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got a local library/bookstore that has a "take our free shit" window. They had 4 ds games there today, mint condition, like spotless stuff. 99% durability on those babys.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hate to tell you but Wii is retro too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Just 2 more years and Playstation 3 will be retro, if the requirement is being 20 years or older.

[–] can 8 points 6 months ago

Considering I received my first one nearly twenty years ago, yes

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Mandy 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mandy 4 points 6 months ago

well, i certainly am alive, i think, so that should count for something

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Oh no watch out for kangaroos while you learn German. I know I know, watch out for Chamois though

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow even still with manuals, nice find!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

At first I’m like “well my R4 has like every game”

Then I thought “oooOOOo manuals!”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Wow, orcs and elves is actually a great find!

That and Fighting Fantasy where, perhaps, the best first person fantasy games on the system.

[–] Mandy 3 points 6 months ago

yee, orcs and elves was the shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

There's a Avatar game? Can I get the ROM for Lemuroid?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Tons but none of them are good, sadly. Low quality cash grabs

[–] Mandy 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

actually, there is even more, gba, ps2, choose your platform and youll find one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Which is the one you got? Which has the best features?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah, Orcs & Elves, one of my absolute favourite games for the DS!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Orcs and Elves was a fun romp. It was hilarious when you tried to rip the dragon off instead of properly haggling and she just straight up fucking burns you

[–] Mandy 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

man, i wish i knew dungeon crawlers better, id love to play more quaints ones like that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

In terms of Orcs and Elves? Unique.

There was fighting fantasy, Etrian Odyssey, The Dark Spire and ...deep labyrinth (if you want to get REALLY niche)

Edit: Maze of fate. Another niche as hell one

[–] Mandy 1 points 6 months ago

Ill check em out, thanks

But let me elaborate what I meant still

The game never took itself too seriously (drunken dwarfs ghosts are a good example)

The dragon bartering was super fun

Combat was simple but fun(im a smootbrain now, I like simpler stuff)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

In the future. If we find current games. When booted up. "Failed to connect to server" and the game is good as dead.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

DER HERR DER

  • An Ugly American
[–] LaserTurboShark69 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] shundi82 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I've got two theories as to what that poster was trying to say:

Der Herr Der = Durr Hurr Durr

Or:

Der Herr Der = reference to "Die Bart, Die"

But as to the real meaning: Der Herr Der Elemente = The Master Of Elements

[–] Mandy 5 points 6 months ago

this is like looking at a scholar, discovering new sacred texts, trying to explain it to a filthy commoner (like me), while the commoner stares blankly at the bewildered scholar trying to elborate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah so Der Herr Der is master/lord of the in German, and as an ugly American, I was making fun of how it sounds funny. Sucks to explain such a simple joke...

[–] LaserTurboShark69 3 points 6 months ago

Ah I see now, I didn't read the subtitle of the avatar game lol. I thought you were leaving a weird angry comment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's euro-peen for "ableism + america bad."

OH but even better these games appear to be PAL, meaning decidedly not American. Guessing Germany from the German text. So hurr durr right back to him.