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Casual gaming on the Nintendo DS and DSi

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Let’s face it, we all need that time during the week (or month when we are busy) when we can just sit back and take our mind off things and relax. As you have grown older you may have found that it gets more difficult for you to get into video games and have found that you lose patience with them very quickly. Does that mean that folks like us should just forget about video games all together? Thankfully we do not.

Nintedo has come up with a fun gaming handheld device that is built around the very idea of casual and interactive gaming: the Nintendo DS.

Nintendo DS platform provides a casual and interactive experience to many non-gamers

Nintendo DS platform provides a casual and interactive experience to many non-gamers

You don’t need to have dozens of hours to kill in order to play a video game and enjoy it, all you need are a few minutes to spare and you can have a blast. By using a stylus you are no longer restricted to using  convenional left, right, backward, forward buttons, but instead you touch the screen with your stylus which tends to be a lot more practical and natural to people that are not hardcore gamers. (more…)