The DS Life: Multiplayer
by Eric Caoili 
on Aug 29th 2007 10:00PM
The DS Life is a weekly feature in which we scour the known world for narrative images of Nintendo's handheld and handheld gamers. If you have a photo and a story to match it with, send both to
thedslife at dsfanboy dot com.
You don't always have to be playing the same game to share an experience ...
Two friends sit side-by-side, Kate on the right, wearing a
blue shirt and playing with an arctic-white Game Boy Advance, and Allie on the left, dressed in a patterned top and handling a fuchsia GBA. Thin, adolescent arms brush against each other as the girls tap the face buttons and click the shoulder triggers. One of them laughs or yelps, and the other pauses her game to look over and catch what just happened.
A favorite song plays on the
iPod situated between them, snaking up the
headphone cord and halving itself to deliver messages in mono to the two girls. Kate and Allie share the earbuds the same way they divvy a pack of Twix bars, a pair of friendship bracelets, or their best-kept secrets -- one apiece.
The audio seeps out of the minature loudspeakers, whispering the words they should sing to themselves and giving their feet a rhythm to tap to. Unpracticed, their voices are off-key, but the two hardly notice.
