I have major Nintendo DS Lite lust. I'm not sure why, but I do.
On Friday I went to Best Buy at home with Dan-poo, Erin-chan, and Benjy and played the demo version of March of the Minis on the DS Lite there. Baaad decision. It was a heck of a lot of fun, even if I had some trouble managing the stylus. Today in lab while I was waiting for the fluorescence spectrometer lamp to warm up, I browsed online for DS stuff. If the local Best Buy around here has a sample DS on display, I'm going to go on Friday during my lunch break and play whatever game they have on it.
I'm really thinking about asking my parents for one for Christmas, but there are a few problems.
1) Money: Is $130 for the hardware + additional $100 for games and a protective case worth it? $200+ is a lot of money, even if it's not coming from my non-existent pockets. *angst*
2) It's a video game system: I dunno if my parents would even consider buying it. *grump* They also spend $95 every year to keep my website running, so. But maybe they would buy one for me, since I generally don't ask for much.
3) Time: Do I realistically have time to enjoy it without ruining my grades? Maybe, since I'll (hopefully) be travelling to interview and stuff. But it's more likely that I'll be playing it in my apartment on the couch while I'm watching TV and avoiding homework. *think*
4) Novelty factor: Since it's something I've been thinking about lately, maybe I'll get over this phase in a few weeks. I tend to go through wild-obsession-phases with certain things, and maybe this is just one of them. *worry*
5) Music: Ideally, I'd like to be able to play MP3/WMA music on it, too. I saw in the news that Nintendo Europe's releasing such an add-on. Will it come out in America, too? *lalala?*
What to do, oh, what to do? *wonders*
Posted by amoeboid at November 28, 2006 9:15 PM