It's Alf! Remember Alf? He's back ... in birthday form.
With our one-year anniversary event for the Wii in full swing and Thanksgiving only hours away, we nearly forgot that today marks the third year since the Nintendo DS made its debut in North America. Can you believe it's been three years already? Three years since we first brought the GBA's successor home! Three years since Vicarious Visions tricked us into buying Spider-Man 2!
In its three years on the market, our dual-screened handheld has gone through one hardware revision, dozens of color variations and limited edition bundles (some of which were actually accidentally released in the US), and about twenty million Mega Man games. The system's software library has managed to cover just about every conceivable genre, even creating a few new ones to expand its money-printing capabilities.
We plan to celebrate the portable's birthday by drawing misshapen cakes and genitalia in PictoChat, just like we did during our first few hours of DS ownership. How about you?
[Thanks, Llamapalooza!]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-21-2007 @ 10:24PM
Joshua said...
I beat Trauma Center: Under the Knife this morning, but that was on my DS Lite...Maybe I should start up my original DS again...
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11-22-2007 @ 1:39PM
Chase said...
I just bought Trauma Center last night. What a coinky dink. And speaking of which, I soon realized why I am not a surgeon. ;x
Oh, and happy birthday, Nintendo DS! I combined ideas and made you a penis cake. Enjoy! ;o
11-22-2007 @ 7:28PM
Joshua said...
A "coinky dink"? What is THAT?
11-22-2007 @ 3:13AM
sergioalb64 said...
Hey! I tried to remind you of this, back on the Mega Man anniversary post; no recognition for my comment, eh?
Either way, what matters is you didn't forget! It would've been quite embarassing, really :)
Here's for three more years...or thirty!
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11-22-2007 @ 9:15AM
dg10050 said...
Hmm, interesting coincidence. Yesterday my DS Lite's battery died and I was unable to find the charger. I was forced to use my DS Phat all day instead. Do you think the DS Phat hid the DS Lite's charger because it was jealous? :P
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11-22-2007 @ 1:22PM
Drew said...
Wooowww, 3 years already. I remember when I first got the DS the Christmas that it came out around. haha, I remember I first went on Pictochat, and was typing in a bunch of letters and I was so amazed. But then I remembered I could draw stuff, and I went all crazy and was drawing hamburgers and whatnot like in the ads XD
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11-22-2007 @ 5:43PM
Brello said...
I do remember drawing a cocknballs on pictochat to my roomie's DS the first night I bought it. For shame, but I'll admit it.
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