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Nintendo DS Lite Pink
This pink Nintendo DS Lite is offered complete in box. Its folding design combines two illuminated screens: a lower touchscreen and an upper display for action or information. Tap or draw on the lower screen with the stylus. Controls also include a directional pad, four action buttons, Start, Select, L and R. A built-in microphone offers another input method. Each game determines how screens, buttons and microphone work together.
DS Lite has a Nintendo DS Game Card slot and a second slot for Game Boy Advance cartridges. GBA games are single-player here; an old GBA link cable cannot be connected. Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges do not work, nor do Nintendo 3DS games. Start DS games from the menu or automatic-start setting. No separate controller is needed because controls are built into the handheld.
Charge the built-in battery with a matching DS Lite power supply; other Nintendo connectors are not automatically compatible. Many cartridges store saves themselves, so changing console differs from changing game. Old Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection services ended. Local wireless play depends on the game and needs a handheld per player. The box and listed components follow this version. The five examples are not automatically included with the pink console.
History
Nintendo introduced DS in Japan and North America in 2004, followed by Europe in March 2005. Two screens, one touch-sensitive, changed how games divided information and controls. Microphone and local wireless added possibilities. Original DS and later DS Lite also retained a GBA slot, letting the new touchscreen concept coexist with part of Nintendo's earlier handheld library.
DS Lite gave that concept a smaller, lighter body and brighter screens in 2006, reaching Europe in June. Nintendo changed presentation and everyday handling while retaining DS cartridges and two screens. Pink is a colour within that hardware family. In games using touch, drawing or microphone, software still determined the player's actions regardless of colour.
The library grew in different directions. New Super Mario Bros. used traditional platforming; Nintendogs centred touch and voice. Animal Crossing ran a village by the clock, and Professor Layton integrated puzzles into a story. This breadth explains differing screen layouts. Later DSi changed the family again, adding cameras and removing GBA. DS Lite retained its own combination.
Five popular Nintendo DS games
New Super Mario Bros. sends Mario through side-scrolling levels with pipes, blocks and enemies. Jump on opponents, find secret exits and collect large Star Coins. Power-ups alter reachable routes; Mega Mushroom temporarily lets Mario walk through many obstacles. Regular buttons control the main adventure, unlike a stylus-only puzzle game. This is not the Wii release with four simultaneous players.
Mario Kart DS combines kart racing with shells and bananas. Choose a driver, master corners and follow the race map on the second screen. Local players each need a compatible handheld. Download Play offers a limited selection with one game; individual cartridges provide more choices. Old Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection closed. This example promises neither current online races nor multiplayer on one shared console.
Animal Crossing: Wild World lets you live in a village changing with time and seasons. Talk to animal neighbours, fish, catch insects and furnish a home. There is no fixed race to a final level; short visits reveal different events. DS divides information and controls across its screens, including touch. Visiting others needs additional systems and the right setup. Old online connectivity is not presented as active.
Professor Layton and the Curious Village follows Layton and Luke through St. Mystere. Conversations and investigation reveal puzzles using logic, shapes, arithmetic and observation. Tap objects and enter answers with the stylus. Hint coins help with difficult riddles as solved tasks advance the story. Reading and thought set the pace. This concerns cartridge puzzles, not promised new downloads of old weekly online puzzles.
Nintendogs lets you care for and train a virtual puppy. Stroke it with the stylus, speak microphone commands and go for walks. Feeding, washing and practice build a routine; contests give training a goal. Editions begin with different breeds but share touch and voice controls. Console colour does not identify an included edition. A cartridge is needed unless the game is separately included in the offer.
