Right, so… Welcome to Christmas Day! It hasn’t been my favourite day of the year for many years but when I was younger, some of my favourite presents were Consoles and the games that could come with them. So, in this part of my Posting Blitz regarding gaming, I want to talk about the games I have played on consoles. Well… One family of consoles anyway. As well as others that I have come across on other platforms. Including, surprisingly, PC!
Now that family of consoles I’m relatively familiar with comes from Nintendo of all places! It started with the original Nintendo DS when I was 10, followed by the Nintendo DSi and then the Nintendo 3DS. And no, I haven’t evolved into the Nintendo Switch and might wait until Nintendo Switch 2 comes out so I can be right up to date. Unless reputable reviewers deem it trash. In the meantime, I still have my DSi and 3DS, one of the benefits of which is ensuring I can keep on playing the Nintendo DS games I have accumulated over the years.
In fact, one of the first ever games I played on the original DS was Brain Training. I literally tried to keep on training every day, sometimes playing a rotating set of exercises and doing Calculations x20 and x100 on weekends. There was also a Sudoku section which is where I grasped the basics of that puzzle at all.
I then found More Brain Training where, at the very bottom of the Daily Training page was Germ Buster, which might remind you of Dr. Mario if you played games that far back!
Much later, I found Devilish Brain Training. A completely different set of exercises, some I grasped much quicker than others, as well as the best exercises from both original Brain Training games and puzzle games such as Klondike and Spider Solitaire. It also had an Instrumental Break full of all the songs used in the game and original compositions (I think). If you just want to listen to those, I’ve taken the liberty to put them all into one YouTube Playlist, accessible here. Probably the biggest benefit of still having my 3DS on hand and a charger to keep it juiced! Even if the wire covers are worn out.
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