DS Daily: When do you pick up and play?

by David Hinkle on Mar 21st 2007 9:00AM

When do you get time to play?

Seriously, with things so hectic in our own lives here (you try being chained to a laptop!), we can only imagine what kind of daily responsibilities you have. So, we were wondering exactly when and where you get the time to whip the DS out and have some fun?

There's already one hour set aside every week for you to play with us, but aside from that, when do you find time to play? Hopefully it's not at every red light on when you're out driving ...

Tags: ds, dsd, dslite, lite, nintendo, nintendods, nintendodslite

Reader Comments (12)

For me, its when I am on the school bus, because two other kids have DSs, and during about half of my classes. :)

I am lucky to pick up and play my DS Lite even once a week. With work and our first child on the way, there's very little time for games. Plus, my wife tells me I need to grow up and stop playing video games!

mostly right before i turn off the light going to sleep. (if i dont read a book)

I usually play abt 30 to 45 minutes after I shower at night around 10 PMish. Always when my boyfriend is not visiting. :D

I don't have much time to do real hard core game-playing :(

I wouldn't mind trying game night but I have no clue on IRC on a mac.

Not as much lately. Work/school/random Gamecube game have consumed me. I have both Wii and PS3 and I play Cube? What's going on?

On the DS lite and GBA SP:
-When I get home from work 10-20 mins.
-Alternate btw reading a book or one of the portables before I sleep 30-45 mins
On the Wii
30-45 mins w/the Family on the weekends

I live in Berkeley, CA and commute to San Francisco, CA for work on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) which means that I'm stuck with the huddled masses for about an hour and fourtyfive minutes or so every day. As long as I can find a seat, I'm playing my DS.

The biggest problem with this is that the games that I play have to be playable in 30-45 minute alotments of time, sometimes less. Longer RPGs are basically totally impossible, and even a game like Metroid Prime: Hunters has too long of levels for me to completely finish one before I get off the train and I don't really have time to play it when I get home. Sure, I could leave the game paused and pick it up the next day, but you'd be surprised how much you forget about what your in-game goals were in 12 hours.

On the bus going home, every work day. At night, when the missus and the kids are in bed, and on lazy Sundays.

@katherine: If you don't have an IRC client on your mac, just google "web based irc" and you should be able to find a web based applet that will allow you to join any IRC room.