DS Daily: Staying power

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DS Daily: Staying power

Posted Apr 10th 2007 9:00AM by Jason Wishnov
Filed under: Features, DS Daily

High profile game releases come and go; we play the heck out of titles and usually move on. But sometimes, we don't. We go back, again and again, due to some unknown and mysterious force, beckoning at our wills.

Mario Kart DS and Clubhouse Games always seem to wind up in our DS after periods of relative inactivity; the casual nature of said games make it extremely easy to fit a round in whenever the mood strikes. Other games, however, such as Metroid Prime: Hunters, have gone untouched for months. Which titles do you guys play again and again, burning the midnight oil?

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1. I agree, Mariokart is always playable no matter how many times you've played it. I beat New Super Mario Brothers in a few days, but the stupid mini-games sometimes have me coming back.

Posted at 9:36AM on Apr 10th 2007 by jeff

2. If you havent touched your MP:H in months, can i have it? :) Yeah, a game i always come back to is Mario Kart, mainly because there are other kids on the bus with DS's and we all play, but sometimes we all play Diddy Kong. Also, onetime i hadnt gotten a new game for a while, so I erased my Mario and Luigi partners in time data and started over.

Posted at 9:53AM on Apr 10th 2007 by Spencer

3. If you havent touched your MP:H in months, can i have it? :) Yeah, a game i always come back to is Mario Kart, mainly because there are other kids on the bus with DS's and we all play, but sometimes we all play Diddy Kong. Also, onetime i hadnt gotten a new game for a while, so I erased my Mario and Luigi partners in time data and started over.

Posted at 9:54AM on Apr 10th 2007 by Spencer

4. I always seem to come back to playing Jump Ultimate Stars and Advance Wars DS

Posted at 9:54AM on Apr 10th 2007 by Schuyler

5. Are You Ready? 3 2 1 GO!

Posted at 10:30AM on Apr 10th 2007 by hvnlysoldr

6. Tetris!

Tetris DS is best tetris ever. Believe me as somebody who played original tetris of (and in) 1984/5 ;-)

Posted at 10:42AM on Apr 10th 2007 by Ihar `Philips` Filipau

7. Clubhouse Games by far.

Posted at 11:40AM on Apr 10th 2007 by strider_mt2k

8. With the exception of a short break, I've had a DS since launch. And, I don't have a single game that wasn't bought less than about six weeks ago. I play and trade...just the way I do it.

SG

Posted at 11:41AM on Apr 10th 2007 by Service_Games

9. Cooking Mama always ends up back in my DS when I need a break from my currnt game. I have to get gold coins on every single recipe! ;)

Posted at 11:47AM on Apr 10th 2007 by Sarah

10. *current

Posted at 11:48AM on Apr 10th 2007 by Sarah

11. "#5> Are You Ready? 3 2 1 GO!"

AMEN to that!! Elite Beat Agents always keeps getting me back

Posted at 12:16PM on Apr 10th 2007 by Jose C.

12. Advance Wars: Dual Strike. I'll be playing this game when I'm a brain in a vat.

Posted at 2:56PM on Apr 10th 2007 by rasputnik

13. Elite Beat Agents and Sonic Rush are the ones that I always end up playing the most.

Posted at 3:08PM on Apr 10th 2007 by phanboy_iv

14. I, too, will go back to Tetris frequently (though I initially had my gripes about the infinite spin and the occasional spotty network connection), as it's fun to even watch others duke it out if you've been knocked out early.

In my two-DS household, games like this, Clubhouse, Meteos, and Magnetica are staples. However, one game that's really surprised me in how much I'll obsess over has been Metroid Prime Pinball. Fun tables to replay (though I'd love just one more non-boss table), and there's always some aspect of the game I keep feeling I want to practice.

Posted at 4:42PM on Apr 10th 2007 by Kevin

15. HHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elite Beat Agents will haunt me for the rest of my days. One of the best games I've ever played by far.
Tetris sees a fair bit of playtime beyond it's regular life. Also if I've got DS toting buddies kickin' around then I've always got Bomberman Land Touch ready for some multiplayer action.

Posted at 6:18PM on Apr 10th 2007 by Nik

16. I have been playing MKDS and Tetris almost non-stop since they were released. And I don't think I'm gonna stop so soon.

Posted at 8:47PM on Apr 10th 2007 by Wilerson

17. Mario Kart all the way. Battle mode, particularly on the DS and haunted house arenas, is brilliant fun - even against CPU opponents. Falling off the edge of the level, blowing up balloons, and stealing them from opponents adds a ton of fun to the mix.

Posted at 11:06PM on Apr 10th 2007 by Kefka

18. Yoshi's Island DS Ownz My Soul

Posted at 11:30PM on Apr 10th 2007 by drphang

19. For me the game I keep coming back to is ZooKeeper. I don't want to even imagine how many hours my wife and I have put into that game, trying to beat the highscore of each other.

FYI - my high score on the 6 min game is: 5,416,680

Posted at 8:42AM on Apr 11th 2007 by natureboy46

20. Tetris DS owns my soul. I'm always playing a new game, but wherever I got I take Tetris with me in case somebody want to throw down with me, or I get the urge to drop some blocks solo.

Posted at 1:02PM on Apr 11th 2007 by Auston

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