The Game Boy-DS

It's nice to look and see how far we've come, but c'mon, sometimes we get a little nostalgic for the good old days too.

[Via Engadget Japanese]

[The_Wind_Waker8 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Hardcore, dude. I want one of those!

[KEVO @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

i want one

[� PINION CORPORATION � @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

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That is awesome! If I had one of those I would do that to it. Probably stop the theft of them too.

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[Orbberius @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Now someone needs to make the PSP look like a GameGear!

[gozer @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

that's great.

[chardk1 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Now if they can somehow shrink it down to the size of a game boy color, we've got something really good!

[2kings @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

http://www.maxconsole.net/content_img/psptvfunny.jpg

i want a ds now :P

[Ali @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Oh! C' mon, it's just a DS with a Vinyl sticker on it.
I've had a DS for about a year now and I've already applied about 5 different vinyls on it.
SO! No Big!

[Matt @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Now someone needs to make a PSP look like an SNES...because that's all its good for.

[SPhrog @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

I'd be more impressed if they managed to squeeze a cartridge slot and a functioning Game Boy Color processor and screen on the lid so I could actually play my old gameboy games on the DS :(

[Matt @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

I still have my game boy from the mid 90's :)

[Chris @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

I've still got my original GameBoy from '89 or whenever it was they first came out.. it even works! ..sometimes.

[Zach @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

That's pretty cool but didn't the original GB and the GB Pocket boot with "Nintendo" inside a rounded rectangle? Oh! *snap snap snap*

[maurik willemse @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

I want a NDS more every day!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rare Hare @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Zach.. actually, the Nintendo logo it booted with was *not* inside the oval shape. and in some games it *also* booted with the Game Boy logo.

*oh snap*

/pwned.

[Scott @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Ahhhh The Game Boy, good times.

[Fergie @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

To mr nuclear the ds is great and so is nintendo. They do something different all sony do is the same old thing over and over again. Pretty damn boring there

[Mr nuclear @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Thats all good Fergie : ) and your opinion is very much valid, I am a DS fan, I love Sony but am not at all feeling the PSP. For me nintendo are ALL about gaming and thats what I expect from a gaming machine ...

,... GAMES, PLAIN AND SIMPLE : )

Just so EVERYONE knows that comment ( POST 14 )was only for that IIIIDIOT FOOL ( post 6 )

[David @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

"To mr nuclear the ds is great and so is nintendo. They do something different all sony do is the same old thing over and over again. Pretty damn boring there"

Are you ignorant?...

Sony had the balls to stand up to Nintendo in a market they have dominated since well...since the very first Game Boy was introduced. Not only that, but they are standing their ground. The REASON Nintendo bothered to come out with the DS is because Sony scared them a bit. How can you say the PSP is same old same old...?

[Spence @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

I like it, I'd pay a few quid for that sticker.
at the moment I just have some yukky tartan sticker I found in my room.

[ez @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

If you had some functioning buttons or maybe a funtioning screen, I would be impressed, but this is nothing.

[Trejkaz @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Dead link on the image...

[mdaltezza @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

I agree completely with Mr. Nuclear.
I'm all about the gaming aspect.. and Nintendo is just good wholesome FUN!!! But to each their own... some people like the RPG's that take forever to complete.. some people want the good old Atari Pac-man Namco games.

[Mr nuclear @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

just so people know my post was taken away.
( not you Matt, : ) it was for some idiot boy who goes by the name of : dDS IS SHITT SHITT SHTTTTTT, his message was taken off).

PEACE OUT good folks : )

[Kat @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Is it real or just a skin??

[Cambob @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

You're right on Matt... I know a guy who spends 99% of his PSP time playing SNES emulated games... DS is the shiznit.

[Kat @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

never mind I'm a dummy :P

[Revolver @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

From #16, David: "The REASON Nintendo bothered to come out with the DS is because Sony scared them a bit. How can you say the PSP is same old same old...?"

I disagree, if Nintendo had wanted to compete with the PSP head-on they would've rushed an all new souped up GameBoy to the market. Instead, they brought a handheld with two screens, one of them being a touchscreen that could interact with a stylus. The DS is/was widely regarded as a wild proposition and I just don't see Nintendo taking such liberal risks in the handheld market.

Now there is no question that the PSP forced Nintendo to rush the DS to market. If I'm not mistaken, Nintendo was looking at creating the next Gameboy but one of the hardware designers (forget his name) started thinking about new features and it was then decided that it would probably be going too far with a Gameboy and so they called it the DS and it represented a so called "third pillar".

Now what's weird here is how quickly Nintendo decided to bring about the system. They announced out of the blue in January of 2004, introduced it (along with some games and tech demos) at E3 that year, and finally released it in November of 2004. I don't know if Nintendo has announced, shown it, and released an all new gaming system that quickly (certainly not within one year). It certainly looks very odd compared to how they have handled their consoles.

[James Turese @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Hmm brings back some memories of the old black and white gameboy screen.Compared to the PSP, the gameboy is just a little TOO old school for me.

[The_Wind_Waker8 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Hardcore, dude. I want one of those!

[KEVO @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

i want one

[� PINION CORPORATION � @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

__________________________________________________
��������������������������������������������������

That is awesome! If I had one of those I would do that to it. Probably stop the theft of them too.

__________________________________________________
��������������������������������������������������

[Orbberius @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Now someone needs to make the PSP look like a GameGear!

[gozer @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

that's great.

[chardk1 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Now if they can somehow shrink it down to the size of a game boy color, we've got something really good!

[2kings @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

http://www.maxconsole.net/content_img/psptvfunny.jpg

i want a ds now :P

[Ali @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Oh! C' mon, it's just a DS with a Vinyl sticker on it.
I've had a DS for about a year now and I've already applied about 5 different vinyls on it.
SO! No Big!

[Matt @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Now someone needs to make a PSP look like an SNES...because that's all its good for.

[SPhrog @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

I'd be more impressed if they managed to squeeze a cartridge slot and a functioning Game Boy Color processor and screen on the lid so I could actually play my old gameboy games on the DS :(

[Matt @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

I still have my game boy from the mid 90's :)

[Chris @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

I've still got my original GameBoy from '89 or whenever it was they first came out.. it even works! ..sometimes.

[Zach @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

That's pretty cool but didn't the original GB and the GB Pocket boot with "Nintendo" inside a rounded rectangle? Oh! *snap snap snap*

[maurik willemse @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

I want a NDS more every day!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rare Hare @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Zach.. actually, the Nintendo logo it booted with was *not* inside the oval shape. and in some games it *also* booted with the Game Boy logo.

*oh snap*

/pwned.

[Scott @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Ahhhh The Game Boy, good times.

[Fergie @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

To mr nuclear the ds is great and so is nintendo. They do something different all sony do is the same old thing over and over again. Pretty damn boring there

[Mr nuclear @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Thats all good Fergie : ) and your opinion is very much valid, I am a DS fan, I love Sony but am not at all feeling the PSP. For me nintendo are ALL about gaming and thats what I expect from a gaming machine ...

,... GAMES, PLAIN AND SIMPLE : )

Just so EVERYONE knows that comment ( POST 14 )was only for that IIIIDIOT FOOL ( post 6 )

[David @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

"To mr nuclear the ds is great and so is nintendo. They do something different all sony do is the same old thing over and over again. Pretty damn boring there"

Are you ignorant?...

Sony had the balls to stand up to Nintendo in a market they have dominated since well...since the very first Game Boy was introduced. Not only that, but they are standing their ground. The REASON Nintendo bothered to come out with the DS is because Sony scared them a bit. How can you say the PSP is same old same old...?

[Spence @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

I like it, I'd pay a few quid for that sticker.
at the moment I just have some yukky tartan sticker I found in my room.

[ez @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

If you had some functioning buttons or maybe a funtioning screen, I would be impressed, but this is nothing.