What games are must haves? I just got like $150 is giftcards for Christmas from relatives so I think I' m gonna grab the DS and a game. I get paid this Friday too after just getting a rather large raise so I' ll have a decent amount to spend. Right now I really want the Final Fantasy III remake. I know Castlevania is a must own. Other than that I really never looked into it. I mainly want good RPGs but I' m open to anything.

You didn' t already have one?

I' ve never had a DS. Last handheld I had was a Gameboy Advance.

Super Mario 64 DS
New Super Mario Brothers
Metroid Prime Hunters
Sonic Rush
Final Fantasy III
Resident Evil: Deadly Silence
Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble
Mega Man ZX

When I had a DS I was really surprised at how good Super Mario Bros. was. I don' t even like platformers that much, but this is my favorite 2d mario game.

yeah, majik already said it all, but if it was me i would just get Mario 64 and New Super Mario Bros.

Hmm... now I' m considering getting a PS2 and the games I missed on that instead... Damn it. It' s a tough choice.

Hmm... now I' m considering getting a PS2 and the games I missed on that instead... Damn it. It' s a tough choice.

Why would you do that when 2/3 of those games sequals are coming to 360?

As Majik said, new Super Mario bros.

I love Mario Kart as well, mostly because it' s now online. Mario Kart multiplayer was always awesome. NSMB is worth the money for the mini game susing the stylus alone.

Hmm... now I' m considering getting a PS2 and the games I missed on that instead... Damn it. It' s a tough choice.

Do that.

And you can buy for ex FF12,Rogue galaxy and upcoming God of war 2

can u ad to that gift cerft and buy a psp instead , today it' s a much much better choice than DS specialy if you haven' t owned psone back in the day...

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin easily one of my favorite Castlevania' s next to SOTN.
New Super Mario Bros. obviously
Mario Kart DS
Meteos is fun as well, but not a must have.

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can u ad to that gift cerft and buy a psp instead , today it' s a much much better choice than DS specialy if you haven' t owned psone back in the day...

PSP is dead to me.

PSP is dead to me.

I wish I kept my psp for FF Tactics

Get a PS2. The DS is nice, but PS2 has some awesome exclusive titles. Not to mention, DS Lite (the only one worth getting IMO) is more expensive. You can get a $90 PS2 & $60 worth of games.

$60 worth of old PS2 games is hours and hours of gametime. Almost everything from about 2004 back is in the $10-15 dollar range, & there' s alot of them, so that should keep you busy for quite a while.

can u ad to that gift cerft and buy a psp instead , today it' s a much much better choice than DS specialy if you haven' t owned psone back in the day...

Thats why the DS has sold 20,000,000+ and the psp has sold what?

Well apparently the PS2 no longer exists. I' ve looked everywhere in every store in both the Fort Lauderdale and Jacksonville area and nobody carries them. EB and Gamestop have used ones but that' s it. I' m not the type of person that buys used hardware so that' s not an option for me.

I can' t believe that they are completely gone! Is Sony so desperate to sell PS3s that they have pulled all the PS2s off store shelves? I mean the PS3 is EVERYWHERE. I could walk in to any store and get one but I really don' t want to fork over that much money for a system that currently ha a crap line up of games just to play last gen games.

This sickens me. It' s all I wanted for my birthday and Sony has crushed me.

The US isn' t cool enough for PS2s so they sent them all here.

I bought a DS originally for my wife at Christmas, and now I am the one who can' t seem to put it down.

The screen is bright and clear, which I like, and the bottom touch sensitive screen works amazingly well with the games.

I love the DS, and will for sure be getting a lot more games for it now that I' m hooked.

Im in the same boat as canadagamer - bought the girlfriend a coral pink DS (to stop me nabbing it this xmas) and I am allready buying games for it and sneaking the odd hour or so on it.

She loves it, and has never " been a gamer " before. She was totally non-plussed about my psp when I had it, it meant nothing to her. Even teh wii she dismissed as " fun for a little while"

Now I' m considering a lite for my studio desk drawer... not had this much fun since my first gameboy (the original grey brick) which I got at launch! (followed closely by my neo-geo pocket)