Nintendo DS

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Nintendo DS

Release Date	🇺🇸 NA: November 20th, 2004 🇯🇵 JPN: December 2nd, 2004 🇦🇺 AUS: Feburary 20th, 2005 🇪🇺 EU: March 11th, 2005

Status	Discontinued

Manufacturer

Type	Handheld

Drawn to Life Games
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“Touching is good.”

–Official Nintendo DS slogan

The Nintendo DS is a handheld video game console developed by Nintendo. It first released in 2004 to tremendous success across it's four variations, largely due to the dual screens, one of which was a touch screen. The system housed multiple Drawn to Life games, including the first two canon entries and sole spinoff of the franchise. The system would be succeeded by the Nintendo 3DS in 2011, and eventually discontinued in 2013, with it's final release in October 2014.

Notable Games[edit]

PictoChat (2004)
Super Mario 64 DS (2004)
Mario Kart DS (2005)
Nintendogs (2005)
New Super Mario Bros. (2006)
Metroid Prime Hunters (2006)
Drawn to Life (2007)
SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis (2007)
Lock's Quest (2008)
Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition (2008)
Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter (2009)
SpongeBob's Truth or Square (2009)
Scribblenauts (2009)
Super Scribblenauts (2010)
Drawn to Life Collection (2010)
Pokémon Black Version 2 & White Version 2 (2012) - Final First-Party Release
Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay (2014) - Final Official Release

Trivia[edit]

The Nintendo DS sold a grand total of 153.1M units across it's four variations - making it the best-selling handheld games console of all time.
The system had the majority of the Drawn to Life titles released, housing four of the six games.
- All four variations are compatible with these games.
According to Jeremiah Slazcka, an early build for the first Drawn to Life shown off to Nintendo was shown off via a hacked console.^[1]
- This build was what gave them the approval to develop games for the console.