Nintendo DS, You Are 20 Years Old...

[@J.R.Unbound]

That intro noise almost made my heart disintegrate from nostalgia.

[@LikeWhyTF]

💯

[@thunderstar254]

0:00 begone bot 😈

[@Ice_2192]

That's the cool and weird part of the speakers of it. It's just standard stereo, but the sound is like its coming from 3 speakers from both sides.

[@MonsieurJimjams]

My stepfather passed away recently, and he bequeathed his DS to my 7-year-old son. He absolutely loves it, and it's a lovely thing for my boy to remember him by.

[@sparkypack]

My condolences 😔

[@MonsieurJimjams]

@@sparkypack Thank you, appreciated.

[@LikeWhyTF]

That’s awesome man, my pop has passed away and we loved playing the DS together - great generational tool

[@cameronc6114]

The DS was the ultimate Pokemon machine, hands down. RSE, FRLG, DPPt, HGSS, BW, B2W2, the Mystery Dungeon games, Pokemon Conquest... like, literally the sleeper golden age of Pokemon. I still miss playing Pokemon with the second screen for the menus.

[@The_MEMEphis]

I don't think it's much of a sleeper golden era a good chunk of the fan base thinks the DS era was the best pokemon era

[@Jormunguandr]

Pokémon ranger games 😊

[@jaberd100]

The DS definitely had the best Pokemon games. It had both HGSS and Platinum which are both considered to be the best Pokemon games ever. Emerald is also one of them but GBA had only one game that was considers the best while the DS had two. The DS is the only console that has more then one Pokemon game that is considered one of the best.

[@thunderstar254]

Sure and Usain bolt is literally the sleeper fastest man on earth

[@cory30j]

@@jaberd100a lot of people say the same about black and white 2 as well… 3 amazing titles tbh I like black and white a lot too but they’re not quite that level

[@pareman456]

Nintendo DS had the best Pokemon library.

[@999__]

Imagine how bad is it today.

[@dangychoice7800]

well it's more that Switch has the worst Pokemon library

[@NotScared]

I really liked all the 3ds games

[@rumanpal5634]

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​@@999__not really sword and shield, let's go games, snap,legend Arceus are really good and for s/v it's has some glitches that's it other than that everything is good bru

[@thecunninlynguist]

Christ this makes me feel old. I was sophomore in college. The game that sold me on the DS was... Lost in Blue. I was intrigued and fascinated on how they utilized the touch screen and other functions. I don't think it was released until a year after the DS launched but I got the DS at launch in anticipation for it ..plus I also got Mario 64 DS...the definitive version of the game

[@htsunmiku]

Not to make you feel even older but lost in blue sold me on the ds/gaming too when I saw my aunt playing it. It was one of my first game obsessions. (This was late 2000s. I wasn't alive when the ds originally released)

[@thecunninlynguist]

@htsunmiku lol! Your aunt is prob near my age if not a lil older

[@Raphtor13]

Loved Lost in Blue!

[@CocatGaming]

Wow. I can’t believe the Nintendo DS is 20 years old. That’s insane!!!

[@thecunninlynguist]

Time flies...soon it'll be 20 years since the 3DS...

[@tylerdenaro3365]

It's incredible 😍 🙌

[@AnthonyD1192]

That beginning jingle was a nice touch. I have to admit something and hope I don’t get angry people at me: I never owned a Nintendo DS. I know, this is a Nintendo based channel and I am a full Nintendo gamer, but there was something that amde me choose a PSP than a DS. It wasn’t until 2014 when my cousin convinced me to buy a 3DS for the pokemon games and I was starting college. I wished I had a DS during my middle and high school years to feel the experience I missed.

[@M0ving7arg37]

Star Wars Ep3 for DS was the goat. The space battles were very fun too.

[@AlessandroLoscueva]

Ahh, my first console ever made! Also, fun fact: the last DS game came 10 years ago.

[@gregorys9629]

I picked up a DS recently having missed out as a kid and it's still a blast to play today

[@HU-iv1ns]

Finally a long discussion with all you guys ❤

[@Junier-Hussein]

Amazing handheld with an incredible library 😊 Great video lads

[@TurkeyFaceX]

I feel old. I first got an original Gameboy late Elementary School. The DS wasn't a thing till late High School, almost college.

[@sparkypack]

People are generally considered young adults between 20 to 25. Everything outside of that range is unacceptable.

[@TurkeyFaceX]

@@sparkypack As a 38 year old man that still enjoys video games a few hours a week in what little free time I have... I am unacceptable.

[@sparkypack]

@@TurkeyFaceX The majority of people are unacceptable.. including me.. hahaha. Oh, and correction. It's from 22 to 24.

[@hoohoo431]

I got my DS Lite on my 6th birthday with NSMB. It was my first console ever. My brother had the PS2 but this was mine. I remember so many bad things about elementary school but that little clamshell brick always, ALWAYS made it better. Then the 3DS came. It got me through middle and high school. I'll never forget the fun I had.

[@jameskozy7254]

I was 4 in 2005. My older cousin had the original model DS. Got my DS lite a few years later. Played so much pokemon on that great console.

[@Poever]

Ho hum, I was 18 in 2005

[@Novorious]

The system that not only changed Nintendo forever, but predicted the future of gaming.

[@LockPickingPaws]

DS introduced me to Castlevania, and still have the DS trilogy sitting on my desk next to my 3ds. And Mario 64 just blew my mind, the game I played so much on 64 now can be played anywhere. Phantom Hourglass was amazing and so was Minish Cap which I first played on the DS. Never got to play Spirit Tracks so this video was a good reminder to look for it.

[@crocodude]

I still remember when I got my original DS when I was a kid. Well, a 20 year old kid. And now I’m an much older kid with back ache.

[@Badusername2000]

i just bought a DS lite, all i can do on it currently is pictochat because i havent bought my ez flash parallel yet, but im super excited to finally have a DS, never had one as a kid so i missed out on so much(my handheld experience goes gba--------switch), but right now seems to be the renaissance of the DS, lots of homebrew games, lots of videos covering it, so i got in just in time

[@dwightdixon8508]

DS was an innovative piece of hardware. GBA backwards compatibility made it 2 in 1 portable powerhouse and it was one of the few game systems I’ve ever preordered and I still have my CIB original launch DS to this day.

[@HoennMaster]

So many amazing memories on the DS. So many great games and my favorite Pokémon games are on the DS. One of my favorite consoles ever. I remember wearing out a section of the touch screen on my first DS from being too aggressive in Pokémon Ranger 😅

[@sonicatlas]

The DS was the next console after the Gamecube that I got caught up in the hype for. Ended up getting it with Mario 64 DS that Xmas in 04. Played the f outta that, the Prime Hunters demo, Megaman & Bass and Megaman Zero 3 that Xmas.

[@ignatiousmary8413]

The DS lite was my first Nintendo console in 2010 or 2011. I wish it didnt break :(

[@sparkypack]

No worries, we all get frustrated at some point and throw the console across the room.

[@geminijinxies7258]

It's been 20 years, and I can still smell its plastic shell.. The DS housed soo many different genres of games and lots of them are classics today! I also don't think games on smartphones would've been the same without the DS.

[@ty_sylicus]

Having grown up with an original GameBoy and PlayStation, I just can't imagine a world where the DS was my first handheld!!

[@CitrusArchitect]

Nintendo makes a lot of nostalgic content for people who grew up with the NES, SNES, and to an extent and 64. But I'm still dying for them to pray upon our DS nostalgia. Having grown up with the DS in middle school, i've been waiting for a very long time for them to make a classic console of it or port some of the games onto modern platforms. I will buy it all!

[@MikeAruba69]

20 years? That's crazy! I remember first discovering the Nintendo DS from a friend of mine back in the 5th grade. I still had my GBA SP. Meanwhile, my friend was the only kid in the whole school who had a DS along with Super Mario 64 DS. I was so mindblown at the time! Sadly, I didn't get one until 2 years later when the DS Lite came out. It was a Christmas gift. My first DS game was New Super Mario Bros. as well.

[@MajorasMask2010]

Twenty years old, wow, time sure does fly. Happy Anniversary to the DS. 🎉🎉🎉

[@ty_sylicus]

Feel the Magic was also one of my first DS games! I was in Korea around that time and was able to get a DS after a few weeks of trying.

[@ty_sylicus]

Oh! Just recalled that this and WarioWare were responsible for ruining my original DS screen (as I would pass it around the office).

[@thunderboargames8369]

Even after 20 years....TOUCHING IS FOREVER GOOD!!!!

[@charlotteperry6747]

I especially love the videos of you three together. The conversation was very funny!

[@Kniffel101]

Huh!? Avalon Code lists _Minako Adachi_ as composer in that clip at 24:00. She joined Game Freak in 2009, which is one year after Avalon Code released, and has since been working on Pokémon, HarmoKnight and is listed as "Special Thanks" in Pocket Card Jockey. So I'm intrigued now, Zion! =D Just learned that apparently she also composed all of Zelda Oracle of Ages and Seasons, according to VGMDB ("Zelda 30th Anniversary Collection")! =O For BW she did 2 musicals, Lostlorn Forest, a couple fanfares, and an arrangement of the Final Boss against N for the soundtrack release. In XY and the games since, it was always like half the soundtrack, way more than I could list individually! =P

[@ongakuwotabeta]

This lines up with the freakleaks, as while some of the music is in 2008 builds of BW, none of the mentioned songs were in there until sometime in 2009. The game freak leaks confirmed this

[@Kniffel101]

@ongakuwotabeta Or, you know, you just look at the soundtrack credits and related information...

[@ongakuwotabeta]

@@Kniffel101 True, but nothings more accurate than builds from internal servers that were stolen in this case.

[@SailorPalutena]

0:45 :O double "ooooh!" hahahahaha

[@Pietrothesquid]

Nintendo DS was my first Nintendo console and I had good times when I was a kid with it, happy 20th anniversary of our childhood

[@ty_sylicus]

I forced myself to play Super Mario 3D Land to 100% completely in 3D. It was the only game I ever played that way. The 3D on the orignal and DSi versions was frustrating as you had to hold the 3DS just right and steady.

[@dragoon1090]

What? DSi doesn't have 3D.

[@nancyswift8090]

RIP to all the Nintendogs that haven't been fed in 20 years. Also, did they really not mention Nintendogs at all?

[@sparkypack]

They are all safe at the online kennels.

[@GamerFunOriginallyAarush]

Happy 20th anniversary, Nintendo DS!

[@LW1996]

My mom got one for my brother and I in probably ‘05 when I was like 9. We were still obsessed with our GBA SPs. We had never even heard of the DS. I remember feeling like the kids with “uncles at Nintendo.” Thought we were really ahead of everyone. It came with Metroid Prime Hunters demo cartridges. I was amazed at the technology

[@bizaster]

You guys NEED to play Trials & Tribulations (the third Ace Attorney game)! In my opinion it’s the best game in the franchise

[@Naminski1a]

New Nintendo 3DS XL can plays Nintendo DS games like Mario Kart DS.

[@CharlesJacob-z2v]

Being a huge Looney Tunes fan, I got Duck Amuck DS game. You basically activate different mini games with Daffy by swiping and poking him and even closing the DS. An underrated gem in my book.

[@D0paminedip]

Today I found out the Nintendo ds is exactly one day older than I am... How did I never know?!

[@B0311Anakin]

I actually missed out on the DS! I had the GBA SP but didn't get another handheld until the 3DS was out. I did get DS games at that point and Mario Kart and Heart Gold were some of my favorites

[@LikeWhyTF]

Man I was counting down the days when the DS released as an enthusiastic middle schooler

[@ITSAHARDNUGLIFE]

20 years??? Sheeeeesh, lot of Mario 64, Metroid Prime Hunters Demo, a plethora of NES titles via the GBA slot as well as a certain volume of SpongeBob episodes, namely Jellyfish Jam and Pickles. And of course Link to The Past. Having Mario 64 on the go was 🔥...until seven years later when Link's spirit was released from the seal from the Chamber of Sages and saved Hyrule on 3DS in 2011, but that's...another story

[@Baxiljn]

This also means SM64DS is 20 years old, due to it being a launch title.

[@shjsj-bc2cj]

Man, i loved playing nsmb minigames, mkds, sm64ds with so many kids back in the day...

[@RetroRobyn69]

Zion!! Urgh I’ve missed him ❤

[@blackstar5867]

The ds was actually a birthday gift for me, just 4 months after it released ^_^

[@Thecassius]

I love the Nintendo DS and grew up with it just like Felix, although I don't hold it quite as dear as the GBA. While watching and mostly listening to this video I booted up Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and got through most of the remastered and remade DS levels, so nostalgic! Thank you NintendoLIfe for this chat!

[@DP3com]

I feel I played every DS game that I wanted to play but didn't spend as much time playing or completing a good portion of them, especially between 2008 - 2011 when I REALLY started to play a lot in the Xbox 360 online gaming ecosystem. The only times I found myself playing my DS during those years was on my commute to and from work via bus and/or train assuming I didn't doze off on the train ride in particular.

[@JimmyLazers]

How am I so old? I was supposed to stay young forever! Stupid potion

[@blind_gamer16]

I used to have a Nintendo DS growing up. I have Mario Kart DS and a few other games. Man, I really want to play it again one day.

[@preston_s.]

I played and replayed Metroid Prime Hunters so many times. Still very underrated, especially considering how advanced it was for the DS.

[@amphibiousRV]

I spent so much time at Shopko looking at games and Pokemon cards as a kid. Their selection was always worse than the Target that was only a mile or two away, but my dad loved Shopko, so I have a lot of memories there.

[@alilshellphish]

hahaha chicken run is superior! but chicken little is also an underrated classic

[@sparkypack]

not the chicken of truth?

[@warriorgex2004]

I was born the same year (2004) the DS came out, but eight months before it. I had plenty of memories playing on my brother's DS before it broke.

[@Htbaa]

I was a full on Sony fanboy when the DS came out. I went with the PSP as graphically the DS was like a decade behind. I eventually got a DSi XL like 9 months before the 3DS got announced/released. Felt like a sucker 😅. I only got an R4 card for the DSi and played several games. I think I only finished a DBZ game on it and played a bunch of Mario 64DS. Fast forward some years later I got a 3DSXL (later upgraded to the N3DSXL) and Wii U (big select of games in my possession for both consoles) and have been a Nintendo fanboy ever since. I play Xbox and since a week PlayStation again, but for me with Nintendo you can’t go wrong. I really should look into the DS library again. But then again I’ve got several hundreds of games in my backlog as well. One thing I’m impressed about my DSi XL is that the battery holds charge forever!

[@dash5933]

It was my second ever console, I also didn't understand what pictochat fully was till years later. We were also quite poor so it was my only gift that year from my whole family with Zookeeper.

[@Raphtor13]

I preordered my original DS and loved it right away. Urbz was the launch title I got but mostly played my GBA Pokemon games on it for quite a while. The one DS game I still play frequently today is Scrabble..lol - always liked word games from the time I was a kid. I recently pulled out my old DSi XL and have been playing it a lot between Switch games (just finished Echoes of Wisdom ..).

[@LittleLexi24]

Viva Piñata mentioned. Still coping that the two 360 games come to Nintendo Switch.

[@harry012197]

The first game I had for the ds was the sims 2 where you would run a hotel. Great game and Stellar soundtrack as well for how basic the system was, especially strange day and the managers suite.

[@memyselfishness]

I could be wrong, but I grew up going to Blockbuster (which is now the last Blockbuster in the world) and they had a few DS games for a bit.

[@austinkonkol2472]

Someone remembers Avalon Code! I remember getting it because I played the demo off the Nintendo Channel and found the enemy volleying mechanic very fun.

[@PAINt0theMAX]

Sleeping Dogs on Nintendo Switch, where are you?

[@blakeharvard5841]

I was a teenager when the DS Nintendo was released.

[@JTread2003]

I was 1 year old when it came out lol. I miss the menu ambience that they used to put on their consoles and handhelds, hearing that DS menu music just hits a certian way, so nostalgic. Also I swear Nintendo is missing a big opportunity by not putting those SM64 DS mini games on mobile. Imagine a collection of all of those games

[@scass1100]

My favorite niche DS game had to of been Lost Magic! Such an awesome game

[@Jormunguandr]

My ds lite is buzzing with happyness

[@ViciousFirearms]

Back when the DS was new my friend stepped on his top screen, completely breaking it in the process. He gave it to me but since I had a gameboy SP already I didn’t do anything with it and I think I threw it away eventually. If I knew what I know now back then I totally would of took the top screen off and used it as a gameboy. Oh well, at least I still have a ds lite and new 3ds xl.

[@antix995]

DRAGON QUEST 9! Best Dragon quest, possibly the best RPG on the DS.

[@jaukowarrant]

Wasn’t Nintendolife called vc-reviews when Nintendo DS came out? The PSP and DS was almost head to head in Japan and IGN did a very unfavorable coverage on the DS and claimed that the PSP was overwhelmingly more popular at launch.

[@dragoon1090]

I remember 20 years ago my mom took me into EB games and I got the silver DS right at launch. I was the coolest kid in school. I used to love that thing until the DS lite came out. I was 12 years old and spoiled. Metroid prime hunters first Hunt and feel the magic were my first games.

[@dash5933]

I've recently went back to my DS/3DS and got the games I missed from CEX as I only had Mario and Pokemon games.

[@mjdf122]

I’ve seen all from 1980-Now I have every console and tons of games what a life of gaming throughout the decades

[@otrapendejada]

This is funny cause when I applied to work for you guys I actually sent in a video talking about the DS phat and how I felt it to be the best and my memories of turning it on the first time.

[@therunningxfree]

Wow I got one of these for my birthday in 7th grade and just remembered the game Ping Pals. I don't think I've thought of that game in probably 18 years

[@treseancann1261]

Happy 20th anniversary to Super Mario 64 DS.

[@PikaLink91]

I can't play Ace Attorney prior to the 5th game. I tried going back to AA1 after beating 6, and the interface is just too archaic for me. Even for a visual novel with minimal gameplay, 5 and 6 introduced a lot of quality of life things that I just can't do without now. Also, Athena is no doubt my favorite character.

[@JCSA79V]

2:42 what the hell is that my local CeX

[@datalphalion]

No love for Contra 4… sad. But I suppose for these guys it makes sense, since Contra 4 never officially released in PAL regions.

[@dannyflaherty1403]

I listened to this while playing picross 3D on my dsi. Great game and great memories with this thing

[@AStupidID]

I want DS NSO so baddd

[@tinlunlau1]

I remember jump ultimate stars was a sick game for the DS

[@AstreaDevaul]

Appreciate the detailed breakdown! I need some advice: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?

[@Hilbuy1]

Professor Layton games are the best DS games I've played 👌

[@jaukowarrant]

I loved the DS but the first 6 months were rough. That launch line up was sparse. Ridge racer DS anyone? Thank goodness for Castlevania Dawn of Sorow.

[@jaukowarrant]

I showed up to work at McDonalds to ask my boss for the day off. I didn’t tell them it was to go buy the Nintendo DS.

[@OstianOwl]

I know y'all didn't just bring up the Super Mario 64 DS mini-games without even mentioning the Luigi casino mini-games that kickstarted many a gambling addictions. (Disclaimer: this a joke but gambling addictions are not.)

[@foreverfizz8]

I was 7 at the time, but I wasn't interested until my friends got a lite, then I got a lite also. Played so much Pokémon and Mario cart ds with friends

[@squidwardwithoutaclue]

Swear it was just yesterday. I've seen the commercials and then in first grade, some kids were playing outside the school with it. And I think it was the last year where it was allowed to take consoles to school 😂

[@JasonTKrewson]

You should add the Nintendo Life Chats to Apple Podcasts!

[@kathleendraves8016]

Shopko was the best store! 1:00

[@2810Mad]

Damn man...time flies.

[@Caolan114]

My memories with the DS It was not my first handheld that would be the GBA SP but I got a DS for christmas with Nintendogs and back then I had no understanding of wifi and the Internet and wireless so without any setup I opened pictochat thinking It was online and I left It open all night waiting for someone to join and someone did Being just a kid I had Nintendogs and that's all I had for a while but luckily I could still play GBA games on It and there were a lot of places selling cheap fake GBA games so I was still getting GBA games eventually I got mario 64 ds for my birthday and It felt more like a sequel than a remake and It got me through a lot of car journeys when we finally got Internet I would stay up late playing Mario Kart DS with my custom emblem that was a pokeball I also got Into pokemon battling online this was when games had Individual friend codes so I'd post my friend codes online for each game and have to add the same person across games

[@Leopez02]

Dear Nintenso DS you are 20 years old one of my all time favourite consoles of all time because it's my childhood's first Nintendo console that I've got when I was 6 or 7 years old kid I remember that birthday like a yesterday and my first DS games were New Super Mario Bros DS, Mario Party DS, Mario Kart DS, Mario & Luigi Bowser's inside Story, Metal Slug 7 and Pokemon Heartgold & Soulsilver, later I got Pokemon Diamond and Black they're my favourite DS games, but about of a DS games that I've never played, but always wanted they are Super Mario 64, Pokemon Platinum, Pokemon Black & White 2, Bleach games like 3rd Phantom, Blade of Fate, Flame Bringer and Dark Souls and Sonic Rush Adventure games, but i'm surprised to see Metroid game on a DS because I didin't knew that wow everyday you learn something new in games! I didin't had a DS eShop I wan't to know was it any good? Happy 20th anniiversary the best handheld ever made I still have and play with you! 🥰

[@araeden]

Happy birthday PictoChat. 🎉🎉

[@Cirwilius]

Una excelente consola

[@thierrys85]

I still remember getting it back then. 😅

[@ubercow6611]

Fellow American here, Sam's Club does exist