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The DS Life is a weekly feature in which we scour the known world for narrative images of Nintendo's handhelds and handheld gamers. If you have a photo and a story to match it with, send both to thedslife at dsfanboy dot com.

Make the most out of what little warmth the autumn months haven't stolen yet. Grab your portable system, find a place outside where no one can bother you while you play, and enjoy these dwindling days when you can still afford to leave your coat at home. These weeks never stay still for too long, and before you know it, Halloween is long forgotten and there's no more Thanksgiving dinner to look forward to. Evenings creep in at 6PM, and the cold -- oh, the cold!

You spend an extra minute shivering in your car while waiting for the engine to warm up, visible puffs of breath fogging up the windows until the damn defrost finally starts working. Chips of snow sneak into your shoes somehow, despite your best defenses, melting and leaving your socks wet. Week nights are spent staying in and watching television, and you walk around the house with a comforter draped around you like blanket royalty.

So play with your DS outside now, while you still can!

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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.

If there's anything that closes summer, it's the clement passing of August, the noblest of the middle months. Families have their last barbecues, Jerry Lewis interrupts our channel surfing to remind us about muscular dystrophy, and custodians pull blue, creased tarpaulin over neighborhood pools. Labor Day rewards us with an extended weekend, and then just like that, summer is over.

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JoystiqThe DS Life: Summer's last throes originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Say what you will about Majesco's Furu Furu Park, but it's got taste. Taito and 505 Games picked some fantastic games to adapt into minigame versions. If everyone made minigames based on stuff like Cameltry, we would never have a problem with minigames.

We thought it would be useful to post the full list of included games, because we hadn't seen it yet. If at least five of these are fun, we'll consider the game a winner. Arkanoid can't possibly be non-fun, so that's one in their favor!

In our bleak world of cancelled Pocky & Rocky sequels, we must take what we can get. And at the moment what we can get is a Pocky & Rocky-themed shooting minigame. We can smile a little, thinking that there's still some Pocky & Rocky in the world.

[Via press release]

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JoystiqE307: Furu Furu Park minigame list originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Furu Furu Park, Taito's self-referential minigame collection, is coming to the US courtesy of Majesco. Normally, we're all GRR TOO MANY MINIGAMES. But this one's got Arkanoid bits in it, so it gets a pass.

In other words, Taito has figured out the winning formula for making us care about a minigame collection: well-designed gameplay making it look like old games. It may even be fun, with games like Super Karate (in which you waggle karate moves), Safe Cracker (The Wiimote becomes your, uh, combination lock dial!) and Bubble Bobble (which is Bubble Bobble!) Man, that version of Bubble Bobble looks sharp.

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He's a vampire.One of those wonderful joys that humans can't quite classify is building a really, really sweet roller coaster. Many games have provided for this need in the past, but now EA's promising Theme Park DS might allow us that satisfaction anywhere we so choose.

This in-depth interview reveals plans for country-themed parks, Wi-Fi visitation of other people's creations, a new negoiations feature, and more. Also included are some new screens and even a short little trailer.

Is anyone else oddly excited by this game? We plan to build an incomplete roller coaster, and make our friends repeatedly and wildly careen to their deaths at every opportunity. As any true gamer should.

JoystiqTheme Park DS interview originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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EA has issued out the first screenshots for the upcoming Theme Park DS. A port of the PC game, there are few details still on the features this port will have. So, we're still in the dark on the game's features, but at least we now have some screens of the game to gawk at. We've included a hand full of them into the post, after the break.

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JoystiqFirst screens for Theme Park DS originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you're one who enjoys their Wednesday nights in the form of watching South Park, perhaps sipping on a cup of hot Earl Grey, then you undoubtedly caught last night's episode featuring show staple Eric Cartman and his attempts to get his hands on the Wii. His desperation for the console -- something we know all too well here -- went so far that he attempted to freeze himself in order to instantaneously time travel to November 19th for the console's release.

Instead, things went wrong and Cartman found himself frozen for some 500+ odd years -- to a future where atheists were at war and somehow sea otters evolved to the point where they could talk and use assault rifles. Sadly, the episode is to-be-continued, so before we can see Cartman get his hands on a Wii -- which we assume will be next week's ending -- we're just going to have to wait.

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Majesco's Dino Master charges players with playing God, much like the way John Hammond did when creating his Jurassic Park. Upon digging for, and finding, dinosaur fossils, the player will use them to clone a certifiable cornucopia of carnivorous and omnivorous beasts and, like any other person who would manage to accomplish a feat often dreamed of in Sci-Fi films, pit them in combat to the death. The game will feature over 100 real species of dinosaur, multiplayer for up to 2 players via wireless link-up, and over 35 fighting techniques to discover.

[Thanks Sense!]

JoystiqDinosaurs battle it out on the DS originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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