What's a game that got you into owning a Nintendo DS?

[deadpixel01]

Pokémon Soulsilver, I got it and DS as a birthday/christmas gift as a kid!

Same here, SoulSilver was my first DS game.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I don't *own* a Nintendo DS, but both Pokemon: Black and White and Scribblenauts were the games that made me want to look into emulation for it.

I just had way too much of a blast summoning Cthulhu to solve the most mindless of tasks... And, now that I think about it, both of those games involve reducing literal gods to pet status XD

 

[Retro Doomer]

I personally don't remember anymore,but probably Either Worms 2 or Star Wars the Complete Saga but i really forgot,i really wasted my NDS days as i never bought a Mario or Pokemon Game on it,it was simply not on my radar as a kid and if i want to buy that stuff now like Pokemon i have to be rich wich i am not.

 

[GeoHikari]

Obviously, Dragon Quest 6.

Nothing against the original Super Famicom version, who is released only in Japan but avaliable to play with english patches on emulators, and get a huge sucess who continues today, but the DS version - in my opinion - can be the definitive version of the game, like the GBA version of Final Fantasy 6.

In the time of the release, in both Japan and the West, Square Enix done few modifications for the DS version, with few of them don't made fans happy. One of the small disadvantages of the version is the removal of recruitment of the specific Infamous Monsters with the Monster Master Vocation(who appeared in other variation, called Monster Wrangler, on the R HD version of DQ3). In the Super Famicom version, only few of them are recruitable due for the RAM of the cartidge, but the invited ones dones more fun and variation of the game, but on DS version is not possible to have one Infamous Monster because there none of them and in their place is added the Monster Buddies, who is recruitable as separate characters and all of them can be inserted into Vocations, giving more time to grind them in every Vocation(as the Buddies also can't be Hero, like the other besides the protagonist). Majority of these Monster Buddies are from The Slime Family. The other disavantages is no other than the english version, who continued with the localization of some names into others with few funny verbs, and becomes a tradition of the metaseries today(even on Dragon Quest XI S).

But the greatest vantage of DS Dragon Quest 6 is the inclusion of the Party Chat option, as the US version of DS DQ4 strangely removes this. But be ready for humorous dialogues!

The Dragon Quest 6 on DS is created on the same right to fun as the GBA version of Final Fantasy 6. With easy adjustements, a small increase of difficulty, and the use of Zoom between the two worlds(is all of them are half explored), the recreated version is better than the original, but the version is not perfect due for the mentioned disavantages.

 

[koutameoshifan27]

dragon quest 9. my best friend had a copy when i was really young and she let me play it. i loved it, and at some point my mom got me a dsi and a copy of the game for myself. i still have the game as well as the dsi and i treasure them greatly<3

 

[Riveler]

The game that made me look towards the handheld gaming for the first time was... Electroplankton.

Then, I've bought a DS bundle with New Super Mario Bros. back in 2009. Since then, I decided to embark on this new and smaller adventure.

 

[DrunkGecko]

When I was a kid I got a DS so I could play Pokemon

 

[Bluewyne]

For me, I had to have a NDS so I could play Pokemon Diamond when it released, but I also coveted Mario Kart DS and Jump Ultimate Stars which I saw my friends play on the bus.

 

[ookamij64]

Sadly didn't have access to a DS console until way after the release of the 3DS so I'm unsure if this would count but my first DS game turned out to be Pokemon White. Enjoyed it a lot more than I initially expected of it. Even with most of the older generations of critters locked until post game, the story was pretty engaging and fun. Liked it so much, I got the sister version and the sequel(s) as well.

But as far as wanting a DS back in those days goes, anything Pokemon and I was super stoked to get myself a DS.