
scribblemacher@mstdn.games · 1 pts · 1y
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games @COMPU73E@mstdn.games it was such a simple thing, but touch input and two screens solved so many problems games have with UI and let us do a lot of cool stuff. And unlike the Switch, it still fit in a pocket!
I still regularly play my DSi (in fact, I ran through a grotto in DQIX this morning). It was such nice hardware, but games still had many design features of earlier handhelds (brevity, bigger UI elements, etc).
OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games · 1 pts · 1y
@scribblemacher@mstdn.games @COMPU73E@mstdn.games
I really need to go back to my DS.
Didn’t play it very much this past summer, unlike most summers.
I guess I got caught up when I went a little PS2 crazy during my vacation time. 😅
Tristan@catnest.net · 1 pts · 1y
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games I remember my mind being absolutely BLOWN when I saw my friend play timeace for the DS when it first came out. Damn interet keeping me up to date on technological developments, im never impressed anymore when I see doodads.