The 25 Best Nintendo DS Games Of All Time
Considering how ubiquitous and iconic the Game Boy had become over its roughly 15-year reign over the handheld gaming scene, the pressure was on Nintendo when it came time to launch a successor. How did Nintendo respond to that pressure? By following up the Game Boy with a family of handhelds that was even more successful, naturally. The Nintendo DS, with its novel dual-screen design, touchscreen controls, and N64-quality 3D visuals, burst onto the scene in 2004. It didn't take too long for the unique new clamshell handheld to garner a legion of fans, in large part due to a seriously impressive library. We've rounded up the best Nintendo DS games of all time--a list of 25 titles in alphabetical order.
Longtime Game Boy fans were perhaps a bit skeptical of the Nintendo DS at first, and we're sure that the handheld's backward-compatibility with GBA games helped to convert hesitant buyers. But thanks to a steady stream of great games and multiple clever revisions to the hardware--DS Lite, DSi, and DSi XL--the Nintendo DS had a remarkable six-plus-year run. Games that took advantage of its touchscreen and microphone were capable of creating unique gaming experiences, the first-party line-up was a showcase of imagination, and later models of the console streamlined the design to make the DS a pocket-friendly entertainment device to carry around town in your pocket.
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It's worth noting that the Nintendo DS family became the bestselling line of handhelds of all time, and it accomplished this while fighting off an impressive attempt by Sony's PSP to burst the the bubble that was Nintendo handheld dominance. Thousands of games were published on the DS, but out of all of them, we've rounded up 25 of the best
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