When you're praying before bed tonight, don't forget to thank Mr. Iwata for gifting humanity with this monument of human creativity, innovation and ingenuity. A device that has sparked billions of cherished bonding experiences between friends, siblings, parents and children, and will continue to for as long as the consoles continue to function (which will likely be centuries due to how masterfully they are engineered). We would be measurably worse off as a society if it weren't for this invention, along with the rest of the inventions of the legendary Satoru Iwata
>>695188891Remember how they tried to market the DS to salarymen etc by advertising it as some kind of PDA? There were so many puzzle and edutainment "games" for it.
>>695189186It was smartphone games before smartphones. It worked. When I went to buy one of the Professor Layton games I met a bunch of much older women who were also there to buy it for themselves.
>>695188891https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiPX3qSqTKAi miss playing pokemon with my friends x
>>695188891>I am five days younger than the DSWoah, cool
>>695188891My parents bought me a gameboy instead since they were dirt cheap at that point
>>695188891>IwataIt still stings so badly bros….
>>695188891Looked like such a joke next to the PSP, everyone thought it was gonna get Gamecube'd.Then Nintendogs happened.
>>695191319Happy early birthday anon!! :)
>>695193465Thanks. I never expected my life to be so empty by this point
>very few oldfags showing up on this momentous day to share their memories of this time two decades agoThis place is just completely dead, isn't it?
>>695188891DS Download play was the bombdozens of long bus rides with group Mario Kart
>>695193428That was amazing to see in real time. I know plenty of people who still seethe that it happened.
I went looking for my screencap of /v/ discussing the DS launch...couldn't find it. ;_;
>>695188891>all of those memories I had with the DSfuck me, it all came flooding back.
