RetroGaming @lemmy.world Mandy @sh.itjust.works 4 wk. ago

Lucky DS game haul form local librarys "free stuff" section

got a local library/bookstore that has a "take our free shit" window. They had 4 ds games there today, mint condition, like spotless stuff. 99% durability on those babys.

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DS is retro now
- I hate to tell you but Wii is retro too
  
  Just 2 more years and Playstation 3 will be retro, if the requirement is being 20 years or older.
- Considering I received my first one nearly twenty years ago, yes
Oh no it's all German! :)
- oh no, im austrian
  
  Are you ok?
  
  Oh no watch out for kangaroos while you learn German. I know I know, watch out for Chamois though
Wow even still with manuals, nice find!
- At first I’m like “well my R4 has like every game”
  
  Then I thought “oooOOOo manuals!”
Wow, orcs and elves is actually a great find!

That and Fighting Fantasy where, perhaps, the best first person fantasy games on the system.
- yee, orcs and elves was the shit
Oh yeah, Orcs & Elves, one of my absolute favourite games for the DS!
There's a Avatar game? Can I get the ROM for Lemuroid?
- Tons but none of them are good, sadly. Low quality cash grabs
- actually, there is even more, gba, ps2, choose your platform and youll find one
  
  Which is the one you got? Which has the best features?
Orcs and Elves was a fun romp. It was hilarious when you tried to rip the dragon off instead of properly haggling and she just straight up fucking burns you
- man, i wish i knew dungeon crawlers better, id love to play more quaints ones like that
  
  In terms of Orcs and Elves? Unique.
  
  There was fighting fantasy, Etrian Odyssey, The Dark Spire and ...deep labyrinth (if you want to get REALLY niche)
  
  Edit: Maze of fate. Another niche as hell one
In the future. If we find current games. When booted up. "Failed to connect to server" and the game is good as dead.
DER HERR DER

An Ugly American
- Dude what
  
  I've got two theories as to what that poster was trying to say:
  
  Der Herr Der = Durr Hurr Durr
  
  Or:
  
  Der Herr Der = reference to "Die Bart, Die"
  
  But as to the real meaning: Der Herr Der Elemente = The Master Of Elements
  
  It's euro-peen for "ableism + america bad."
  
  OH but even better these games appear to be PAL, meaning decidedly not American. Guessing Germany from the German text. So hurr durr right back to him.
I'd probably just throw them away if they were mind and I ran across them.
- ...why? Is filling up landfills your hobby or something?
- who peed in your cheerios my man? why would you throw them away like that for literally any reason?
  
  Nothing malicious, I just don't find value in them when I factor in trying to sell them locally.

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