Nintendo DS....the poor mans nightmare

Ive been a console owner since i was 5.....nes, gameboy, n64, then xbox.

My parents would NEVER buy me games when i was a kid...i basically got one game a year at xmas, so i only ever got the AAA titles (I still only own about 3 xbox games.)

Now im 24, and have been buying my own games for hte last 5 years.....but i always just rented games. I would rent alllll the time...like 2 or 3 games a week, and beat them and return them......why buy when you can rent....id just buy the games with replayability.

Since Ive bought my DS, i cant stop buying games! Ive had it for a week, and got electroplankton and castlevania.....then i bought kirby....then i bought mario kart and metroid fusion,........now i want advanced wars and phoenix wright.

Im soooo broke, as a college student. I couldnt even afford to buy my DS to begin with...and now i just keep buying games.......even if i could rent them, i dont think i would.

Anyone else out there who has never been a game buyer, and is now binge buying games???

I have parents who only let me buy two games a month!

alchemist007

dude i am right there with you! i got a ds for my girlfriend for xmas. didn't think i would be all that interested in it. i even got it used for $80. then i bought a few games... and like $250 later... i wanna get metroid prime pinball.

it's an addiction!

now i must go smoke!

yep, i bought my DS 2nd hand thinking i would live with just 1 cart(Mario 64 DS). After 5 months i now have a growing library of games.

Wario Ware Touched, Nintendogs, Advance Wars DS, Castlevania, Trauma Center, Phoenix Wright, Trace Memory, Mario& Luigi, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, and I'm planning to get a whole lot more! I need to work more!

lol yea i know what u mean, i bought 1 ds game 5 days in a row each day after i bought my ds hahahaha.  i know exactly what u mean, but the games are sooooooooo fun!!!!

i went even more broke after i got my psp :cry: lol but i love them both :)

i get like $450-$600 a month  im only 16 (some job at a boxing gym), so i can afford to buy most games i want right when i see them.

though im not bragging, since im not really of those people who go around flashing their money, gadgets or whatever.

Ive been a console owner since i was 5.....nes, gameboy, n64, then xbox.

My parents would NEVER buy me games when i was a kid...i basically got one game a year at xmas, so i only ever got the AAA titles (I still only own about 3 xbox games.)

Now im 24, and have been buying my own games for hte last 5 years.....but i always just rented games. I would rent alllll the time...like 2 or 3 games a week, and beat them and return them......why buy when you can rent....id just buy the games with replayability.

Since Ive bought my DS, i cant stop buying games! Ive had it for a week, and got electroplankton and castlevania.....then i bought kirby....then i bought mario kart and metroid fusion,........now i want advanced wars and phoenix wright.

Im soooo broke, as a college student. I couldnt even afford to buy my DS to begin with...and now i just keep buying games.......even if i could rent them, i dont think i would.

Anyone else out there who has never been a game buyer, and is now binge buying games???

adroberts81

Your living the dream.

I have parents who only let me buy two games a month!

alchemist007

do they buy them for you? if they do, dont complain. I have to buy everything for myself

Ive been a console owner since i was 5.....nes, gameboy, n64, then xbox.

My parents would NEVER buy me games when i was a kid...i basically got one game a year at xmas, so i only ever got the AAA titles (I still only own about 3 xbox games.)

Now im 24, and have been buying my own games for hte last 5 years.....but i always just rented games. I would rent alllll the time...like 2 or 3 games a week, and beat them and return them......why buy when you can rent....id just buy the games with replayability.

Since Ive bought my DS, i cant stop buying games! Ive had it for a week, and got electroplankton and castlevania.....then i bought kirby....then i bought mario kart and metroid fusion,........now i want advanced wars and phoenix wright.

Im soooo broke, as a college student. I couldnt even afford to buy my DS to begin with...and now i just keep buying games.......even if i could rent them, i dont think i would.

Anyone else out there who has never been a game buyer, and is now binge buying games???

adroberts81

I have parents who only let me buy two games a month!

alchemist007

$20 says that your a spoiled white kid with parents not relizing that its bad to buy there children everything they want...

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I have parents who only let me buy two games a month!

KrisG7

$20 says that your a spoiled white kid with parents not relizing that its bad to buy there children everything they want...

seriously now. my parents let me get games once every couple of couple of months. even if i have the money, i usually can't even get it then. quit whining

[QUOTE="Cassius128"][QUOTE="Yagami-Iori"]I know what you mean... I'm probably suffering from one of the worst Nintendo DS addictions around... I'm up to 47 DS games and as long as they keep turning out decent games, I'll keep buying. Next on my list... Resident Evil DS, then True Swing Golf, Super Princess Peach, Metroid Prime Hinters, Age of Empires, Worms DS, Tetris DS, and maybe a few others. Yagami-Iori

You may like collecting but seriously, don't buy bubble bobble. I rented it from my local uk game rental place and it blows. Shame really.

But seriously.. If I didnt have a PSP I could easily have bought soooooo many DS games :)

DO NOT RESURRECT THREADS FROM OVER A YEAR AGO!!

Make a new topic if you HAVE to or post in a more recent thread with a similar topic. But before you post in a thread, CHECK THE DATE.

The problem with DS games is they are so cheap. It's like, Why not buy em?

i guess what it boils down to is self-control. obvisouly you're at that age where your parents aren't going to punish you for doing something bad, but you really need to get your priorities straight.

the thing is that for younger audiences it's really easy for just the parents to simply stop buying games for their children, but in this situation it's hard to say other than self-control. desparate times call for desparate measures and i'd consider selling back all your gaming-related items back to a game store or sell them to other students.

whether this is a joke thread or not, most likely someone somewhere is experiencing this i suppose.

i may have one other idea: let's say a game you want is finally released (e.g. psp version of riviera....haha i myself am looking forward to it).  instead of plainly going out to buy said game......give yourself a REASON to go buy the game.  for example, seeing how you're a college student just think to yourself that you'll buy the game ONLY if you accomplish a goal in one of your classes (midterm or something significant).  but then again, this, too, boils down to self-control.

yeah yeah it seems lame, but truthfully i've done that before and the feeling you get is much greater. 

i only have 4 games diamond Mk Ds Megaman battlenetwork 5 and Elite Beat Agents: i buy all of my own stuff because my parents despise video games, they think it destroys brains(lol) yeah i dont have a job so money come in pretty slow like 10$ for mowing my yard crap like that, so anyway i get teh games pretty slow :( (sigh)sargentmrman

 Your efforts to not spam a board are nice, and I personally applaud your ability to search the forums, but perhaps bumping a thread over a year old isn't such a good idea.