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[Unresponsive Bee Victim]

I leave tommorrow morning, my brother and I are going to be together and he has a DS. What are good multiplayer and generally good games that will make a road trip fly by?

 

[demi]

ARe either of you driving? If not, fire up some RPGs for solo time

 

[Tiktaalik]

avoid tappy games for the DS because those are pretty much impossible to play in a moving car (at least on the roads in canada). Stick with DS games that only use the buttons.

 

[artful_dodger]

Playing DS in a moving car = vomit total. I think its the 2 screens that makes it 2x as bad.

 

[Amir0x]

WARIO WARE TWISTED

 

[Unresponsive Bee Victim]

Me and my brother got the backseat, so we'll be free the whole time.

 

[SumGamer]

Mario Kart DS
Ouendan
Tetris DS

 

[Johnas]

Got any old games? Like, Game Boy brick old? Zelda: Link's Awakening.

 

[demi]

Yeah don't play any stylus games, it was almost impossible to play Lost Magic on the airplane for me.

 

[SumGamer]

Playing DS in a moving car = vomit total. I think its the 2 screens that makes it 2x as bad.

It depend on your eye health, I think. I played with my DS on the bus everyday.

 

[Unresponsive Bee Victim]

Got any old games? Like, Game Boy brick old? Zelda: Link's Awakening.

I have that, haven't played it in 7 years, I think it is ripe for a play through.

 

[Emotions]

NSMB
Mario Kart
Tetris
Puyo Pop fever
Bomberman

Those are some good multiplayer single card stylus-less games.

 

[Tiktaalik]

Ouendan is impossible to play in a car unless you live on the plains or something

 

[Johnas]

I have that, haven't played it in 7 years, I think it is ripe for a play through.

Nice. I'm actually replaying Super Mario Land 2 for the first time in ~10 years. Still fun, really easy though.

 

[Jiggy]

* = good multiplayer
** = can be played for extended periods of time
*** = both


Good multiplayer in bursts:
New Super Mario Bros., Kirby and the Amazing Mirror

Good solo for extended periods of time:
Super Mario 64 DS, Advance Wars, Final Fantasy IV, Fire Emblem, Fire Emblem: TSS, Tales of Phantasia

Good multiplayer for extended periods of time:
Tetris DS

Good solo and multiplayer for extended periods of time:
Advance Wars DS, Advance Wars 2, Mario Tennis Power Tour, any Pokemon, Tactics Ogre (IIRC multiplayer is only good if you can somehow get two copies)

 

[Beezy]

Don't play any games that require you to use the stylus.

 

[Joico]

Any of the Metroid's or Castlevania's on GBA are my favorites for long trips. Of course I have Advance Wars, Street Fighter Alpha and a lot of the others already mentioned.

 

[rafman400]

NSMB! beat it on the way to Orlando. Islands of Adventure FTW!

 

[Tarazet]

I was playing Break-Em-All on the bus, and on the rough-and-tumble Highway 280 too, with the stylus... I mean, I wouldn't take Trauma Center, but I can't imagine anything else being a major problem.

 

[loosus]

The multiplayer sucks ass, but I liked New Super Mario Bros. overall. It's a game where you can do a little, find a point to save, and then just shut it off.

Advance Wars, of course, is probably the best multiplayer title on the system.

 

[Tarazet]

The multiplayer sucks ass, but I liked New Super Mario Bros. overall. It's a game where you can do a little, find a point to save, and then just shut it off.

.........................Say what?

Is this the same NSMB where you can only save by clearing a castle, or doing something else that has a major effect on the gameplay progress?

 

[demi]

You can save only if you use 5 coins, or finish a castle. After you beat the game, you can go back and do everything, and save whenever you want.