So you now have your DS Lite and unpacked it … now what? Here are some of our picks for the best games the little handheld has to offer (in no particular order):
Mario Kart DS (average score: 91%) The best Mario Kart to date, and quite possibly the best title the Nintendo DS has to offer. You can not even try to realize its full potential without taking this sucker online for a spin (we suggest you learn the art of snaking).
New Super Mario Bros(average score: 89%)Is there any doubt? While many people call the title derivative of the old Mario sidescrollers, the New SMB is 8 world of fun with some great pseudo-3D graphics. There’s no Yoshi, but you do get a multitude of minigames (some of which are pretty entertaining).
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (average score: 89%) Forget about the “seal-drawing” to defeat the bosses, this is yet another classic in a long line of classic handheld Castlevania titles.
Read on for more of our picks.
Nintendogs (average score: 83%): As one of only six titles ever to receive a perfect score from Famitsu, Nintendogs is a no-brainer. Just don’t blame us if you find yourself praising your digital pet in the middle of the subway ride.
Brain Age (average score: 76%) A “game” even your grandmother can enjoy, Brain Age is a series of activities — including Sudoku — to stimulate cerebral activity. Our advice: when taking the Stroop Test, pronounce Blue as “loo.”
Meteos (average score: 88%) From the mind of crazed designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Rez, Lumines), this touch-screen-centric puzzle game is madly addictive once you get used to the controls. We really dig the soundtrack, too.
Phoenix Wright (average score: 81%) You play a defense attorney. It may sound lame, but trust us — its very fun and comical.
Metroid Prime: Hunters (average score: 86%) Once you get the controls down (a bit quirky, but by no means as complex as, say, G.R.A.W.), Hunters becomes an addicting online multiplayer.
So you now have your DS Lite and unpacked it … now what? Here are some of our picks for the best games the little handheld has to offer (in no particular order):
Mario Kart DS (average score: 91%) The best Mario Kart to date, and quite possibly the best title the Nintendo DS has to offer. You can not even try to realize its full potential without taking this sucker online for a spin (we suggest you learn the art of snaking).
New Super Mario Bros(average score: 89%)Is there any doubt? While many people call the title derivative of the old Mario sidescrollers, the New SMB is 8 world of fun with some great pseudo-3D graphics. There’s no Yoshi, but you do get a multitude of minigames (some of which are pretty entertaining).
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (average score: 89%) Forget about the “seal-drawing” to defeat the bosses, this is yet another classic in a long line of classic handheld Castlevania titles.
Read on for more of our picks.
Nintendogs (average score: 83%): As one of only six titles ever to receive a perfect score from Famitsu, Nintendogs is a no-brainer. Just don’t blame us if you find yourself praising your digital pet in the middle of the subway ride.
Brain Age (average score: 76%) A “game” even your grandmother can enjoy, Brain Age is a series of activities — including Sudoku — to stimulate cerebral activity. Our advice: when taking the Stroop Test, pronounce Blue as “loo.”
Meteos (average score: 88%) From the mind of crazed designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Rez, Lumines), this touch-screen-centric puzzle game is madly addictive once you get used to the controls. We really dig the soundtrack, too.
Phoenix Wright (average score: 81%) You play a defense attorney. It may sound lame, but trust us — it is very fun and comical.
Metroid Prime: Hunters (average score: 86%) Once you get the controls down (a bit quirky, but by no means as complex as, say, G.R.A.W.), Hunters becomes an addicting online multiplayer.
So you now have your DS Lite and unpacked it … now what? Here are some of our picks for the best games the little handheld has to offer (in no particular order):
Mario Kart DS (average score: 91%) The best Mario Kart to date, and quite possibly the best title the Nintendo DS has to offer. You can not even try to realize its full potential without taking this sucker online for a spin (we suggest you learn the art of snaking).
New Super Mario Bros(average score: 89%)Is there any doubt? While many people call the title derivative of the old Mario sidescrollers, the New SMB is 8 world of fun with some great pseudo-3D graphics. There’s no Yoshi, but you do get a multitude of minigames (some of which are pretty entertaining).
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (average score: 89%) Forget about the “seal-drawing” to defeat the bosses, this is yet another classic in a long line of classic handheld Castlevania titles.
Read on for more of our picks.
Nintendogs (average score: 83%): As one of only six titles ever to receive a perfect score from Famitsu, Nintendogs is a no-brainer. Just don’t blame us if you find yourself praising your digital pet in the middle of the subway ride.
Brain Age (average score: 76%) A “game” even your grandmother can enjoy, Brain Age is a series of activities — including Sudoku — to stimulate cerebral activity. Our advice: when taking the Stroop Test, pronounce Blue as “loo.”
Meteos (average score: 88%) From the mind of crazed designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Rez, Lumines), this touch-screen-centric puzzle game is madly addictive once you get used to the controls. We really dig the soundtrack, too.
Phoenix Wright (average score: 81%) You play a defense attorney. It may sound lame, but trust us — it is very fun and comical.
Metroid Prime: Hunters (average score: 86%) Once you get the controls down (a bit quirky, but by no means as complex as, say, G.R.A.W.), Hunters becomes an addicting online multiplayer.
So you now have your DS Lite and unpacked it … now what? Here are some of our picks for the best games the little handheld has to offer (in no particular order):
Mario Kart DS (average score: 91%) The best Mario Kart to date, and quite possibly the best title the Nintendo DS has to offer. You can not even try to realize its full potential without taking this sucker online for a spin (we suggest you learn the art of snaking).
New Super Mario Bros(average score: 89%)Is there any doubt? While many people call the title derivative of the old Mario sidescrollers, the New SMB is 8 world of fun with some great pseudo-3D graphics. There’s no Yoshi, but you do get a multitude of minigames (some of which are pretty entertaining).
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (average score: 89%) Forget about the “seal-drawing” to defeat the bosses, this is yet another classic in a long line of classic handheld Castlevania titles.
Read on for more of our picks.
Nintendogs (average score: 83%): As one of only six titles ever to receive a perfect score from Famitsu, Nintendogs is a no-brainer. Just don’t blame us if you find yourself praising your digital pet in the middle of the subway ride.
Brain Age (average score: 76%) A “game” even your grandmother can enjoy, Brain Age is a series of activities — including Sudoku — to stimulate cerebral activity. Our advice: when taking the Stroop Test, pronounce Blue as “loo.”
Meteos (average score: 88%) From the mind of crazed designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Rez, Lumines), this touch-screen-centric puzzle game is madly addictive once you get used to the controls. We really dig the soundtrack, too.
Phoenix Wright (average score: 81%) You play a defense attorney. It may sound lame, but trust us — it is very fun and comical.
Metroid Prime: Hunters (average score: 86%) Once you get the controls down (a bit quirky, but by no means as complex as, say, G.R.A.W.), Hunters becomes an addicting online multiplayer.
Well, it’s been a fun weekend around these parts, with our sudden popularity on Kansas City talk radio and our father’s concerned, confused “The man on the radio says you said Albert Pujols did steroids. Did you say that, Will?” (No, Dad, we didn’t. What did we tell you about sports talk radio, Dad?)
Anyway, we’ve been digging though the angry emails — our favorite was “I hope you get the clap from your cheating wives” — and we’re not sure what much more we can tell you here. If our source is wrong and Mihlfeld isn’t named in the document, we won’t use the source again and you can feel free not to listen to us anytime we quote someone on a steroid name. (Despite the now-established Milhlfeld-Grimsley connection.) If our source is right and Milhfeld is in the document, it’s anything but proof that he’s ever supplied anyone with HGH or anything like that. It just means he’s in the document.
There has been talk of a rush to judgment, and we suppose that’s fair. But no matter what, these names will come out — all of them — and we will all know just how deep everything goes. It’s just a matter of time.
We actually had to look up what a blasting cap was, and apparently there was once a serious concern that children would constantly be stumbling across them and setting them off. As Zembla notes, Mays’ PSA must have made a real difference, because no one has ever heard — ever — of a kid dying from blasting caps. And we’re still not sure what they are.
With all the activity in the world of our St. Louis Cardinals over the last week, one story slipped through the cracks a bit: Terminally tortured “prospect” Rick Ankiel, who is now 26 years old and can hardly be classified a prospect anymore, underwent surgery on his left knee and will miss the rest of this season. Ankiel, as has been well documented, is trying to make it as an outfielder after flaming out from years of wildness, and now that has been postponed for yet another season.
At this point, of course, it seems all over for Ankiel, a sensitive kid whose career has just been doomed by a difficult upbringing, a fragile mental state and the fickle fingers of fate. As we’ve established, we have always had a soft spot in our heart for Ankiel, and we’ve never found any amusement in his struggles and foibles. But we will always, irrationally, perhaps, hold out hope. Rick Ankiel is our sad, tragic tale, and we still believe, hope against hope, that it will end up with a happy ending.
Alice spotted this snap of the geek’s version of the World Cup from the Electronic Football Challenge ‘06. I’m sure many gamers are intrigued by the logic behind a football game that doesn’t require much more effort than rapid wrist movements and lets players argue with the referee over irc. Also, check out the absent keeper from the nearest team: they must have replaced him with a firewall (sorry).
If you’re the type that prefers — slightly more — real football, then you might be pleased to know that Konami dropped us a line to say that they’ve signed (according to the press release) “one of the most dangerous strikers in soccer today”, Adriano “lightning balls” Ribeiro, to be the figurehead of Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007.
So you now have your DS Lite and unpacked it … now what? Here are some of our picks for the best games the little handheld has to offer (in no particular order):
Well, it’s been a fun weekend around these parts, with our sudden popularity on Kansas City talk radio and our father’s concerned, confused “The man on the radio says you said Albert Pujols did steroids. Did you say that, Will?” (No, Dad, we didn’t. What did we tell you about sports talk radio, Dad?) 
With all the activity in the world of our St. Louis Cardinals over the last week, one story slipped through the cracks a bit: Terminally tortured “prospect” Rick Ankiel, who is now 26 years old and can hardly be classified a prospect anymore, 
