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Game Information
- Platform: Nintendo DS
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Nintendo DS is no ordinary console. What on the face of it appears to be merely an upgraded Game Boy Advance is packed with a suite of never-before-seen features which make it unique within the gaming world. The most obvious new feature is the two screens (DS stands for dual screen), the bottom of which is a touch screen. This makes an enormous difference to the way you play and interact with the game, as you use a stylus or the handy thumb strap to control the action.
The way this works in a game varies enormously, with first person shooter Metroid Prime: Hunters using the touch screen and D-pad to create a control system that’s just as responsive as a PC keyboard and mouse. Other games, like Yoshi’s Touch & Go, have you actually drawing on the touch pad to create platforms, while other games use the extra screen to display inventory or map info.
But there’s more to the DS than even that. It also has a built-in microphone (one new medical game has you operating on patients with the touch screen and reassuring them everything’s going to be okay via the microphone) and it can be connected wirelessly to sixteen or more other consoles. Not only that but some games and utilities even allow it to connect online via Wi-Fi.
Although the DS is far more powerful than the GBA – it can display 3D graphics somewhere between a Nintendo 64 and the GameCube--it is still backwards compatible, so you can play all your old GBA games in single player mode on the same console.
With a battery life of between 6 and 10 hours the Nintendo DS gets pretty much everything right. With a range of games that seem to offer far more originality and imagination than any other home or portable console this is could well be the most exciting new console of 2005. --David Jenkins
Technical Specifications
- Size (when closed): 148.7mm wide, 84.7mm long, 28.9mm tall
- Top screen: a backlit, 3-inch, semitransparent reflective TFT color LCD with 256 x 192 pixel resolution and .24 mm dot pitch, capable of displaying 260,000 colours
- Touch screen: same specs as top screen, but with a transparent analog touch screen
- Wireless communication: IEEE 802.11 and Nintendo's proprietary format; wireless range is 30 to 100 feet, depending on circumstances
- Other features: embedded PictoChat software that allows up to 16 users to chat at once; embedded real-time clock; date, time and alarm
- CPUs: One ARM9 and one ARM7
- Sound: Stereo speakers providing virtual surround sound, depending on the software; integral headphone socket
- Battery: lithium ion battery delivering six to 10 hours of play on a four-hour charge, depending on use
- Two separate game slots, one for Nintendo DS games and one for Game Boy Advance games. The Nintendo DS is fully backwards compatible with all Game Boy Advance titles. The new format for games also means that the Nintendo DS has no moving parts that can be misaligned if the unit is dropped
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
I've only just got my DS...AND I LOVE IT!!!!!!! It has everything...and i've only explored the contents of 1 game!! The graphics are brilliant, and the touch-screen feature is EXCELLENT! I only got mine on 8th Feb and i'm already addicted to it! The sound is really good and on nintendogz (BUY IT NOW!!!!) this is an essential as u can play your own music on keyboard!!! Not only is it a must-have console, it even has an embedded microphone for EXTRA fun!! I've fallen in love with my DS, and even my sister is inseperable from it!!! all in all, a worth while buy if you dont own one, check your pulse...you may be dead!!!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Nintendo DS is a new way to play and talk in 1. It is also a hand held console which makes it portable. It is extremely popular across the world and is selling rapidly.Would you buy a Nintendo DS?. Many children use it more than the Nintendo Wii and the PSP which is a great point for buying one. If i was you i would recoment this game console to a friend or even family. If i recived a Nintendo DS i would always look after it and talk to all my friends and play on the games. The Nintendo DS Lite is the newer version of the Nintendo DS which gives you the same quality but a brighter screen and gives you 20 feet smaller in the distance.
review written by Stephanie.J.G (11 years old)
review written by Stephanie.J.G (11 years old)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I got my DS last Christmas and I had the most fun in the whole entire world. I also got the acsessory set with it. Unfortunately the bottom screen (touch screen) went a bit weird and I have been unable to fix it. Now I am only able to play GBA games on it. but I still have fun on them even though I was looking so forward to playing on it like forever.
I would recommend this to everyone, young or older and look after the touch screen!!
I would recommend this to everyone, young or older and look after the touch screen!!
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