Snow Friday

Last Friday it snowed. Leela had taken the week off to go to Scotland, so she still had a day off, and wanted to do her Christmas shopping even though it was a whole month away - how efficient. We went into town just as it started snowing, and as we went around town we noticed the shops started getting emptier and emptier, and most shops sent their staff home and shut early. Luckily not all shops shut though, because I decided that it would be a good time to get myself my Christmas present.

In recent years I have taken to buying myself an exciting gadget - two years ago it was my PDA, last year it was my MP3 player, and this year I decided to get a Nintendo DS.

I've never owned any kind of gaming system, and have always been a bit reluctant to spend hundreds of pounds on one while I have a perfectly good desktop for playing games on. But I decided enough was enough, and decided that I wanted a DS.

So why not a PSP? Well, I was tempted (especially with Liberty City Stories on it) but I always wanted a gameboy, and I've always secretly been a bit of a Nintendo fanboy. I also couldn't see myself playing serious games on a portable console - I don't have time to play the serious games I have on my PC. I was looking for something I could dip into and play in the many spare 5 minutes that I usually spend twiddling my thumbs, so the main reasons to get a PSP were out (GTA, watching films etc). Oh, and for the price of a PSP, I could get a DS with five games.

I got a Mario Kart DS pack from HMV, and got a free extras pack (with holders and emergency charger) and a free game - Nintendogs, which is on order, apparently due to a national shortage. I then picked up Meteos and WarioWare from Game. Both shops gave me loyalty cards, and both shops will no doubt be seeing me again in the future.

Any suggestions for the next game to get? Having played Tony Hawk on the PC a few years ago, I'm quite tempted by American Sk8land, but I'm put off by the txtspeak title - any other ideas?

Comments

Simon Willison

I have Nintendogs. I have a labrador called Puddle. I've been neglecting him for weeks :(

radiac

You have a DS? Crazy! That makes three of us. We should sort out games and wifi!

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