Goodnight Sweet Prince 2005-2011
I've had to retire my trusty DS after years of service. It swung into something and broke a hinge while in my jacket pocket sometime last week. Technically it still works but it opens at a worrying angle and the top screen wobbles around so I don't feel comfortable using it now. This is after the promise of newer systems, waning battery life, a stylus that always fell out of its holster, a dead pixel and a touchscreen that would never, ever calibrate properly all weren't enough to make me let it go.
I almost considered using this as an excuse to get a 3DS but there aren't any must-play DS (3 or otherwise) games for me right now. Then I considered getting a pre-owned DS or DS Lite to replace it but they were much more costly than I anticipated. So finally to get my handheld fix I dug even deeper into the past (more specifically, my cupboard) and found my Game Boy Advance. Just using it for the past day or so has already brought back wonderful familiar sensations of hunching under a desk lamp or sitting in contorted positions to see what the hell is happening on screen. Ah memories...
It might just be nostalgia but the GBA wonderful to use. It's just the right size and weight for my hands and the raised buttons and d-pad are a joy to push, unlike their flat DS equivalents. It's even still working with the batteries I left in it years ago, although I expect them to go any time, and if I cared enough about a backlight then GBA SPs are comparatively cheap.
I almost considered using this as an excuse to get a 3DS but there aren't any must-play DS (3 or otherwise) games for me right now. Then I considered getting a pre-owned DS or DS Lite to replace it but they were much more costly than I anticipated. So finally to get my handheld fix I dug even deeper into the past (more specifically, my cupboard) and found my Game Boy Advance. Just using it for the past day or so has already brought back wonderful familiar sensations of hunching under a desk lamp or sitting in contorted positions to see what the hell is happening on screen. Ah memories...
It might just be nostalgia but the GBA wonderful to use. It's just the right size and weight for my hands and the raised buttons and d-pad are a joy to push, unlike their flat DS equivalents. It's even still working with the batteries I left in it years ago, although I expect them to go any time, and if I cared enough about a backlight then GBA SPs are comparatively cheap.