Drug myself in the back door a few minutes ago
after spending the day w/our daughter and our 21 mo old grand triplets.
Hubby said I had a message on the answering machine...
Can't you just tell me? don't think I can walk that far
Well, I did, and it was the cheeriest message from
my local Gamestop telling me my preordered
DSi XL would be ready for me to pick up in the morning!

What's a DSi XL, katbear?

It's the new and improved DS. The handheld console.

Draclvr,It's a handheld portable nintendo gaming system.

Katbear, maybe we should post this in that other thread where we were all talking about getting it. I am getting mine tomorrow too. I will see if I can bump up the other thread.It was in casual games.

thracia

Well good news, it's being released tomorrow. Best Buy said they would have it in stock(I did pre-order it)I am so excited!!


thracia

Here ya go, Drac
Meet Nintendo DSi XL
Or as I like to call it...
"Boomers on Wheels"

Will be picking mine up as soon as Gamestop opens. I also got the call yesterday. Got mine this morning. The screen is a nice size. Will make gaming much easier.

I picked mine up earlier today and it is charging. The screen seems so much bigger than my old one (DS Lite). Can't wait to try it out and see what the games look like on it!

Just picked mine up an hour ago and its charged already so I'm doing the configuration and I took a picutre of my cat Cali, so far I'm lovin it. I'm going to play Nancy Drew The Model Mysteries later after dinner.

Got mine as well yesterday. Took a little while to set up the internet, but finally figured it out. Played Brain Age and it said I have the brain of a 71 yo! Although the 70 yo's aroud here are pretty sharp, I'm only 50.I am ejoying the bigger screen very much as well.

thracia

Thracia,

Wow, it is fantastic! I had a DS Lite and this one does so many more things and the bigger screen is great.

Just started playing last night for a little while. I haven't tried to set up the Internet part because my router needs to be reconnected. I think that my son is coming over to do that for me today while I am at work. Hopefully, getting online with it won't be too difficult to do since I have never downloaded games to the DS or Wii. Sounds like you might have had some trouble.

When I first tried to play Brain Age on my old DS, it said that my brain was 80 years old!! A friend said that she got the same message so I was wondering if everyone got the same age in the beginning. You are ahead since it said that you are only 71! Guess I had better get to work!

Gatsbygirl, it wasn't to hard to set up, once I figured what to do. I had to go to advanced setup on the XL, then press and hold some button on the top of my router, while the two communicated. That was it!

Now I don't feel so bad about havig an old brain. Probably got it from playing too many games

thracia

Stupid question probably...but what kind of games are available for DSi XL? I would love to have a handheld player for the car trips etc. And as to the downloadable option, where do you get the downloadable games and where can you download the games from? Okay, I'm older (NOT OLD), and I just needed to ask these questions.

Thanks for the info...I have gone on the site to peruse the console...but I really didn't see many games of my genre there.

Again thanks in advance to all you who already own one!

Jody

Okay, now that they have finally released a
gaming system for us with slightly older eyes,
how about releasing games in a genre` more
to our taste?
Over 50 gamers are quickly becoming a large
part of their buying audience, aren't we?

jody319,katbear50, what kind of games are you interested in? There are adventue games, puzzle games, HO games, etc.(I saw Dream Chronicles, for example at Best Buy for 19.99).You could go to the Gamestop website and look up the games under the different genre's,(there are lots of games of all kinds). Also the downloaded games are through Nintendo, and you have to spend points for them.

thracia