webbie Bud

Club Nintendo . . . if it works in Canada, and is even 10% as cool as Japan's.

Video game music wouldn't be such a huge market if people didn't listen to it. =) Many fullsize console games have great soundtracks and, despite the 8-bitted-ness of them, there are plenty of excellent portable game soundtracks, too.

Golden Sun was one of the best, IMO. Not DS, I know, but proof that, even in the GBA stage, there was some great stuff.

Other DS greats include Hotel Dusk, Phoenix Wright, The World Ends With You and Electroplankton in which, of course, you create the soundtrack.

Music games like Elite Beat Agents and Taiko No Tatsujin are naturals for great soundtracks, obviously.

Also, most folks don't listen through headphones or plug the sound through better speakers to hear the full range of sounds included. The little 1 CM 'speakers' in the unit don't do the music justice.

DS games aside . . . half of the music I listen to at work IS game music: Zelda (64/GC/Wii), Resident Evil 4, Second Sight, Killer7, Grim Fandango, Tales of Symphonia, Zack and Wiki, Beyond Good and Evil, Morrowind/Oblivion, Ecco, Prince of Persia. Great stuff to zone out to.

WANT!

*prays to gamer Gods* Pleeeeeeze let it be a public bundle for Christmas '07!

@1: We bought one of these:
http://www.coregamer.com/coregamer/coregamer.asp?cmd=detail&prodID=61

I've seen 'em with more generic "hip" and "cool" insert designs, too.

The search for the perfect case was long and arduous, but this one rocks. The DS ain't that much bigger, and is protected from klutziness and fingerprints.

Oh, SWEET! Rhythm Tengoku was the best import I've ever made, so this stuff looks awesome, but I'm sure it looks awesome to me and, like, six other people in Canada . . . =)

My first Zelda experience was actually two Zelda experiences nearly back-to-back: late to the game playing Ocarina of Time, I had only a few months to wait for the release of Majora's Mask.

The magic of those games together — the worlds, the stories, the characters, the emotion, and most definitely the music — locked me into Zelda-ness for life.

I moved backward and forward along the timeline after that, and found I didn't enjoy the lesser-bit titles or handhelds quite as much. Tho' the cuteness of Minish Cap often made me giggle like a schoolgirl.

After the Cel-da shock wore off, I thoroughly enjoyed Wind Waker, and played through that twice, and have been trying to stretch the Twilight Princess experience as long as I can in anticipation of Phantom Hourglass.

12211 is shown in their screenshot (lower right corner), but the site currently (20070529 • 0830 PST) shows 122112 in the same spot. Curiouser.

Haha #20 re: Tetris! =)

#3 - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Not the ending sequence, but the end boss(es). Having spent all the extra time to collect all 27 masks meant that I was imbued with ridiculous power in Fierce Diety Link, and Majora wasn't any amount of challenge at all to squelch.

#2 - Beyond Good & Evil. Amazing game. Horrid ending (post-credits), only because it was such a cliffhanger, with NO hope of a sequel in sight. =/

#1 - Rayman: Raving Rabbids. I'll try not to *SPOIL* anything, but as one who who tried to follow the light storyline in between the minigames, the ending was depressing as heck. =/

Eh? Victoria, BC, Canada. =)

I only *just* found the Triforce in Redd's a few weeks ago, and now this! Exciting! =)

Dangit! Beaten to the punch! =/ I *knew* I should've rushed my conceptual idea into production . . .

http://gallery.happydesigns.com/?special=ds_lite_eh

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