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**pinknic38** · 08-24-2007, 05:13 PM

yeah so I'm not going to even pretend to be a gamer. I am the exactly opposite of a gamer and still believe the best gaming systems were the original NES (american gladiators and tiny toons = best games ever) followed by the SNES. I got a PS2 (mainly b/c you could play games OR dvds and I didn't have a dvd player) when it first came out and became addicted to grand theft auto but that's about it, I'm more of an outdoorsy girl... or a go to the bar instead of play games girl, but I get in the mood every once in awhile to dust off the PS2 and beat people with ball bats and take their money (if you have no idea what I am talking about, never mind lol).

ANYWAY. So I was perusing amazon.com which if you are deployed is your BEST friend because they ship out here. Anyway I work night shift so I have a lot of free time when I get all my work done. The other dude I work with plays Tiger Woods on his PSP all night so I was looking into the hand held devices so I have something to do over here (because when it rains the internet goes in and out and the winter time is coming soon and heavy snow = shitty internet). so I saw the PSP and the NDS...

I've only ever heard of the PSP so I found some clutch games I'd like- grand theft auto and the sims and hard rock casino... but then I heard PSP sucks and that the sims takes forever to load. but then again it can play movies too.. but it's really freaking expensive

so then I looked at the NDS and it had a million freaking games and is compatible with gameboy advance, and had all my fave SNES games like super mario world and donkey kong country.... so I ended up buying that one and a bunch of games like that and mario kart and freaking DEAL OR NO DEAL (i am very excited about this).

so yeah if anyone has an experience with either system, I'd like to know input cos I have no idea what I am doing when it comes to that stuff, I just wanted something to do, and more for my hard-earned money, but am hoping I didn't make the wrong decision.