Arcade Berg aka. "Learning Game Design with Arcade Berg"

Handhelds… Bleh

I’m a big fan of handheld games. There are some games I really love on the Gameboy, Gameboy Advance and the Nintendo DS for example.

What I like are the games. The gameplay, the graphics and how incredible fun they are, proving that technical restrictions doesn’t have to mean less fun.

However, I don’t like them being “handheld”. Well… Rather; I don’t like having to hold the game in my hands.

Sure, it’s great that you can bring them along. I personally travel a few hours by train every other week and if I’m not using my laptop, it’s a pretty sure bet you’ll find me with my DS.

But when I’m home, I don’t wanna sit in a chair, looking at my own hands, having my arms and neck hurt. I wanna play on my big screen TV, leaning backwards in the sofa.

One of the best peripherals I’ve ever owned was the “Super Gameboy” for the Super Nintendo. It was a cartridge you put in the Super Nintendo console that you then inserted a Gameboy game into, and voila, you could play the games on the TV, using your SNES-controller. That’s how I played pretty much all of my Gameboy games.

I want to be able to do something like that today too. Okay, so the DS touch screen is required, then find a solution or just let me use the actual DS as the controller.

Okay, enough rage blogging. Time for me to go back to the Tales of Monkey Island!