14 DAY TRIAL // Remember those Game & Watch devices? The most primitive game the world has ever seen can be found under the word "ball" in the DS' Japanese-English dictionary. Not just explanations on what it was about but the actual application for you to try out. The game is played entirely on the touch screen where you have to hit left and right to keep the two balls balanced in the air.
The 'touch dictionary' card was introduced by Korean Nintendo DS distributor Daiwon CI. This software provides full contents from YBM-published English, Korean-English, Korean, Korean-Japanese, and Japanese-Korean dictionaries, with over 1,630,000 words to choose from.
The Game & Watch series was a line of approximately 59 handheld electronic games made by Nintendo and created by Gunpei Yokoi from 1980 to 1991. They each featured a single game that could be played on an LCD screen, in addition to a clock and an alarm. Wow! It was a watch too...?
Some of the titles available in Game & Watch format were games varying from Mickey Mouse to Balloon Fight as well as several Nintendo staples such as Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda and Mario Bros. The idea came to Gunpei Yokoi as he was traveling on a Bullet Train and saw a bored businessman playing with an LCD calculator by pressing the buttons. Yokoi then thought of the idea for a mini gaming machine for killing time.
So, the DS is not just a toy, but a learning tool as well. Of course this feature isn't of much interest to the players. Few games require good knowledge of linguistics, one of which I can think of is Hotel Dusk: Room 215. Understanding what each character says, or means to say is crucial for the progress.
The Game & Watch games got a renewal with the Game & Watch Gallery series of games for the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. They feature the original ports, as well as new, modernized versions.