{"id":7023,"date":"2022-09-14T11:37:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T09:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/14\/the-nintendo-ds-was-more-than-just-a-console-its-part-of-my-family-history\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T09:37:53","slug":"the-nintendo-ds-was-more-than-just-a-console-its-part-of-my-family-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/14\/the-nintendo-ds-was-more-than-just-a-console-its-part-of-my-family-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nintendo DS was more than just a console \u2013 it\u2019s part of my family history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the games writer\u2019s house move drags on, he seeks solace in old handheld consoles. But one held a surprise \u2026<\/p>\n<p>As a result of a house move that grew more complicated with every passing day, I have spent another couple of weeks in the barbaric situation of not having a gigantic TV to play games on. So I have continued to seek solace in storage boxes containing handheld consoles of the past \u2013 specifically, this time, an old Nintendo DSi and assorted cartridges.<\/p>\n<p>This machine was mainly used by my kids more than a decade ago, when they were aged between six and 11, so the bag is full of loose games such as Nintendogs, Eco Creatures: Save the Forest, Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop and Catz \u2013 games that hold no interest for a man in his 50s, and whose spelling offends me.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/sep\/14\/the-nintendo-ds-was-more-than-just-a-console-its-part-of-my-family-history\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3d5b537ca033f467d28e5362bc2b35d7cf92bc63\/0_2350_3712_2227\/master\/3712.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b590c5fd09099e51ed9dc92c773bdc29\" title=\"The Nintendo DS was more than just a console \u2013 it\u2019s part of my family history\" \/>As the games writer\u2019s house move drags on, he seeks solace in old handheld consoles. But one held a surprise \u2026<br \/>\nAs a result of a house move that grew more complicated with every passing day, I have spent another couple of weeks in the barbaric situation of not having a gigantic TV to play games on. So I have continued to seek solace in storage boxes containing handheld consoles of the past \u2013 specifically, this time, an old Nintendo DSi and assorted cartridges.<br \/>\nThis machine was mainly used by my kids more than a decade ago, when they were aged between six and 11, so the bag is full of loose games such as Nintendogs, Eco Creatures: Save the Forest, Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop and Catz \u2013 games that hold no interest for a man in his 50s, and whose spelling offends me. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the games writer\u2019s house move drags on, he seeks solace in old handheld consoles. But one held a surprise \u2026 As a result of a house move that grew more complicated with every passing day, I have spent another couple of weeks in the barbaric situation of not having a gigantic TV to play &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/14\/the-nintendo-ds-was-more-than-just-a-console-its-part-of-my-family-history\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Nintendo DS was more than just a console \u2013 it\u2019s part of my family history<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}