I bought a Nintendo DS Lite yesterday. It’s the first console I’ve owned since the original Game Boy and the mid-90s Sega MegaDrive.

Why, you ask? I’ve been thinking that I needed a fun outlet while I’m commuting to work each day (1.5 hours each way by public transport, I don’t drive). Usually I read (generally non-fiction), I drag out French and Japanese textbooks, and now and then read the Financial Review to keep up with issues in my subject area for work. Not a lot of fun all up.

So Nintendo it is. Due to stock issues here in Australia, it took me a while to find a shop that actually had one (I would have purchased in Tokyo, except they were out of stock of all the pretty coloured consoles) and I couldn’t find Mario Bros. anywhere so I am starting out with Brain Training and Nintendogs.